I am trying to install Linux-Mandrake on a DEC ALPHAstation 255.
I have obtained an install CD from Mr. O's Linux Emporium
I have created a boot disk
I sucessfully boot into milo(Alpha variant of lilo)
I type the following boot command
boot scd0:/boot/instboot.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 mdki
>
> If you type ls at the command line, you will see these attributes listed in
> the left column. "drwxrwxrwx" The first character, if "d" means directory,
> if "-", file. the first "rwx" are the root permissions, the second, group
> permissions, and the third, user permissions. "kfm" is writeab
> Can someone please explain the concept behind ./ in executing a command.
>
The . tells the system to look in the current directory, it is needed when you
are trying to execute a program or shell script and your working directory is
NOT in you path. The PATH environment variable tells the syst
> I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything
> is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with
> Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the
> browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't clo
> have a 10 Gig. Fujitsu hard drive that was formatted using DiskGo. I tried
> using
> fdisk but it only acknowledged that I had 8 Gig.
> After reading a ton of material on hard drives, I came across an article
> about
> Win98SE, hard drives and 3rd party utilities.
> It stated that I should not
> I thought I read here that to manually shutdown you entered "shutdown
> now" at the command line. Doing this, my system then shut down to single
> user mode. Next logon my system complained that it had not been shut down
> properly and did a bunch of self-checks. I obviously didn't re
> LILO is okay and all, but doing a custom install, I noticed other boot
> managers can be installed. How do they rate feature-wise with LILO?
>
> Here's the features near and dear to me:
> Ease of use (especially adding newly compiled kernel--much easier to compile
> than install I found).
> Ea
> hey, you know what? I just realised...that it's possible
> that , in order to copy files over to a floppy...in linux...
> I first must RE-FORMAT the disks for the linux OS...
>
> Is this true? If so, How do I accomplish this?
>
> I haven't needed to copy files to a floppy yet...but
> I feel
>
> have), and for Linux I will be needing "/", "/boot", "/swap", and I will
> probably go ahead and build myself a "/home" while I am at it.
>
Highly reccommend creating a '/home' partition or some other name for
non-system software.
> How does one cut their Windows Partition in lets say
> hal
>
> ...But come on..what is the REASON? Not 'Because windows is made by 'Satans
> Sperm' (Something I certainly DON'T subscribe to BTW!!!).
>
Because Windows does not provide support for reading/writing from any
partitions that are Windows/DOS partitions. There is little chance that
Microsoft w
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