No more gui configuration... welcome to slack

[rbrimhall]

Hi,
I've searched through the libraries and done a few searches for specific information on configuring stuff w/o the gui... but I have to say I'm lost. Didn't realize how much RH spoils you with those little wizards. Anyways, could someone just point out where most of the config files are found? I've found a great deal in /etc... is this where most reside? Specifically I'm looking for a means to have my eth0 start up at boot time... in RH the redhat-network-config did this job but where was that gui writing to? Is there some guide that states where the RH wizards were actually modifying? Services is another (I know there are plenty of posts on this topic though so I'm less worried about that)... Sorry if this is a "newbie" post... if you just tell me to RTFM could you at least tell me which ones? Thanks!

[mdwatts]

I'm not sure about Slack though most network scripts should be in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

[rbrimhall]

So, is sysconfig literally "system configuration"? Are most of the config files I'm looking for in here?

On another note, in the Xfree86.config file... how do you tell the server how much ram to use? I don't see any commented stuff for this near my video card info...

thanks for the help...

I've been messing around with mtu/mru stuff but still no luck posting at home...

[kam]

You may want to check out the Slackware book (http://slackware.com/book/)

[mdwatts]

From the XF86Config manpage (man XF86Config)


VideoRam mem
This optional entry specifies the amount of video ram that is installed on
the graphics board. This is measured in kBytes. In most cases this is not
required because the X server probes the graphics board to determine this
quantity. The driver-specific documentation should indicate when it might
be needed.


And yes 'sysconfig' would be system configuration. Have a look in there to see what configs are available.

[rbrimhall]

Originally posted by kam
You may want to check out the Slackware book (http://slackware.com/book/)

Yeah, I have. It's helped me through a lot. But the network section is for pcmcia and not ethernet... my card is configured but I'm not sure how to enable dhcp on boot...

[rbrimhall]

Originally posted by mdwatts
From the XF86Config manpage (man XF86Config)



And yes 'sysconfig' would be system configuration. Have a look in there to see what configs are available.

I've seen that but this is a crappy card that "shares" memory with the rest of the system (S3 Twister)... so, in my bios I have it set to 32mb... I'll try a Superprobe to see if it's being recognized but I seem to remember that it isn't...

[Hayl]

log onto the #justlinux irc channel on freenode and look for Darkbolt. He runs slack and can proably help you out.

[Darkbolt]

File that sets up your network card at startup is /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
the XF86Config is in /etc/X11/XF86Config

All of your config files will be somewhere in /etc, and most of them have names in respect to what they do, so its easy to figure out what they do.

If you need more help, you can look at the slack book, as was previously mentioned, so some searches on JL, and google, and go into the JustLinux irc channel (details in my sig)

(edit: for some reason i called the file XFree86Config...)

[rbrimhall]

Thanks all!