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Looking for man pages

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Confused on how to look for a particular man page run apropos this wil give you a list of man pages that contain the above keyword in its description for ex. #apropos utmp endutent [getutent]? (3)? – access utmp file entries getutent???????????? (3)? – access utmp file entries getutid [getutent]?? (3)? – access utmp file … Read more

Installing 2 gnu/linux Distros

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I have to install Windows ME, Fedora Core 3 and SuSe 9.1. How do I proceed

Solution :

Before install take a deep breath on how to arrange spaces for installing three distors I have used as under…

I have a 40 GB Hard Disk and I have made the following partitions…

1) 5 GB FAT 32 (C:)
2) 5 GB FAT 32 (D:)
3) 10 GB EXT3 (For SuSe 9.1)
4) 10 GB EXT3 (For Fedora 3)
5) 512 MB SWAP (Thumbrule for setting up the size of SWAP = 2 * RAM present in your computer)
6) Rest kept free (to be used according to need)

In the above I used the first 5 GB FAT for installing Win ME. The second 5 GB FAT for storage of Win data files. The first 10 GB EXT3 for SuSe 9.1 and second 10 GB EXT3 for Fedora Core 3. The 512 MB swap is for common SWAP place.

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File System Structure – I

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File system Structure I Here we will see how Unix/Linux File system is organized and what commands can be used to search for files and programs. 1.File System Layout The first noticeable difference between Linux/Unix and a DOS or Windows system is the filesystem. For starters, we do not use drive letters to denote different … Read more

Introduction to Linux/Unix-I

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Introduction to Linux/Unix-I

Here we will see what these basic terms of Linux/Unix mean to us

Multiuser

Multi-user operating systems allow multiple users to
utilise the computer and run programs at the same time. All
time-sharing
systems
are multi-user systems, but most batch processing systems for
mainframes were too, to avoid leaving the expensive CPU idle while it
waited for I/O operations to complete.

The most obvious example is a Unix server where multiple
remote users have access (via
Telnet) to the Unix shell prompt at
the same time.

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know about ur partitons

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confused on how to know what partitions name do you have just run fdisk -l and this will give u list of all secondary memory devices including ur hard disks and USB sticks