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[Floydoid]

One more thing I was going to ask about, but not having yet read your latest tutorial, you may have covered it... what about basic housekeeping such as taking out the trash and defragging?

[roseway]

I haven't covered those things, and they're good suggestions. Defragging isn't considered necessary with Linux file systems (so long as you don't let a partition get over-full) because they use smart techniques for placing the files which keep them mainly contiguous.

[Floydoid]

I thought that might be the case with defragging in Linux... it's always amazed me how dos/windows has always managed to stick related stuff all over the place.

[kitz]

If I had chance Id actually have a go at installing again.

However problem I have right now is that Im running short on HDD space on this PC..  and because Ive handed machines down to the brat the only "spare" Box atm I have is the PIII which is the one that already has RH 9 on from about 4 years ago and had problems with hardware compatibility.

[roseway]

One option might be to stick another hard drive in your PC if you've got one lying around. Linux isn't fussy about what drive it's installed on. But I mustn't get too pushy now, must I?

[mr_chris]

heh - and if you did dual-boot kitz, you could mount your NTFS drives and use Samba to share the relevant folders on your main PC so when it was booted into Linux you'd still be able to access the shares you use remotely!

[kitz]

It would have to be an external drive - as you know Ive already got nearly full 200 + 250 GB drives.

TBH this whole machine needs an upgrade.. and the HDD situation needs looking at badly.   
The 200GB drive is utilised as a backup for the existing C+D drive..  with the linkstation for music etc.
I think theres no doubt that in reality I need a couple of larger drives and RAIDing them

[kitz]

Gosh eric

I spy another tutorial - you have been busy and put me to shame 

Well done you

[Floydoid]

Thanks Eric for another well written tutorial... some of it is actually sinking into my decrepit brain.

[roseway]

Thanks both.

And both of you are doing yourselves an injustice.

[guest]

Well done that man

May I suggest that you take some of Tutorial 6 and try to work it in a bit earlier in the series? I think it would read a bit better if permissions (passwords) and filesystems/mount points were somewhere nearer tutorial 2 where you do mention root passwords.

I still remember the trepidation of installing new operating systems and thinking "Oh gods where's the hard drive gone", then thinking "Great the manual is on the CD which has gone where exactly.....?"

Can't really think of much else to say as it seems spot on

PS - I'm assuming the Tutorials are still open to edits? I think once you get it polished just right (in your eyes) you should take all the Tutorials and use OpenOffice to turn it into a nice PDF suitable for download. Its not that many pages so it seems just about right for printing before that install

[Floydoid]

Linux was very much inspired by Unix, which existed long before Windows. Unix uses the forward slash (/) as its directory separator, and so does Linux. The internet of course also uses / because the vast majority of internet servers run Unix or Linux. Windows chose a different route for historical reasons.

What exactly were those 'historical reasons' - I've always wondered why, but I'm pretty sure that the \ is probably the only character invented by IT.

[roseway]

The original version of DOS didn't have a directory structure - all the files were together at the top level. So there was no need of a directory separator, and / was used to separate command line parameters, e.g.:

dir /param1 /param2

When it was realised that a directory structure was needed, they used \ as the directory separator to avoid confusion with the / which was already in use with command line parameters.

I think that's how it happened anyway.

[roseway]

PS ... and have probably regretted that decision ever since.

[roseway]

May I suggest that you take some of Tutorial 6 and try to work it in a bit earlier in the series? I think it would read a bit better if permissions (passwords) and filesystems/mount points were somewhere nearer tutorial 2 where you do mention root passwords.

PS - I'm assuming the Tutorials are still open to edits? I think once you get it polished just right (in your eyes) you should take all the Tutorials and use OpenOffice to turn it into a nice PDF suitable for download. Its not that many pages so it seems just about right for printing before that install

Yes I agree. I do intend to polish the tutorials and suggestions are very welcome. I'm not planning any new ones at this stage, so polishing the present ones is the next job.