newbie help with setting up fedora 11 to use fog

[Melissa Bougor]

Thanks for your help fog is a cloning program that makes images of different machines. I will get you the instructions I have and send them. here is the website for fog. www.fogproject.org I have tryed the su - and it gets me to root but when I download the fog program it doesn't download it just does nothing but if I download to my download folder it works but that is not what the instructions say to do. So I assume it is not downloading to the right place. I watched a video on one of the websites about fedora and it says to hit ctl, alt f2 and that will also get you into root I tried that also. So I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

>>> Ed Landaveri <landaveri at inbox.com> 10/19/2009 6:25 PM >>>
Mellisa,
as advised do 'su -' and follow the instructions on installing fog BTW what is 'fog'?
If you have doubts about not being root type in 'whoami' (remember NOT to type in the quotes)
Let me know what is fog and if have the instructions send it to me. It is an rpm installation or you do unpack a *.tar.bz or gz file on /opt and proceed with the install scripts.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: gene.heskett at verizon.net 
> Sent: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:15:41 -0400
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com 
> Subject: Re: newbie help with setting up fedora 11 to use fog
> 
> On Monday 19 October 2009, Melissa Bougor wrote:
> >I have installed fedora 11 on a 1 tbyte hard drive we bought to use as a
>> server to run fog. The directions in fog tell me to logon as root and
>> then
>> install  fog version 0.28 in the /opt folder. I tried to login in as
>> root
>> using the terminal but fog still would not install into the /opt folder.
>> I
>> have tried to follow all the directions given but with no success in it
>> working. I don't think I have logged onto root right. I am new at  linux
>> so I need someone to walk me through. This would benefit our school
>> district if I can get it to work.
>> 
> >Thanks
> >Melissa
>> 
> Melissa:  one of the more common newbie related mistakes made is when
> doing
> the su to get root privs, the - is left out, so you are still working in
> the
> users environment, albeit with root privs.
> 
> The correct syntax is: su -
> and answer the passwd prompt.  You will then have roots environment,
> including the portions of the $PATH variable that give access to root
> tools.
> 
> I'm not saying that is your problem, but it is a common problem.
> 
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