Thomas Delany wrote: > > Re 3) I don't have a lot of experience with this as I've usually just let > the Debian install procedure set up the hard disk for me. As far as > partitioning the drive goes, Linux has an fdisk utility that is sort of the > counterpart of the MS-DOS / Windows fdisk utility (check the man page / > documentation). > I suggest you sue cfdisk, rather than fdisk. It's more sophisticated, and in my (admittedly limited) experience less likely to lead you astray.
> I believe that the Linux mkfs utility is the closest equivalent to the > MS-DOS / Windows format command. Again, check the man page / documentation > for its options. Anybody else out there feel free to correct me if I'm way > off base here, as I'm not exactly an old hand at Linux. > Yes. If you are doing an installation for the first time, the install procedure takes care of all this for you. > I am not at all qualified to answer 4) for you. Sorry. > My own prejudice is to put it all into the kernel. I don't think that it reduces functionality that much. If you have something that you don't use very often, it may make more sense to modularize it. I use pretty much everything nearly every day. so have put it all in the kernel. -- Cam Ellison Ph.D. R.Psych. >From Roberts Creek on B.C.'s incomparable Sunshine Coast [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
