[thelist] 2 Linux Questions

Howdy There .... fellow evolterootski-tootskis,


A couple Linux questions today: (I'm gonna try installing a Mandrake system
tonight. I'm planning to allocate 6GB and run it 'dual-boot' on my home
win98 box.  {Using subsets of Partition Magic and Boot Magic - packaged with
the Macmillan Mandrake offering.} )

(1)	Any suggestions on setting "mount points"? Names and sizes?
Eventually I would like to run Apache and mySQL on this bugger.  (Do I have
to get this right the first time?  Can I clean it up later as I learn more
about this silly thing?)
(2)	I run a pair of NT boxes at work (with FAST connections).  I've
downloaded "Steve's File Splitter" from tucows at work - wonderful utility,
that!  [You split up say a 5Mb mp3 file into five 1mb files plus a small
"rejoin.bat" that you run from dos to put the other files back together.
Take them all home on floppies and avoid hours of slow home download time!]
But is it going to work to port things home to Linux?  Example: I downloaded
the 70Mb "Star Office for Linux" utility from Sun Microsystems at work this
morning (tar file).  How the heck do I get it home?

<tip subject="Manually Created Databases" author="Ron Luther">
If your client wishes to "marry" their system generated data to some small
obscure database that has been manually created and maintained by some
whimsical group (Engineering perhaps?) within the company......  be very
sure to quote them LOTS to time to test and "scrub" the manual database.  Do
not make this optional.  Do not believe them when they say the "data is
'good' - just run with it!".
</tip>


Thanks Gang!


Ron L.