[newbie] Swap space 128 Mb?
I have read that a swap space partition cannot be larger than 128 Mb, but at the same time it should apparently be 1.5 times the RAM size? Since I have 192 Mb RAM, I guess I should have around 300 Mb swap space? Is this correct? How can I do this if a single swap space cannot be larger than 128 Mb? I seem to have read somewhere that one may have several 128 Mb swap spaces, and then tie them together somehow. How do I do this? Is there some instruction available on line, where I can read how I should do this? Thank you for your help. Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] /, /usr, and /opt?
Thank you Emilio. Some people claim that third-party software ends up in /opt however, and if I don't make a separate partition for /opt I guess that is created under /. If / is too small this may cause it to be full rather quickly, while /usr remains comparatively empty. Of course, if this is not true your advice makes a lot of sense. I would just like to see some numbes on how many megabytes are installed in the different partitions in an average installation with a modest addition of third-party software, so that I know what to expect. Thank you again. /Ian From: "Emilio Correa" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I will tell you how I create my partitions and thats ok for me: My main partition (hda) has about 3 GB, and then in the installation I created: / (500 MB) (here is important to give space for /temp ) /usr (2 GB) /swap (128 MB) (depending of your RAM memory) /local (370 MB) (personal files of users) I read that all the soft you will install should be in /usr/local You can change the size of any partition with "Partition Magic" without reinstalling all! (I could do it ) If you can't shout me. good luck I assume that "partition magic" is a Windows application? I don't know anything about windows. I got my PC just to run Linux on it. It sounds like a good program though. Perhaps I should try to get hold of it. Emilio Correa e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.tuayuda.com.ar (Informática/Listas de Correo) __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Red Hat partition examples?
From: "Potts, Ross" [EMAIL PROTECTED] You will be wasting a lot of space. / only needs about 50 MB. I sent this out last week. Try to find a Red Hat 5.0 install book and look up its examples. I have been searching extensively at the Red Hat site to try to find the examples you mention, but I have been unable to find them. I don't know how to get hold of the paper version. At the library it's been pre-ordered for at least a year on, nobody I know has it, and I don't have the money to buy it. If somebody on this list has that book, perhaps he or she could post those examples? This would be very appreciated. Thank you. Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Partition sizes?
Steve, If his only partitions for linux (other than swap) are / and /usr (I believe he meant/ rather than /root), Yes, that is indeed what I meant. I am sorry that I expressed myself so badly. won't /opt be inside the / partition? That's the usual place for te third party software, like SO he's thinking of using. Might that not make / fill up more quickly. That is my concern. Are there any figures avaiable on how much space is taken up in every file system in the default installation? What I mean is, are there any numbers for how big the /, the /usr, the /etc, the /opt, the /var etc. partitions absolutely have to be in order to accomodate a full installation, everything included? Perhaps a separate /opt and /home might help. any thoughts? Mike Perhaps I should make separate /etc, /var, /opt, /usr, /, and so on, for every file system? I'd feel pretty silly if I had made one partition too small and eventually had to reformat and reinstall the entire system, just because a partition turned out to be too small. That is why I want to do this right from the beginning. Some of the applications I plan to install I guess will end up in /usr. I thought this was where all third-party software was installed, but apparently some will end up in /opt? Is this true? In that case perhaps I should make a separate /opt instead of a separate /usr? I am grateful for all help. Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [Re: [newbie] /usr or /root?]
Steve, If his only partitions for linux (other than swap) are / and /usr (I believe he meant/ rather than /root), Yes, that is indeed what I meant. I am sorry that I expressed myself so badly. won't /opt be inside the / partition? That's the usual place for te third party software, like SO he's thinking of using. Might that not make / fill up more quickly. That is my concern. Are there any figures avaiable on how much space is taken up in every file system in the default installation? What I mean is, are there any numbers for how big the /, the /usr, the /etc, the /opt, the /var etc. partitions absolutely have to be in order to accomodate a full installation, everything included? Perhaps a separate /opt and /home might help. any thoughts? Mike Perhaps I should make separate /etc, /var, /opt, /usr, /, and so on, for every file system? I'd feel pretty silly if I had made one partition too small and eventually had to reformat and reinstall the entire system, just because a partition turned out to be too small. That is why I want to do this right from the beginning. Some of the applications I plan to install I guess will end up in /usr. I thought this was where all third-party software was installed, but apparently some will end up in /opt? Is this true? In that case perhaps I should make a separate /opt instead of a separate /usr? I am grateful for all help. Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Internet access?
The other week somebody posted a link to a page with advice on how to get connected to the Internet using Linux. I stupidly clicked on "delete" before I realized that I could really use that kind of information. If somebody could please repost that link I would be very grateful. Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] /usr or /root?
Having allocated disk space for the /home slice, I have about three GBs left on the disk on which I aim to install Mandrake. Should I allocate a 2 GB partition for the /root slice and a 1 GB partition for the /usr slice, or should I allocate a 1 GB partition for the /root slice and a 2 GB partition for the /usr slice? What do you think? How much space do the /usr and the /root file systems occupy by default? I aim to install some additional software -- VMware, SO, and some other applications. I assume these will end up in /usr, so I should probably reserve space for them. I am grateful for all help. Ian PS. The other week somebody posted a link to a page with advice on how to get connected to the Internet using Linux. I stupidly clicked on "delete" before I realized that I could really use that kind of information. If somebody could please repost that link I would be very grateful. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Internet HOWTO?
A couple of days ago somebody posted an address to a page with instructions on how to get out on the internet with Linux. I have lost that link. Could you please post it again. Thank you. /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Internet HOWTO?
A couple of days ago somebody posted an address to a page with instructions on how to get out on the internet with Linux. I have lost that link. Could you please post it again. Thank you. /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Too much lsd?
From: Dan Ferris [EMAIL PROTECTED] In your .bash_profile file, or whatever shell you use, add the following: alias ls='ls -Fa' then whenever you type ls, it will actually do an ls -Fa. Dan Yes, that is a good idea, but what do I do when I want to do a mere ls? I would like to keep that possibilty as well. /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Setting the time in Mandrake?
Linux-Mandrake claims that the time is one hour more than the time in the bios (which is the correct time). Setting the correct time with the "date" command is unsatisfactory, since the erroneous time is displayed again after the next reboot. Of course I could keep on changing the time in the bios depending on which operating system I use, but it seems unlikely that this is the only way. How do I set the correct time permanently? I assume that there must be a way to do so? Thank You. /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Set the time in Mandrake?
Linux-Mandrake claims that the time is one hour more than the time set in the bios (which is the correct time). Setting the correct time with the "date" command is unsatisfactory, since the erroneous time is displayed again after the next reboot. How do I set the correct time permanently? Thank You. /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Set the time in Mandrake?
Linux-Mandrake claims that the time is one hour more than the time set in the bios (which is the correct time). Setting the correct time with the "date" command is unsatisfactory, since the erroneous time is displayed again after the next reboot. How do I set the correct time permanently? Thank You. /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] chmod/chown problems
Is there some special trick to chmoding and chowning in Linux-Mandrake? The reason I ask is that I can't get either to work. One partition of my hard disk, named "/common," is dedicated to files I would like all users to be able to share. Unfortunately, its permissions are drwxr-xr-x. I would prefer them to be drwxrwxrwx. You'd think that "chmod 777 common" would take care of that. When I use the chmod command, though, exactly nothing happens. I also have some files which I don't think it's necessary to be root to write to. As it is, they belong to root, and since I can't chmod them, I have to be root to work with them. Normally, I'd solve this with the chown command, but that doesn't work either. When I try the chown command at least something happens however: I get an error message saying "Operation not permitted." Apparently either chmod and chown are used differently in Linux than in Unix, or there is something wrong with my system. Does anybody have any suggestions? Thank You. /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Floppy problems
I have a floppy which I use daily in a Solaris 7 environment. When I try to use it in Linux-Mandrake it is usually mounted as "read-only," forcing me to copy the files to the hard disk before I can work with them. Then I have to copy them to another floppy, and copy them back to the original floppy using Solaris. Occasionally the floppy mounts as read/write however, for no reason I can discern. If I then make any changes to a file, instead of getting a changed file, I get a new file with the same name -- only in capital letters and with a tilde after the name. Why does Linux-Mandrake create a new file with a tilde after the name. Why does it change the name to capital letters. Is there some way to get it to stop doing this? Thank You. /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Too much lsd?
In Solaris I like to keep a little script containing merely the string "ls -Fa" in the /bin directory, enabling me to give this command merely by invoking the name of the script: lsd. In Linux-Mandrake the command lsd already seems to exist. It does not differ from the command "ls," without any options, in any way I can discern however. Nor am I able to find any lsd in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin. Would it still be possible for me to put my little script in /usr/bin, or would that f**k up the system, since the command already exists? Thank You. /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
