[XCSSA] CORRECTION: Feb 18th XCSSA Meeting: Encryption HOWTO Night! (7pm SAC Nail Tech Center)

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

> Actually, due to a change in schedules, I'm now going to be attending
> in person.
> 
> I've got a DVI slide deck but my only laptop is a Microsoft machine
> (work laptop; we're still in the process of converting them to Linux).
> 
> After trying to find a suitable program for viewing DVI slideshows on
> Windows, I've given up.
> 
> I've got VMWare on it with a RHEL3 install (yes, it's old, but so are
> our production machines) and I'm having two problems:
> 
> 1) I can't make the resolution of the guest higher than 800x600, even
> in fullscreen.
> 
> 2) I can't seem to add any software because I don't have some kind of
> RHN login.
> 
> Can anyone help me on this?
> 
> I'd like to get this working in the next 2 hours but can't really drive
> down there until I have it squared away.

In order of increasing difficulty, considering your time constraints:
	1 - Consider giving your DVI slides to another member of the group with 
an already working linux laptop, such tweeks or myself.  We could hook 
up to the projector and then you could still give your presentation.
	2 - Consider downloading, burning, and rebooting onto a Live CD.  If 
you want to stick with something based on RHEL, I recommend Scientific 
Linux (https://www.scientificlinux.org/download/) as I find their live 
cd's in particular tend to work a little better than those from CentOS. 
  If it doesn't have to be RHEL based then I'd go with something like 
"Linux Mint" or "Mepis Linux", based on Ubuntu and Debian respectively, 
but pre-loaded with all the extra drivers you usually have to find 
separately.
	3 - As for adding software to RHEL without RHN, I would visit a mirror 
of CentOS and install the yum packages for access to their entire 
repositories, which are completely compatible with the originals from 
Red Hat. i.e. -
http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/3/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/yum-2.0.8-2.centos3.noarch.rpm
http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/3/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/centos-yumconf-1-11.noarch.rpm 

	4 - You should be able to run "redhat-config-xfree86" to get a basic 
working setup.  You may need to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config by hand to 
specify it to use the "vmware" driver.  Unfortunately there isn't as 
much autodetection in XFree86 as there is in Xorg, but you should still 
be able to specify standard resolutions in the "Display" subsection of 
the "Screen" section using the "Modes" line, such as:

	Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

In any case, good luck! and we'll see you this evening...


  - Mike Roberts