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- Subject: I need help on install and config for linux
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.143923.2003@msus1.msus.edu>
- From: trix@krypton.mankato.msus.edu (Dustin B Rogne)
- Date: 6 Jan 93 14:39:22 -0600
- Organization: Mankato State University
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- Help please, mail to trix@krypton.mankato.msus.edu.
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- This question is for a friend:
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- I need a Xconfig & X386 for the ATI I dont have any documentation &
- clocks.exe locks up my machine (I tried 8154 mode) ;-)
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- My questions are: (NOTE: these come from reading the FAQ)
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- 1. What is an extended partition? What kind and how big should I make it
- for a great, but conservative linux setup? Should I make two partiions
- for the swap drive also?
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- > Mount each of the disks in turn and run the install script on each
- > of them.
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- 2. What is the mount command to do this?
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- > QUESTION: I have the previous Linux version, how can I upgrade it?
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- 3. Can you just get the most recent linux code, compile it, and not have to
- get the full SLS release aagain. (ALL the old programs will work?)
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- > QUESTION: How can I be sure I won't be writing over anything important? I
- > have to use DOS on my machine, and I don't want to lose any files.
- >
- > ANSWER: Back up everything. Just in case. Then, write some easily
- > recognizable pattern to the partition you have reserved for linux, using
- > some DOS tool. You can then use "cat /dev/hdX" under linux to examine
- > which of the partitions you used.
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- 4. I have no comprehension of what and why this was put in the FAQ?
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- Thanks,
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- -Dustin
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