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Hello all, Thanks for your help with mounting windows shares and
finding a gigabit NIC card. It turns out that NetGear GA311 Gigabit NICs are
supported by Redhat Enterprise Linux v3.1. I was able to access Windows shares
via smb://windows_machine/share_name inside Konquerer and Nautilus. I was also
able to mount the shares via mount –t smb . . . in xterm. Now I just have
to figure out how to make the computer automatically mount the shares on boot
up or at least login. (I’m guessing there is a shell script file executed
on boot up or login.) Say, is there any consensus on what “brand” or
distribution of Linux is best for the uninitiated (me) trying to get a cluster
up and going? I’ve seen Debian and Redhat so far. I’ve heard one
Linux enthusiast say Debian rules. You have to know what you are doing, but you
can do it. Plus it’s free! But I couldn’t see how to update
it or download security patches or new packages let alone install them. On the other hand, Redhat Enterprise Linux costs money, but
it’s cheap for students. (It’s only $25 for the download Desktop
version or $50 for the download AS server version for academic subscriptions
off of Redhat.com.) It comes with a nice automatic update feature and a year’s
worth of updates and tech support. I suppose there are more limits to it than
Debian has. It at least feels more MS Windowsy (a byword to some in the Linux community)
in that you install it and run it and it does a lot of the configuration and
controls itself. Is it reasonable to think that I could “ease”
into the Linux world by starting with Redhat and eventually going to Debian? Jacob Fugal jpfugal@xxxxxxx |