See below.
At 01:59 PM 7/18/99 -0400, Eric P. wrote:
>Hello
>First of all how do you mount a drive on another PC through
>a TCP/IP network?
You don't mount drives; you mount filesystems (not really aquibble). So it
depends on what kind of filesystem it is. Unix/Linux filesystems typically
mount remotely using NFS, while WinXX filesystems typically mount using SMB
(Samba). There are HowTos on both types of mounts.
>Second is there a reason why I shouldn't put my whole drive
>as one partition as /.
Knowledgeable people disagree about this. The only really safe thing to say
is that it depends on the details of your installation. Reasons for dividing
your drive into several partitions include:
1. Security. Some partitions can be set to be read only.
2. Safety - if you separate the user-level aand system-level areas onto
different filesystems, users' files cannot expand to the point where they
interfere with the system's ability to write logs and other needed files.
3. Convenience - updates can be easier if locally created materials are on a
different filesystem from the stuff that normally comes with a distribution.
You can install a new distribution on the "distribution" filesystem, then
jusr remount the local partition.
4. Necessity - sometimes you need a small, separate / partition to get
around the 1024-cylinder limit in LILO.
Some people recommend dividing your drive into more than a half dozen
partitions. Since I'm not one of them, I'll eve it to someone else to give
the details. As a general rule, careful partitioning is more important for
servers than for workstations ... but even this general guideline isn't hard
and fast.
>Third I have 2 pcs in a peer to peer network with 2 working
>ethernet III cards but for some reason one of the pcs when
>it try to ping the other says the network is unreachable
>but in Winblows they both work fine.
>Any help on that would be greatly appreciated.
There is no way to help you with this unless you provide considerably more
in the way of details. For starters, look at the output of "ifconfig" and
"route -n" on both machines and see how they differ. Do the two hosts run
identical distributions, kernels, and modules? Identical NICs? Does the
problem occur in both directions or only one?
>
>Last but not least I just installed kde and set up my user
>to use it but whenever I type startx it starts another
>window manager. I have the .Xclients file in my user folder
>and it should start KDE but it doesn't work. I've even
>tried Loging out and tried rebooting.
This one is outside my expertise, but I suspect that here too you haven't
given enough detail for the list members who are KDE experts to be able to
help you.
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