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Grigorii

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Posted: Mar. 05 2006,23:26

Quote (NewDude @ Feb. 15 2006,19:54)

My wife is starting to get mad at me because I spend 3 to 5 hours a night in my garage messing with the P166 running DSL. But she understands... I think...

Wait 'till you start buying Linux books to further your understanding...further.

NewDude

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Posted: Mar. 06 2006,02:11

That is funny you say that, I already have. I have spent the last 10 days reading. The first night I got one of the books I read 150 pages in one of them. She was amazed, because she is usually the is the one reading stories. I don't like reading stories however, I would rather watch the movie..

But the last 10 days have been great. I have learned so much about Linux, but still have a lot to learn. What else am I suppose to do? I have almost completely left windoze. The only one windows machine I have left inthe house is Windows XP for the kids and my wifes quicken and I have a server in my garage running my website and email server run on Windoze 2k Pro. Eventually I will move my website, forum, and email server off Win2k and Linux will host it. But I still have a lot to learn before I am to that point.

BTW, do you know of a free webmail client I can run when I go to Linux to run my email server? Also, does DSL run email server stuff???

dw2

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Posted: Mar. 09 2006,21:16

www.Horde.org
it is the one that my site used

Blackbird

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Posted: Mar. 16 2006,15:54

Quote (300c_pilot @ Feb. 17 2006,20:14)

I have a simular pc pII-450 w/ 1gig mem and no harddrive, it is a rockect.:)

How can I expand the capacity of my / directory so that
I can load some programs to that as a base directory? I want
to set up a version with TCL/Expect on CD so that i can take advantage of the Expect scripting. The computer that I am trying to get this to work on is a 1.5Ghz with 1 gig ram and no harddrive. Adding a hardrive is not an option, it needs to run strictly from CD.

cbagger01

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Posted: Mar. 18 2006,17:53

You will need to rebuild the initial ramdisk image for DSL, stored on the CD as

minirt24.gz

Making this a larger filesystem will expand your "/" directory's capacity.

An alternative is to somehow create another, larger ramdisk, format it EXT2, copy the initial "/" files, directories and symlinks over and then chroot over to that ramdisk.

But if the files don't need to be inside "/" and instead only need to be inside a SUBDIRECTORY underneath the "/" tree, I would simply do this:

Boot DSL with this command:

dsl write

When booted, open up a terminal window and type:

sudo su
mkdir /ramdisk/mynewdir
cd /
ln -s /ramdisk/mynewdir

Due to the symbolic link, the directory named /ramdisk/mynewdir will also appear in the top level subdirectory as /mynewdir and you can then store a huge amount of data in your newly created directory because you have a large ramdisk due to the 1GB of RAM in your PC.

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