On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Nauman ul-Haque was reputed to have said:
> hi,
> I ve got some problems here lets see if some one can help me.
>
> 1). First of all, I was wondering if I run out of hardisk space on my linux
> box, what do I have to do then? can i get another hard disk and mount my
> /usr or /home on it? if so, I think all I have to do is copy my /usr on the
> new Hard disk and thats all, now what I dont know is, how do I make the /usr
> mounted on the new HDD every time Reboot? WHat i know is that I can mount
> the new HDD in some directory, give the entry in fstab and then make a link
> of /usr to /newDirectory/WhereHardDiskIsMounted, please tell me if this is
> the right process or if there is more sophisticated ways?
After you add the mount points to the /etc/fstab file they will mount
automatically upon boot, provided you specify them as automount. Follow
the examples of the other linux ext2 fielsystem entries in the fstab
file. Also 'man fstab' and 'man mount'.
> 2). Secondly I complied the new kernel 2.2.16, everything works very fine,
> except this problem, I did enable the APM support but my computer's power
> just wont shutoff when I "shutdown" it. There were about three to four
> suboptions in the APM options while configuring the kernel, I enabled the
> APM and let the others be default but it didnt work either, then I chose an
> option which seemed more like the solution to my problem, but that didnt
> work either. Now I cant go on trying all the permutations and combinations,
> so if please some one could tell me what option is that which I have to
> enable.
I use loadlin to boot Linux as booting with lilo presents a problem with
vmware (it did for me anyway). I added the string "apm=power-off" after
the kernel name on the command line. When using lilo, I believe this
would be put in the 'append' line in /etc/lilo.conf. Then you would type
'lilo' as root to have it take effect before re-booting.
> 3) If please some one could tell me how can I set the "numlock" option "on"
> by default? so that every time I log on the NumLock is on by default.
This would depend on which distribution you are running. I run SuSE, and
there is a parm in the /etc/rc.config file which you manually edit and
change the line "KBD_NUMLOCK=no" to ..."=yes". Dunno about other
distro's.
> 4). Where can I find some real good Administrator's guide on internet? I
> want to learn about runing and mintaining linux boxes as server and as
> workstations. I cant afford to order some books from amazon.com but I want
> to learn more about administarting the systems and their security, so if
> some one can refer me to some good material please.
See the online "Howto" doc's - most distro's put it in /usr/doc/howto.
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