On 29. jan 2006, at 1.35, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Brian Durant wrote:
> 1) So first, I need to get sudo working.
why cant you just 'su -l' and move upto root ?
Sorry, this probably has something to do with me being a newbie. I
don't know what 'su -l' is or what you mean by "moving up to root".
You will see from my other posting that I got it to work by clearing
the cache: 'rm -fr /var/cache/yum/base':
> 2) "yum check-update" returns something about some file
missing
> in /var/....
yum list updates, thats what you want. There is no such command
check-updates anymore.
Actually, there is. I ran both just to be on the safe die ;-)
> 3) I need to do a total system update with yum. Is there one
> command I can use???
yum update
Yup. Worked like a charm. Thanks.
> 4) kudzo prompting me at boot to remove and add drivers that
> appear to be the same
you can rerun kudzu with various options once the machine is
running, look at the man page for more info
I have done that, but I don't really understand the man page. Newbie
alert!!! Actually, I think the kudzu problem could be directly
related to a usb (driver???) error message I get right at the start
of the boot process.
> 5) no sound
once your machine is updated, run system-config-sound, that will
find and activate your sound card fine.
I ran 'system-config-sound' after having run 'yum check-update', 'yum
list updates' and 'yum update' + a reboot. I got an error message.
Sorry I can't be more specific.
Cheers,
Brian