[thechat] Mandrake Linux

Kevin Stevens kjs at ratking.co.uk
Tue Jan 29 15:54:00 CST 2002


> What's the grep command look like that you are using?  The form is:
>
>    grep pattern [files]

Thanks for the replies, could you define what you mean by pattern?

> I'm guessing your partitions are:
>
>    hda0 - /
>    hda6 - swap space

Yeah, but it seems to have taken 1 Gig as swap space, I was under the
impression that swap space is supposed to be about twice the size of your
RAM, of which I have 128 meg. And I am confused as to why it is labeling it
HDA6 instead of HDA1.

> To re-install, try booting from CD again.  It should prompt you to
> redo the install.  At least, it used to in Red Hat distributions.

Yes, you're correct, I can do this. The reason I wanted to re-format was to
set the partition sizes myself and to see if some of the problems I am
having re-appear. The grep thing mentioned above is one of them, also I
wrote some code to the bashrc file that should give me a prompt if I try to
overwrite something (I believe I got this from linux.org), but that isn't
working either. I am at that horrible newbie stage where I am unsure if it
is me being stupid or the machine :)

Kevin Stevens
kjs at ratking.co.uk




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