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| Thread ID: 33936 | 2003-05-30 05:47:00 | Which Linux?? Older Computer | Brad H (738) | Press F1 |
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| 148557 | 2003-05-31 09:47:00 | A full installation of RH9 (which includes much more than the OS of course) takes up 4.8Gbytes. A minimal but useful installation would be about 1.5Gbytes. You can probably install it on about 800Mbytes if you try. | JohnD (509) | ||
| 148558 | 2003-05-31 09:51:00 | I presume you mean the directory structure rather than the file system. Have a look at: www.firstlinux.com John |
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| 148559 | 2003-05-31 10:08:00 | > Just out of interest, how much hard drive space does > a full installation of rh9, mndrake9 take up?? A good useful install of RedHat (Without OpenOffice, but WITH KOffice and KDE) is about 1.1 - 1.2 Gigs, depends a lot on what you install though! > And how does the linux filesystem work? I can't > understand it...its not like windows with all the > system files in one place...theres so much stuff to > search through! A quick run-down is it all starts with the root directory represented by a / From there, everything else is a tree almost, off of that. Extra HDD's can be 'mounted' whereby a Folder is created, and the drive is set in place, or mounted, into that folder, if that makes sense, so you could acces your secondary HDD from /mnt/hdb1 /mnt is where most devices around mounted like /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/floppy, and then there's your extra HDD's if that's where you choose to mount them :-) the hdb1 is explained like this: hd = hard drive or it could be: sd = SCSI drive b = Primary Slave, hdc would be Secondary Master.. 1 = partition 1 :-) And extended partition may be hdb3 Hope this helps Chill. |
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