[ale] Finally!!

[Robert Heaven]

At 07:43 PM 5/17/99 +0000, Wandered Inn wrote:
>Robert Heaven wrote:
>
>> Problems:
>> 
>> 1. I wish the RH setup had of been able to let me know that the partition
>> sizes I had selected weren't large enough for the packages I had selected.
>> Took me 2 tries just to get to the point where I could do a "df" and see
>> how they should be.
>
>I don't know which 5.2 you got, but the one I have has a manual that
>gives some suggestions for file system sizes.  This will vary
>substantially, dependent on what you plan to install.  My quake2
>directory is 375197 blocks. :)
>

The book I bought (which had the R 5.2 in it) was "RedHat Linux Unleashed".
All it said about it was that I needed to create certain partitions, it
didn't say anything about how big.

>> 
>> 2. I had trouble recognizing the Zip drive. Linux had no trouble at all
>> finding it. However I didn't know it until I looked at the boot-up messages
>> that it was seeing it as a hard drive (hdd). At that point I understood why
>> I was getting an I/O error during the setup program and had to skip a disk.
>> So all I had to do then was put in a zip disk and run fdisk /dev/hdd and
>> build a file system on it. Now, all I need to do is figure out how to
>> create a mount point called /mnt/zip to go along with the /mnt/cdrom and
>> /mnt/floppy that are already there.
>
>mkdir /mnt/zip
>

Thanks... that simple huh..

>> 
>> 3. I have a Compaq V50 monitor (15"), which is not in the list of monitors,
>> so I had to select the generic Extended SVGA (800x600) monitor type. It
>> seems to look OK.
>
>If you have the docs on your monitor, you can probably select to custom
>build your config file and get better resolution.
>
>

It's a borrowed monitor. I'm just using it to set up a server so I'm really
not interested in fancy graphics.

>> ..... (and
>> if you're wondering why I haven't loaded Linux on this laptop, I can give
>> you 2 good reasons: Built-in win-modem and Quicken)
>
>External modem and wine. :)
>

I've already checked the WINE web page (often). From the stories I've read
on there it doesn't work at all.

>> 
>> Over the next few days (or weeks) I'll be installing another NIC and
>> setting up all the little do-dads for building my internet
>> gateway/firewall/proxy/etc. Wish me luck.
>
>Good luck.
>
>> 
>> RH
>
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>
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