by jerryyyyy » 03 Jan 2007, 17:40
Thanks... I doubted they were giving away the ranch....
Having done a lot of Linux installs with dual systems a major issue is the disk partitioning strategy at the outset. If you can only get a 10GB YDL disk, you are going to need a lot of storage elsewhere.
I believe they left in the manual set-up in YDL installation, but not sure if it allows changing partition size.
Hopefully I will have the time to research this and copy my old fstab files, but we should try to make a sticky with fstab setting for common mounting problems.
For newbies, fstab is in /etc/fstab and is the fs=file system tab=table... it lists everything that is mounted at start-up.
Tonight I am going to try to mount a usb drive with all my audio on it.
BTW, another key issue is that Linux does not like NTFS and prefers Fat32 for read/writes.... long story.
For those learning Linux/UNIX the other key file is inittab, initialization table... and /etc/X11... .conf, which the graphics configurations hide. This is usually a nightmare and a good reason to use their install if it works.
Would not mess with any of these X11 files unless you know what's up. If you do, the trick is to set the init level to 3 from 5 in the initab file and it will come up in text mode, then you can type startx and it will go to graphics mode and you can see if your changes took ok.