On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Orr Dunkelman wrote:
> Anyhow, the slides of the current lectures (or links to the slides) can be > found at http://www.haifux.org/newcomers/timetable.html the '0' lecture (programming under linux for the technion student) got the 'slides' all screwed up - it comes up in a single large html file, with the last few paragraphs being a complete mess (no formatting nor new-lines - just a set of words from here to eternity) ;) the 'admin' lecture has a broken link - an extra '"' in the URL of its first page. also - alon promised to break it down to slides - it's still in one large (story-like) file... in the 'installation process' slides: - slide '5' - the installation on redhat 8.0 changed in this regard, as far as i know. better check with more updated sources how it goes ;) not sure it matters so much here, though. - page '7' - better state a rough number for the size of the linux (root) partition. e.g. "minimum 1Gb, but if you can afford 3-4GB - all the better". - slide '8' - handling NTFS partitions (which, i think, is commonly used now under windows 2000 and windows XP) is problematic - not sure that even partition magic can handle it properly - can it? - slide '10' - grup has one very important advantage over lilo - it allows you to define the kernel's file name and its parameters while you're in the grub prompt. with lilo - you have to log into linux, change the config file, and re-run lilo. this fails miserably if you made a mistake and got no working kernel config to load. - slide '12' - you might want to say that root is "like window's 'Administrator' account" - or you might not want to do that. guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
