Thanks to the help from this list, I am beginning to get the hang of things
under Linux. Still... I have more questions;
1. Does Linux have/need a defragmenting program? I looked around on the net
and found some indications that as long as 10% of the file system is free, ext2
doesn't need defragmenting? Is that true? I noticed that my system mentions
something about "0.8% non-contiguous" after re-mounting /dev/hda at boot time.
Is this a fragmentation message?
2. How difficult is it to recompile the kernel for someone who can write batch
files under DOS and had some BASIC programming experience in the days before
structured BASIC? (120 GOTO 10, etc...) I want to add sound support to my
Linux machine, but I am afraid that the machine will not boot after I
recompile. Which leads to my next question;
3. If I installed the "Multimedia machine" option when I installed Redhat 5.0,
was that supposed to have configured sound for me or only install support? I
tried to use x11amp the other night and I got two error messages. (Something
about not being able to open device /dev/audio and one other error.)
4. If I successfully get sound working from the console, does that carry over
to the X environment?
5. Should I have istalled the C developer libraries and compilers, etc... in
order to recompile the kernel?
Once again, any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks
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