On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 02:49:49AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 6 Jan 2002 at 12:33, USM Bish wrote: > > > For this kind of machine, I hope you are not considering X. > > No. However, this machine is going to be used by a number of > users to enter the data (one at a time, of course). >
That is still a single user box. What I meant by multi-user is having 10 teminals trying to work on the same database. > > Actually, this is going to be in an intensive care unit. My > residents are going to enter the daily summary data of the > patients into the computer. > Well the system has to be very reliable to have real-time data of this type. I would'nt bank on a 486 class box for this. > > UMSDOS file system does not have the sort of permissions > system that ext2 has, does it? > Once in, you wont know the difference. It has long *nix style file names and you name it ... speed yes, marginally slower. Only the root file system needs to be UMSDOS. You can make your /home ext2 if you want once you have the system running. The problem is current generation distros are not floppy ori- ented. With Pygmy (equiv of Slack 7 or RH 7.x), at least you have a system going with less than 10 mb of download. You dont even need a swap ! The trick is partition your HDD with M$ (maybe DOS 6.22) as C: and D:, keeping D: about 2/3 of the HDD. Put DOS in C: then the full Pygmy in C:. Once you have linux runnning, with fdisk repartition the hard disk. Remove the extended label (D:) and put at least one more primary and a swap partition. You can make this ext2. Move your /home to this ext2. When you install your postgres, the data will go to /home/postgres. Your speed worries will be partially sorted out. Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Deleting dot files LOST #163 Doing a 'rm -f *' within a directory will remove all the files within the directory but NOT invisible DOT (.) files. You need to do a: '$rm .[A-Za-z0-9]*' # To delete DOT files ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
