From: jiangh@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Howard C Jiang) Subject: General FAQ-Type Questions ... Date: 7 Apr 1993 00:30:49 GMT
Of all the text files (FAQs or otherwise) I could get my hands on, I couldn't
find (or perhaps they were buried) answers to the following questions that I, a
newbie, have:
1. Does Linux have any error masking/maintenace feature when formatting/running
it on a hard disk. (In my case, I want to try to install it onto a IDE drive
without error correcting capabilities built-in.. like an MFM and such, first)
2. When trying to mount a file system, it says that only a maximum size of
65536 (if I remember correctly) blocks is allowed. Does it matter how big
I can make partitions, or if I just leave it as one chunk?
3. When installing Linux to a Linux-dedicated drive, is a boot-switcher or
sector editor still necessary to change the boot drive?
4. What's the difference between the man pages and separate documentation
disk in the SLS release?
Thanks.
Howard