From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) Subject: Re: [Q] setup+misc ;) Date: 9 May 1993 21:20:39 GMT
> Hi everyone,
> I read the FAQ and still am unsure about some of the linux setups:-
> 1) It was mentioned in the faq saying that Linux can only handles up to
> 62 meg partitions, and some are saying that make the whole hardrive
> into one partition, do they mean the linux extended (e instead of p
> in fdisk) can i boot off this extended partition? any cons?
The minix filesystem is restricted to 64MB; the other filesystems are
currently limited to 4GB and should support up to a theoretical
maximum of 2TB.
You don't need to worry about extended partitions unless you want more
than 4 partitions. This should not be necessary if you are using a
filesystem capable of large partitions.
Don't be confused by the overloading of the word "extended"; extended
filesystems are entirely separate from extended partitions. You can
happily run an extended filesystem on a primary (ie. non-extended)
partition.
> 2) LILO- How do i co-exist dos and linux using lilo?? I couldn't get back
> to dos once i let linux take over using lilo in making the boot diskette.
> I want to be able to boot off from both.
Read the LILO docs - it's not to difficult, but you do need to take
care, so it is better to read them and know what you're doing than to
just read a quick summary and ruin your setup if anything goes wrong.
The LILO distribution includes the ASCII source for the LaTeX
documentation if you can't print out the dvi or postscript docs.
> 3) easy one: how can i find out how much disk space i have left???
"df"
> 4) is find suppose to find all the sub directories for the file i name??
> if not, is there a command that does that??
Find will find all occurences of a matching filename within an entire
subdirectory tree. "ls -R" will list all files in all subdirectories
of a given directory.
> 5) SLIP: what is it capable of??
> Can I display all the X-windows stuffs via SLIP on my computer?
> (ie, can i redirect displays from a server via SLIP onto my computer)
> can i ftp or telnet using SLIP?? how?
SLIP is a fully functional IP link over a serial port. *IF* you can
get it to work (the old code is dodgy, the new code is under test, the
k9aq code is supposed to be reasonably stable but isn't a kernel
implementation), then you can do everything over it that you can over
ethernet.
It's not absolutely straightforward - read the documentation. If you
can't find it, wait for an announcement of the new network code.
> 6) Lastly, is there some way that i can put a background process in a
> different window??
> eg, say I telnet from my computer and ran Emacs, can I make Emacs
> to appear in a different window?
Not under telnet. You might want to check out the "term" program,
which can multiplex several telnet-style remote shells (in different
windows if you want) over a single dialup line.
Cheers,
Stephen Tweedie.