Hi Charles,
At 05:23 PM 2/8/00 -0500, Charles O. Hartman wrote:
>But I can't get (for example) the man command to get installed. When I...
I'm afraid I'm not familiar enough with dselect to answer that one, but...
>In case somebody's got a moment's patience for simplicities, I have
>three really basic questions about using Linux (which man might be able
>to answer if I could get at it!):
>
>1) How do I access other devices (for example the CD), such as to use ls
>to find out what's on them?
You have to 'mount' them. For example, to access a CD:
- login as root and insert a CD into the drive
- create a mount point (simply an empty directory, try 'mkdir /cdrom'
or 'mkdir /floppy' if they don't already exist)
- mount the device using 'mount <raw device> <mount point>'
(i.e. 'mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom' or 'mount /dev/fd0 /floppy')
- you'll be able to see the contents - 'ls /floppy', etc.
- to see another cd/floppy, you have unmount and repeat this process
(i.e. 'umount /floppy'; 'mount /dev/fd0 /floppy')
- don't forget to 'umount' when you're done - the command is 'umount'
not 'unmount'... not a typo.
There may be better ways, but this should work on a freshly-installed
system to get you started.
>2) If I add another piece of equipment (such as an extra hard drive),
>how do I go about acquainting the system with that fact? Do I re-run
>install? But that's a DOS command and DOS has gone away now . . .
Have a look at:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Multi-Disk-HOWTO-12.html#ss12.6
and other useful info nearby. In a nutshell, to add a second IDE
drive you need to:
- physically install the drive
- prepare the drive - partition/format/mkfs
- edit and specify mount points in /etc/fstab, these will be
automatically mounted at boot time.
>3) What's the proper way to shut down the system? I can reboot (which
>does an orderly shutdown) and kill the power during the reboot, but that
>seems crude.
machine$ sync
machine$ sync; halt
Wait for "system halted" and then you can safely power off.
machine$ shutdown -h now
does the same thing, but gives a nice little warning message to users.
And now for a newbie question of my own...
I've installed the base system and everything works fine, including
ppp, etc. How can I use the "tasks" and "profiles" method of
package selection that was in section 7.23 of the install guide?
Is this even possible, or do I have to deal with picking out of
deselect by hand? 2000+ packages! Yikes!
thanks,
-Rich Zitola
ZeePrime Technical Services
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