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Q: I must congratulate all of you at it@tt for your magnificent effort. Particularly your mailbox section have been of immense help to me. I have a Celeron with 64 MB RAM with Win98SE. I want to install Linux on my computer without deleting my window's partition.For this I changed my boot sequence and booted my computer from my CD-ROM. I tried the Disk Druid option and tried to set the Linux swap and Linux partition. But I was unable to do so, as it gave "There is not enough hard space.." Please suggest how I can proceed with the installation. Is it true that if I give any wrong information about my hardware during Linux Installation then it could damage the hardware?
Sudiphui
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A: Giving incorrect information during the RedHat installation will not do much damage to the hardware of your system. The maximum that could occur is a CRT burnout. But that occurs rarely and generally due to vastly incorrect Horizontal and Vertical refresh Frequencies. Try partitioning your system using fdisk or if you have a *nix system close at hand, you could use cfdisk to partition your system. that apart, the 'Product Guide' section tends to exactly this problem. You could watch the PG space in the future Issues to see the solution in a detailed format.

Q: I have a PIII/733,with 64 MB RAM & Windows 98SE. Recently I install Linux RedHat 6. But I am not getting X windows. Tell me how to configure X Windows. Do you know what is the compilation command and extension of cpp files in Linux? In Unix I used cxx to compile and used .cpp extension. But in Linux I am not able to compile with cxx for the cpp file.
Niladri Chakraborty
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A: The compilation command for a file in C/C++ is: cc <filename> where filename is the name of the file to be compiled. If you wish to get a step by step help on this command, just type: cc -- help or man cc in the Linux command prompt. Regarding your problem about configuring X on your system, please refer to earlier replies in Mailbox (www.careermosaicindia.com/itattt/) about this much asked question. That apart, you will see your problem featured in the 'Product Guide' section during the Installation of any and all favours of Linux.

Q: Are Unix and Linux systems not infected by viruses. If not, why? I have a Pentium I with 16 MB EDO RAM . Will installing DRAM lead to conflicts?
Dipankar Guha
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A: Unix/Linux systems do get infected by viruses. Just that they get infected very rarely due to the systems built in ability to run system processes separately from the user processes. The security in Linux and Unix systems doesn't permit a user process to gain enough of a priority to gain system level access. That is why the probability of finding an infected system is so low. Installing two differing RAM types will result in only one of the RAM types being detected and used. While leading to an exponential heating of the RAM connecting nodes with the Motherboard.

Q: With reference to Sudipta Mukherjee's mail (it@tt, 8 May 01), I have the following solution to offer. I faced the similar problem with Windows and Linux. Changing the location in dialing properties to United States of America and area code to 819, also unchecking wait for dial tone I was able to dial. But still I cannot dial from Linux. If there is any solution apart from changing my telephone line please help.
Arjun Pal
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A: When you uncheck the "Wait For Dialtone" option in Windows basically sets the initialisation string for the modem to "ATX" which is the default "don't wait for dial tone before dialing" initialisation string for all AT&T compatible modems. That's exactly what you'll have to do if your Modem says that it couldn't detect a dial tone in Linux.

To get an accurate fix on your Linux modem problem you need to update us on your system. Are you working in graphical mode or are you dialling through rhdialler, Kdial, mgetty, etc. Also what is the exact error you get.

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