[Coco] My Linux is now online!

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that Roger Taylor may have mentioned these words:

>Red Hat Linux 9.0 is ->  ONLINE !!!!

Neat!

>Google came up in Mozilla after I unchecked the "Device Alias Number = 1" 
>setting in the Ethernet Device menu.

Oh, you're running the ooeyGUI... Never used that in RH9 - all I ever did 
was servers with it, and ditched it after FC came out.

For ooey-GUI stuff, I prefer an older SuSE for older (1-2 year) hardware - 
YaST is rather easy to use...

>I have some questions:
>
>What tools do I need for reading/writing reliable 360K CoCo floppy disks 
>from Linux,

I've never done it, but IIRC it's not _insanely_ difficult, for varying 
values of insanely. ;-)

>  and how well is the support for my 5.25" clunkers?

Awesome. It should read/write just about anything.

>How hard is it to get Samba (Windows<->Linux file sharing?) to work under 
>Red Hat 9?

Which windows.... XP? SMB networking is a rather moving target, and to run 
networking w/newer Winders OSs, you'll need a newer Samba implementation. 
Yes, they've changed yet again for Vista, I don't know if there's a Vista 
compatible samba yet... but XP and lower should work fine with the latest 
Samba.

>I just issued "smbd -V" and it reports Version 2.2.7a so I guess I have it 
>installed.  I remember adding all the packages I could when I first 
>installed RH from the CDs.

At the main samba site, they have _almost_ the latest Samba (version 
3.0.24) available for RH9 as an RPM here:

http://us4.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/RedHat/RPMS/i386/9.0/

If memory serves (which usually doesn't - my DRAM refresh cycles are spotty 
at best lately) rpm -U nameofnewersambarpmpackage.rpm should update the 
samba package - but man rpm would be prudent before trying that.

;-)

HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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Roger "Merch" Merchberger  --  SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
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