lagerratrobe
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Posted: Feb. 04 2006,01:36 |
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mikshaw's right, you're going to go crazy trying to setup your system without a linux reference of some type. I have a very old copy of the O'Reilly 'Running Linux' book that is still a good reference for basic stuff. I would imagine that any used book on Linux will cover some of the basics you'll be interested in.
The nice thing about the live CD setup is that you don't have to worry too much about destroying your system. However once you make your NTFS disks writable in DSL, then you can do some damage to your other previously installed OS.
To answer some of your questions a bit more fully:
1. DSL probably found your NTFS partitions just fine. However it does not mount them automatically for you. Look in a file called /etc/fstab to see what... mountable partitions are present. (I never know what to call those suckers). Use the Beaver application to view the file, or point Firefox at the file, or use the unix utility "cat" in an Xshell. like this:
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# cat /etc/fstab
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Look for entries that have /dev/hd in them. Like this:
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# partitions found by dsl
#/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs noauto,users,exec 0 0
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All you have to do to make the partition accessible is to remove the # in front of the /dev/hda1, save the change, and type "sudo mount -a" in an Xshell. There's probably some other gui tool to do the mount command for you, but I've never looked it up.
Once you have done that, if you point the Emelfm file manager to /mnt/hda1, you should see the files on your hard disk. You can also edit and delete them. You've been warned.
2. Not gonna touch the refresh rate and X mode question. Brrrrr! Makes me cold just thinking about it.
3. I believe that the mydsl download site has a couple applications that you can use to setup a firewall on your system. "rcfirewall.dsl" in the Network section is one of them, and I believe the "iptables.dsl" in the System section is another. You'll have to look them up and see which you like best. Not really sure if any anti-virus software exists for Linux at this time. There probably is something, but I don't know of anyone who runs a Linux box with it.
Good luck.
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