RE: [newbie] Partitions in Linux

1999-08-25 Thread Aaron W.
On a PC with and Intel/Intel clone chip you can have 4 real partitions. With that said, you are not limited to 4 partitions. You can also have 3 partitions and one extended partition. The extended partition is used to set up logical partitions(or logical drives if you are coming from the

Re: [newbie] Partition Problems

1999-08-05 Thread Aaron W.
Hi folks: I used the Partition Magic (limited version from Mandrake-Linux 6.0 - MacMillian Publishing) to partition my drive. It worked fine then, I then told Partition Magic to delete the partition used by Linux. It says the partition was successfully deleted, yet when I go to create a new

RE: [newbie] speaking of passwords

1999-07-14 Thread Aaron W.
At 08:42 PM 7/14/99 -0500, you wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Jackal wrote: login as root and change the password for the user (unless it is the root password that u forgot). If it IS the root password that u forgot then u have to rebbot into single mode and change the root passwd from

[newbie] While were talking about bootdisks

1999-03-28 Thread Aaron W.
I make a boot disk by using rdev and then simply coping the kernel to the floppy. Here is the steps: Tell the kernel your root partition with rdev "location of kernel" "location of root partition" example- rdev /boot/vmlinuz2.0.36 /dev/fd0 Copy the kenel to a floppy with cp