On Wednesday 13 December 2006 20:12, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 13 December 2006 20:07, John Bowden wrote: > > Hi Folks > > Finally got FC6 installed and updated on primary drive, after some fun > > and games tying to install it on second drive. I'm using the KDE window > > manager and would like to know how to see what hardware FC6 has found and > > configured. I'm not quite a Linux newbie as I have been useing Mandrake / > > Mandriva, (No flaming please ;-)) for a while now, though this is my > > first time using Fedora. > > Hi, John. Flame? <grin> There are a lot of us ex-MDVers here. You'll > soon find your feet. The differences are off-putting at first, but > superficial. > > > I am a bit of a command line newbie in Linux, Mandriva has some very good > > GUI configuration tools which tends to make one very lazy but I don't > > mind using the command line (I have just downloaded a book on how to use > > the command line and will start perusing it as soon as possible) > > You may need to install a couple of extra packages. lshw and dmidecode > will give you huge amounts of info about your system. HTH > > Anne I have installed dmidecode and lshw through the package manager with out any error messages. I tried to run them from a terminal as a user and root but get the same message "no such command". Checked it was installed by doing a search in the package manager with the all radio button checked and they are installed. What am I doing wrong? -- registered Linux user number 414240 Guy Fawkes the only person to enter the Parliament with honest intentions and he was going to blow them up !
