[thelist] 2 Linux Questions

"Luther, Ron" wrote:
> 
> (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?)

Don't expect to get it perfect on the first try. There are many 'right' ways to do
it. I'm in the camp of setting up /, /var, /home, /usr as separate mount points. (I
also setup /web where all my web sites are)

> (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?

Invest in a zip drive. Linux can see zip drives fine, but you can also boot Win9x
copy the files down - then boot Linux and read them off the win9x partition.

-- 
Anthony Baratta