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Some probably elementary Linux questions (RedHat 9)

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ViperMagic

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So I installed RedHat 9 (woot for me), and now I have some questions. The only way I can get online is through another comuter via ICS. How do I make RH use my internal modem? Is it even possible?

I want to make a FAT partition to share data from my XP install to the Linux install - please tell me this is possible? And how do I go about navigating folders and files in RH? I havent quite figured that out yet either.

I might be back with more quesions 🙂 Your help is much appreciated!
 
Linux has full support for real modems. Unfortunately many internal modems are fake modems. Instead of using hardware to run them selves they need to have software emulation. The modem companies don't want to give out the software emulation so that people can port it to linux, so people had to reverse engineer the winmodems. Which is not very easy and may need some extra setup.

Heres the details

Linux supports FAT partitions just fine. You loose the file permissions to a certian extent and the person to mount the partition to your directory system. But it shouldn't be a problem if all you want to do is share files.

To navigate the directory system you can use the desktop file manager to do it.

The bottom directory is called the root directory, it is representated by a "/". Their is no C: drive or anything like that. Every thing is part of the directory system. For example your home directory would be located at /home/username. Another important directory (most of them are) is /etc/ and that is were your system wide configurations are kept.

Any other partitions, cdrom, floppy disks, or network shares must be "mounted" to a empty directory to become accessable to you.

So if you want to use the desktop file manager to view stuff you open it up, and in the top it should have a place near the top that shows the "path". Replace that with a / and that will take you to root.

A much better way to do it is to use the command line to navigate. Open up a terminal (Redhat used to have it located in the system tools menu, I think, move a copy of the button to your task bar).

Dos's syntax for a large part was based on Unix so lots of the commands are similar. You use cd command to change directories. Like:
cd /home

Instead of dir command you use "ls" to do the same thing.
ls /etc
or for more details:
ls -l /etc

You also have a autocomplete function which saves you a lot of typing.
Say you have a file named:
MyHomePicsThatITookLastYearAtXmasAtMyGrandmaHouse.jpg
You don't have to type it out. As long as the beginning of the name is unique to that file you can try:

ls -l MyHo

Then with no space hit the tab button and it will finish it for you.

If you do searches in www.google.com you can like this one you can find all sorts of help and get very detailed howtos on how to do lots of different stuff.

That's how I learned.
 
>I want to make a FAT partition to share data from my XP install to the Linux install - please tell
>me this is possible?

It's possible. If you already have used up all your disk space in partitions, it is more difficult. There is a linux program (which I have never used) that can resize partitions to make room for another. There are also DOS and Windows oriented programs, the best known of which is Partition Magic. New partitions will have to be "mounted" in linux in order to be accessed. I've done it, but don't remember the details. As usual in linux, it isn't hard, but it is hard to figure out, and you are unlikely to remember it. I believe both the Red Hat and Mandrake installation programs mount pre-existing FAT partitions for you. You might be able to mount NTFS partitions as "Read Only" in Red Hat.

There is a Windows program that will read linux partitions.
Explore2fs near bottom of page
There is a lot more there too.
 
heres another one for you guys:

I wanted to try and mount my Windows partion, which is NTFS, so I took a peek into my /dev folder to see what it might be called. To my surprise, there is 7250 items in the folder!! All but a few are 0bytes, too Help! What might it be caled?
 
>What might it be called?

hda followed by a number for the partition,

hda1
hda2

The second hard drive would be hdb. Then hdc. etc. That's even if you don't actually have more than one HD.

Identifying the number of a partition can be complicated, because there are 4 primary partitions possible, which get the first 4 numbers, even if you actually have only one primary partition (normally the case) Windows only uses one primary partition. Then Windows creates a second partition to contain what they call extended partitions. Within that "container" partition, Windows creates so-called logical partitions, and linux numbers them beyond 4. So they get numbers from 5 on, I think. There can be any number of logical partition, not limited to 4.

The extended partition gets a number too, just as if it were a primary partition, because in reality it is a primary partition, just of a specialized type.
 
Red Hat should have fstab'ed and mounted your Windows partion already. Are you sure its not there?
 
I'm just getting into Linux too, to to your local library and pick up a book, or buy one online (if I could suggest bookpool.com great prices on new tech books), a Redhat book will make learning Rehat & Linux much easier. You can also check the web, here's a nice basic guide that I read from when I have time: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html You can also go the redhat site and find their official documentation for RH9.

As for your question regarding NTFS, as far as I know RH by default can't see NTFS partitions, I believe RH says it's because of potential legal issues. There's software you can find online which will install the NTFS drivers for you. However, be careful, I did that and suddenly I was only able to log in under root, my user name kept coming up with some error and it took me a little bit to figure it out and stop it.

Hope that helps
 
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