[SLUG] greetings and questions from a young penguin

[Colm Osiris]

hi everybody

some time ago I was asking about installing Yellow Dog Linux on my Mac. 
Well, it's taken ages (won't bore you with the details), but I finally 
have YDL 3.0.1 up and running.

I looked up young penguins, and apparently they're called chicks; well, 
that I'm definitely not!

Now what???! These are some questions I have - any advice gratefully 
received ...

The startup DOS-like thingy (I think it's called Kudzu?) keeps 
complaining about ethernet ports eth0 and eth1, but I don't know why. 
I'm not planning on using ethernet in the near future, so can I disable 
this test?

The KDE interface looks very chunky on my 20" screen - can I change 
this? The screen will display up to 1280 x 1024, though I usually set it 
to 1152 x 870. But over on Linux, it'll only go up to 1024 x 768. It's 
an Apple 'Multiple Scan 20 Display', which was recognised and configured 
during installation. I don't remember an option to set resolutions.

The colours all go funny when I open some applications (eg. Mozilla, 
where the 'dock' goes pink). What can I do about this? Is this related 
to the above problem?

How do I get online (I have a dial-up modem)? At this stage I just want 
to be able to surf the net. I'm not ready to move my email over just 
yet! (Currently using my machine's Mac face!)

How do I get from the Linux OS to the Mac OS without rebooting? The 
other way round is easy, using the 'BootX' control panel, which also 
cuts in at boot time, as soon as the machine has recognised the System.

How do I shutdown Linux, as opposed to just my username, without having 
to reboot to get into the Mac OS, just so I can shut the thing down?

Can I make a shared folder, which can be written to and read by both 
OSes? (Otherwise I'm going to get through an awful lot of CDs!)

Not bad after less than a day, eh! :-)

Regards

Colm Osiris