New To Linux

New to linux

Ok, i intent to write all the articles strait to the point in this BLOG

The idea : I have never used linux before, i am totally new to this operating system, i have to learn allot about it, and im starting to like it), Im sure there are many people just like me who can save time by reading from this blog.

So, i installed linux last night, And have it connected to the internet !

Setup: My brother's compute (connected directly to the internet) is a windows 2000 station, all other computers on the network are windows XP (My sister, dad, mom, other sis), except for mine now, it is running REDHAT 9...

I thought about fedora but it needed a download, and i might consider it when core 2 is released (i have learned all this new cool stuff today), i chose redhat 9 because there is allot of info and help on it everywhere on the internet

Ok, lets get to the real thing...

1- Installation, I simply booted from the first RedHat CD, it asked me some easy questions like what password do you want for root (root is the top administrator) then what exactly will this computer be (the options were something like server, workstation, firewall, or something like that) so i chose custom and then scrolled down and chose install everything, Since i have heard it is much easier to uninstall than install !

--CoOoL i am using mozilla and i just hit a button that asked me to save a screen shot, Il find out what that button was in a minute since it seems so usefull-- Neat stuff
--Found it, its the print screen button---

Install finished, I have had no problems up to now, i started linux then setup went on askng me to create a USER since logging in with root for daily use is not such a good idea....

i created a username, then logged in with root (since there are changes i have to make), opened the mozilla web browser (Mozilla is the original netscape, AOL takes its netscape code from mozilla), then tried to open a website, it didn't work, it halts at sending the request

So lets see whats wrong, My brother is using ICS (internet connection sharing)on his computer, Thats DHCP client, i should obtain the IP automatically and just lke in windows (where i define MTU in the registry

--The checkup, I want to check if i am on the network, I open Nautilus and find WORKGROUP in there, i open that and i see all computers around me, i can access them all and copy files from them, Ok my ethernet card is working fine and i am on the network

-- I open the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (eth0 seems to be my ethernet cards name) and it has the following in it -Seems it is already setup for DHCP those are the contents

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes

Now i add the line
MTU=1400
Still does not work ! even after restarting the network (you can restart the computer if you like but there should only be such a need in linux if you rebuild the kernel)


So what now ? i am going to leave hat MTU there since it looks correct

So lets try to access a website by IP address ! For example lets go to http://207.36.196.245/info2device.com/
It worx ! but if i go to http://www.info2device.com it does not !

Looks to me like something is wrong with my DNS !

I go to the Hat (lke start in windows), System Settings, Network....
I see ETH0 (my ethernet card), And a tab with DNS !

Ok i think i know where the problem is !
So lets set the nameservers to some nameservers i know
I set the first to 216.219.239.7
And second to 216.219.239.8

Those are the nameservers for valuwer (ns1.primarydns.com and ns2.primarydns.com), Ok i plan to chane those soon when i find out how the system works, for now lets keep them this way, I restart the network, open the web browser (first mozilla than konqueror), Okay everything seems to be working fine...

I point my browser to blooger.com and im making this blog

Ok i restarted my computer, i check the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and i find new stuff in there,

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
MTU=1400
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no
TYPE=Ethernet

Sounds to me like the DNS ! Ok, it is cool, as long as it works...

Now i need to setup apache and MySQL and a bunch of things more, I will get to you when i finish and tell you all about my adventure with that ! For now, localhost works if i run the command httpd (yes just the wotd httpd), But it runs with its own config file, i will have to fix everything and il be posting again in a few hours.

posted by Jordan @ 12:56 AM