On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 01:22:48PM +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote:
> Hello Folks,
>
> Please bear with me if the questions I am about to ask appear to be a
> bit silly. I am completely new to Linux.
>
> I have just installed Red Hat Linux 6.1 onto a 10G HD.
[snip - partition description]
> game to try a format on D in case it may be the Linux partition. I don't
> know how to look at it under Linux. There appears to be no fdisk on my
> Linux system or the boot disk created during install so I cannot work
fdisk (and cfdisk) are usually installed in either /sbin or /usr/sbin.
>From the shell try
$ /sbin/fdisk -l <device>
or
$ /usr/sbin/fdisk -l <device>
Where <device> = /dev/hda
Most of the distributions I have used place fdisk in /sbin (which is not on
the PATH of normnal users). If neither of those work, the `locate' command
may be able to help.
> out what Linux thinks are there. During bootup the following message is
> in dmesg, Partition check. hda: hda1 hda2 <hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8>. The 4
> partitions I created during the linux install appear to be there.
>
> My question therefore is, how can I check out those 4 partitions. How
> can I format hda8 to be a FAT32 partition (providing, of course, that it
> is the 4G partition I created at install time as a dos >=32 (the other 3
The other command you should look at is `mount'. This will tell you
which partitions are mounted as `/' (and any others under Linux) which
you should probably not delete or reformat.
> partitions are root, boot and swap.) Can I format it under WIN 98? Is
> the D drive WIN 98 sees the dos >=32 partition or one of the other Linux
> partitions?
If you want to format a partition so that the filesystem type is FATX (X =
12, 16 or 32) then I'd recommend using the standard Microsoft tools.
> Questions, questions, questions.
>
> The other question I have at the moment is how to FTP files, in
> particular docs. From one of the HOWTOS I got the following info:
>
> Linux Installation and Getting Started at
> http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/LDP/gs/gs.html.
>
> I can go to that site and read the file in my Netscape browser. When I
> went to a terminal and invoked ncftp I was able to OPEN the site but a
> GET using the full URL told me there was no such file. I then CDed to
> the gs dir and did a GET on gs.html and received the same message, no
> such file.
Files which are available via FTP normally have URLs that start with
ftp://
In your case the URL you gave starts with http:// (hypertext transfer protocol).
If, without using Navigator, you'd like to retrieve the file a utility called
`wget' may be what you are after.
> I know this is all pretty simple stuff to experienced users but if
> someone can help me with this simple stuff I can start, hopefully,
> looking after myself.
HTH,
Anand
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