What is rtfm?
On Saturday January 4 2003 18:36, you wrote: > Hi all. > > At the risk of displaying my obvious newbiness, and incurring the quick > "rtfm" solution, can someone point me in the right direction with the > following directions? I've got lots of manuals and books and magazines, > which I've been reading but sometimes it's nice to just be able to ask a > direct question and get a direct answer. Here's the scoop ... > > 1. How do you do a "dir f:" command in linux ? > > It's only one simple little question, but I've not been able to find the > equivalent in linux. > > I'm running RH 8.0 and I've been playing around with it. Actually > thought I'd been doing quite well, but I've got a pretty decent box to > run it on. Some of you might have seen it at the last instalfest at > Nexus. It's got a p4-2.4gh-512mb- spec. I have a removeable C: with > 20gb on it, a D: that is a 12X DVD drive, and an E: that is a 40x12x48 > LitOn CD-RW. They all work great. > > What I've been trying to do is access an F: that is a fat32 formatted > 6.4gb common "data disk", that I wish to be available to my RH > configuration and to my WinXP-Pro configuration, when I pull the RH C: > out and plug in my WinXP C: (80 gb Western Digital). > > With Windows, I can open up explorer and check out c: and d: and etc, or > go to dos (a window, in XP) and type "dir x: /w" or whatever. I'm very > comfortable in Dos or in Windows, but I don't know all the equivalent > commands in linux. > > Maybe I need to do something with Samba to accomplish this ?? I don't > know, but I'm sure lots of people in this group can point me in several > different directions that will all help me. > > My New Years Resolution last year was to get into linux and here I am. > I haven't given up, and I'm still enthused about learning it. One of > the things that I did accomplish was setting up my C: as a removeable > drive so that I could plug my OS of choice in and boot accordingly. > With Windows on my C: I have long been able to do a "ghost" image which > I do frequently for obvious reasons. With Linux on my C: I ran into a > problem in that testing the backup seemed to indicate the backup was not > a reliable image. I've been able to succeed with Ghost 2003, however, > albeit with a minor tweak to get the image up after it was made. It > seems it needed a boot disk to boot from on the first run after imaging > in order to correct something in the mbr or the lilo config. I'm not > sure which, but booting from a disk did succeed in fixing the boot > process on the HD so that the next time booting off the HD was > successful. So now I can make a backup of my Linux C: and then play > with it to my hearts content, without fear of trashing something and not > having a backup. > > Progress sometimes occurs in small steps. But I'm running off at the > mouth, so I better quit while I'm ahead. See you all at the meeting on > Wed. > > (I've got my browser (mozilla 1.1) set, as far as I can tell, to send > this in text mode, so if it fails and sends it in html, please let me > know). > > TIA.
