THURSTON ACKERMAN wrote in a message to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE:

BB>Point is why should you have to 'edit a file' to mount things?  I suppose
BB>there's good reasons for it, but it sure is awkward.  I've tried
BB>some hints from the Knoppix FAQ and some other stuff off the net was 
BB>well re mounting things, but I can't get it to work.

TA> (Kinda like some of the foreplay one has to endure before making a
TA> home run, eh ?-)

Good one!  :-)

BB> WC> I'm running precisely that in Knoppix, same release of Mozilla
BB> WC> as in Win 98 and Kmail is so far to me indistinguishable
BB> WC> from Eudora.

TA> I identify with that but I can't understand why I can't get Kmail
TA> to send mail in my new SuSe 9.0 installation (keeps complaining it
TA> can only send text, no html 8-(

BB> WC> Mozilla however runs better in Knoppix than in my Windows
TA> installation  in the same machine on the same hard drive.

TA> Unfortunately my SuSe 9.0 bundle didn't include Mozilla (my
TA> favorite browser) so I downloaded
TA> "a-1686-pc-linux-mozilla.gnu-1.5-sea,tar.gz" for linux, from the
TA> Mozilla web site, but I can't get it to install in my SuSe. 

Sounds like what you snagged there is what they call a "tarball".

TA> Any idea what foreplay it requires; or where I can get a copy that 
TA> will install out-of-the box like the download of the 
TA> "mozilla32-1.4-installer.exe" that works so well in my win98se
TA> systems please ???

Isn't SuSe an rpm-based setup?  If so,  then you need to be looking for an
rpm file rather than a tarball.

If it were me and I was in that position,  I'd be grabbing the source. 
That way you can compile it against what libraries are installed on your
box.  Getting an rpm for the executable will possibly put you in a
situation where it was compiled against libraries that live on somebody
else's box and create dependency issues (i.e.,  you gotta download some
other rpm files to make it work) and using the source avoids that. 
Assuming of course you have the compiler installed...

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