I'm THE MAN...

[Goosemaster]

I FINALLY got Gentoo to work...KDE and all....slick interface too

One question I did have was regarding the interface in KDE

I am correct in assuming the "windowed" approach to KDE and bash windows is universal? Even the KDE desktop has the windowed frames all around. I can minimize it but I can no longer see the icons.


Is there a way I can modify it to act as a Mandrake or Redhat desktop would, where the desktop is "fullscreen"

Keep in mind I don't have interent at my place yet....just moved in and have to wait for at most a week to have the t1 or dsl put in🙁


Thanks


Also, I am interested in utilizing the second Harddisk on my gentoo box...(see sig "FA TONY" it is the HP VECTRA machine)

I have two Maxtor 8GB and because I have a Tekram DC-200 IDE RAID controller, which if I am not mistaken is not of the Hotpoint or Promise-controller type, I was not able to adaquately Stripe them. Still, this machine will be swapped with another one I have with an adaquate controller soon.


Anyways....I have this extra 8GB HD and am interested in making some use of it.

I attempted to make some use of it but so far no luck...

It is the Primary Master on the Secondary channel.

So is that

"hdb" or "hdb" ? I think I ended up using "hdc" in a bash window and I attempted to make an extended partition bt I think I fubar'd it horribly

Iwould like to format it in a way that would allow me to use it as network storage using something resembling the likes of samba etc.

How would I go about doing that while maximizing the space I can use, and still giving it acces from both machines.

Also, what would the commands be for making it of the proper drive Allocation-type? ...say fat32?


Thanks


You have been a great help on my little endeavor

Mrs. Fields should be showing up at all of your houses this aftertoon with cookies...😀😉

 

[smp]

isn't it hda1 hda2 hda3 and so on?

 

[Sunner]

hda is the "name" of the disk, while hda1, hda2, etc are the slices on that disk.

The master on the secondary controller should be hdc.
Just dont forget to fdisk it before you try to create any filesystems on it.

 

[mcveigh]

thank disk should be hdc

do "fdisk hdc"
format it then
mkdit /mnt/newdisk
mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/newdisk (or somethign like that)

if it works edit your /etc/fstab file with the new disk info.

 

[TheOmegaCode]

Originally posted by: Sunner
hda is the "name" of the disk, while hda1, hda2, etc are the slices on that disk.

The master on the secondary controller should be hdc.
Just dont forget to fdisk it before you try to create any filesystems on it.

Gentoo uses slices? 😕

 

[Nothinman]

Gentoo uses slices?

Slices can be used interchangably with partitions. I think it's only on x86 where the BSDs make slices sub-partition, although it's been a while since I had FreeBSD on my Alpha.

Anyway since Linux does support OSF/1, Sparc and BSD disklabels it would be possible to make Linux use them for normal filesystems. I even contemplated doing it to avoid having so many partitions, but scratched the idea for one reason or another.

 

[Goosemaster]

Anyone have any clue how to fix thegreen window borders I mentioned