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In article <421rie$e5c@mojo.eng.umd.edu>,
JiunWoei Tseng <jryan@glue.umd.edu> wrote:
> 1. How do you configure your shell?  Under my user accounts with outside
> servers I had .login, .tcshrc, and other files that I could find and edit.
> Is that the same under the root login?  If so where do I put those files?

Depends on your shell.  root's home is usually / or /root.  Finger root
or read /etc/passwd to find out.

> (I would think that there is already some configuration file somewhere
> because it always loads fortune at bootup and it would not find it.)

Depending on what you mean by "always" and "bootup" and your shell, this
may be /etc/rc*, /etc/profile, /etc/cshrc, ~root/.profile, ~root/.login,
~root/.cshrc, &c.  Look at all of them, just so you know what's there.

> 2. At bootup the kernel would tell me to check my fsck but I see nothing wrong
> with it.  It says to do something before the problem becomes fatal.  ???

It means you need to fsck your file systems.  This is a consequence
of not properly shutting down the system.  Read the manuals about file
system integrity, fsck, and umount.

> 3. I finally got Lilo up and running on the MBR of /dev/hda (my Linux 
> partition os in /dev/hdb1 because hda has DOS and OS/2 on it).  I initially
> tried to get Lilo to recognize my HPFS partition but apparently it didn't
> recognize it and was never mounted.  Once I took that statement out it was
> properly mounted and now runs (with just Linux and DOS statements).  But
> *again* it didn't run properly -- at bootup it just prints "LILO" and runs DOS
> at the end ouf the timeout.  I can't make any choices of what I want to load.

Add the `prompt' command to lilo.conf.  lilo allows finer control as well.

> 4. I can't get my X to work.  I checked my .xinitrc and XF86Config and I dunno
> what's wrong with them.  This is my XF86Config:

Did you read the Hitchhiker's Guide to Video Timings?
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