[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

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

[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

[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

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

[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.

[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

[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

[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

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

[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

[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

[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

[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.

[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

[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,"