*Please let me state at the very start that 'am mailing this on the general
list b'cos that I feel that it might help others also.*
Anup Gangwar.
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>My first problem started here. What is the meaning of "Mount on" ? Is it
>something similar to Drive C,D,E....etc as in DOS ?
Ans: You got it. It is the way of linux to assign a mount point similar to
the way DOS and Windows does. Just assume that you are starting at the root
of the tree and look up. What do you decipher. Well each and every thing has
to start from the root. So, in this case also your have to have a root. It
is denoted by '/' same as the '\' in DOS. Usually it is the biggest
partition in the Disk. So, your next question is automatically ansered that
you can not keep the mount point blank. The swap partition is some thing
similar to the swap space used by windows and that is why it does not need
any mount point as you shall never ever be required to access it directly.
Hope that answers your two questions.
Anyway I just left it
>blank and first created a swap partition of 128 MB. But when creating
>another partition for Linux native, it did not allow me to keep "Mount
>on" blank, and said to insert some values in it and, should start with
>"/". I did so and created a Linux native with "/" of 500 MB. Then I also
>created a "/user" of 1 GB. Although I created these partitions, I don't
>know what is "Mount on " and "/" , etc.
>Next I was stuck with installing my video card. I have a AGP Trident card
>975 with 4 MB RAM. Also, I could not in make out what is "Chip Set" in
>the card. How do I find it ? The system asked me to allow auto check the
>"chipset"
>but couldn't find it. I read a mail on this list that someone else was
>also having a same problem with the above mentioned card. So, for the
>time beign can I set with some other card make of Trident which are listed
>on the installation ?
Ans: Do not worry to much about the Graphics card. First of all you must
configure the rest of the system. Just choose the unlisted card option. Then
choose the SVGA Server when prompted to do so. In Linux the graphics
environment is not integrated in the system and is just a "process or
program". After you have completed the installation,
Login as root and give the password. This should bring to thr "#" prompt. At
this prompt type "mount /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom" that is assuming that your
CDROM is set as slave to your hard disk. If not try mount /dev/hdc or
/dev/hdd one of this ought to work, more on exactly what this is latter. It
will display something of the sort mounted ... on /mnt/cdrom at this type
cd/mnt/cdrom/pcqupdt
then type ./pcqupdt this shall run the pcqupdt script and install a plethora
of things just accept them as they come by. When it finishes it will ask you
to reboot do as it says again login as root and then type Xconfigurator it
should now be able to detect your card. If it doesn't then try the unlisted
card option and the VGA and SVGA one by one.
After all this type usekde. and finally startx. Hope you will be through.
>Last, I was stuck with LILO. I was given two option. One was to Load it as
>Master Loader and second to Load it at First Sector......etc.. I took the
>first option and continued with the remaining procedure without any
>problem.
>But in the end it said it was not able to load LILO. So, I re-tried it
>with the second option but still it gave an error. Can't figure out what
>the problem is.
>
>Anyway since , I had made a boot floppy (When it asked me make one during
>the installation) I was able to boot into the system and it did start.
>But since I have never ever used a unix or linux system I didn't know
>what to do .
>
>How does one run a program in Linux ?
>How does one start the GUI mode of using the system ?
>
>BTW, Can anyone out here show me a actually working Linux system . This
>will help me in seeing how one uses a linux system. I am ready to go to
>any corner of Mumbai just to see one. I know I sound like a real nerd,
>but belive me, as far as linux is concerned, I am a nerd.
>
>Hope to see a silver lining.
>
>Rajen.
>
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Bye and More latter,
Anup Gangwar.
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