On 06/30/2000 Evan wrote:

>My RedHat dual boot went fairly smoothly. I have chosen to start Linux by using a boot disk. But wend Linux starts to
> load my bios virus scanner says I have a virus. Scanner is Chiptrend. Is this a known problem?

Well, first of all, CONGRATULATIONS! Installing Linux was the smartest thing you've ever done! ;-)

Turn Bios virus scanning off. It doesn't do any good any way (can't keep definitions up to date).
It is a requirement for Linux to turn it off (the Bios thinks Linux is a virus - now that's REALLY a Microsoftism....)

Before long, you will want to let LILO (Linux boot loader) take over. Then you will want to copy LILO to the
MBR. To do that, you use the /bin/lilo command. In general, lilo will do a much better job of boot loading than
other boot loaders, especially NT's! There really isn't much danger in doing it, because lilo will make a copy
of the original mbr boot blocks and there's an invocation of lilo to remove lilo from the mbr and restore the
original in case you chicken out! :-)

The lilo configuration file is: /etc/lilo.conf
With an editor, you can easily switch which OS is your default booting OS, and what strings to type in
to boot the OS. Then you run the /bin/lilo -v (verbose switch is kind of nice) command to write the changes out to the mbr.

What are you using for an editor? Many people learn vi, because you'll find it on any Unix/Linux machine and
you really only have to remember about 6 or 7 commands. emax is the traditional heavy programmer's editor
(it's more than just an editor - it's a whole environment...) Pico is the editor that comes with pine, if you installed
the pine mail reader package. It's pretty simple. My favorite for newbies, however, is: joe
(You have to install the joe package). joe is a WYSWIG editor, very simple. You should learn vi, but until
you do, there's joe!

Also, there are pagers (text file page viewers): more and less. Less is more only it's more! Less can travel
backwards (b command) as well as forwards. (Now there are versions of more out there that are less -
i.e. they will also allow you to go backward, but not all mores are less!) :-) Did you get it? :-)

Enjoy!

-Jerry