Newbie needing help

[Steve Brueckner]

SELinux can really complicate matters for Linux newbies.  I recommend you
disable it on install.  This may clear up problems 1 through 3.

Problem 4 is often due to updates defaulting to the same server.  After you
reinstall, check out this webpage on how to change your configuration files
to use a mirror instead of the overloaded redhat servers:

http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror

I'm sure you'll still have issues after you do these two things, but try
them first then come back to us.

Good luck; Linux is hard to learn but very gratifying once you get it!

 - Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: M A L Wraight [mailto:mawraight at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 5:55 PM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Newbie needing help

Sorry to bother you all, but I can't read anymore.

I am a complete newbie to Linux and trying to learn it on my own. Bought
"A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux: Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux", 2nd ed. Came with installation for 2.6 Kernel. I followed steps
except I used $linux selinux for install. Now I am having issues.

1. Can only sign on with the root account - other account "john" created
fails

2. Signed in as root, I can't browse /home/john

3. Log in fine with KDE but Gnome crashes and freezes

4. up2date has lots of potential updates, but I have been unable to download
or
install a single one.

I have reinstalled (since I couldn't get very far) but the same issues
appear.
Any help would be appreciated.

Signed,

Aaron Wraight

Windows user trying Linux


		
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