Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Dec 7th, 2005 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 3,007 1) cat random things into /dev/dsp
(edit: forgot to say turn on your speakers first)
Some of my favorites:
cat /boot/vmlinuz-VERSION >> /dev/dsp
cat /dev/urandom >> /dev/dsp
cat /lib/modules/*... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Dec 7th, 2005 |
| Replies: 75 Views: 80,382 Gentoo is for experts and people who like to recompile the wheel and all its dependencies. However, it is faster. If you're not a novice with Linux I would recommend Gentoo. (although it compiles... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Nov 19th, 2005 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 2,531 The bin, boot, etc. directories are the filesystem. To get to, say, your windows hard drive, open up a terminal and type:
mkdir /mnt/windows
sudo mount -t auto -o rw,user /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Sep 3rd, 2005 |
| Replies: 18 Views: 28,244 tcsh is a C shell variant...
2 things you don't want to type:
rm -Rf /*
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/(your HD here) |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Apr 23rd, 2005 |
| Replies: 38 Views: 7,633 There's this one DOS tool called "The Partition Resizer." http://www.webtree.ca/newlife/partresizer_info.htm |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Apr 23rd, 2005 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 2,397 I'm trying Debian out with jigdo. But thanks for the suggestion. :) |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Apr 23rd, 2005 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 2,397 Just when I start thinking Gmail is perfect... and by the way, I have dialup :( |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Apr 17th, 2005 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 2,397 Does anyone know where I can find the 3 ISO images for Mandrake Linux in zip or gzip files? If there aren't any, can someone please zip them up and email them to me? mmiikkee12@gmail.com
Thanks.
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Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Apr 10th, 2005 |
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Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Apr 10th, 2005 |
| Replies: 12 Views: 9,927 As for repartitioning, there's this one DOS app called Partition Resizer. It resizes partitions without erasing data, hence the name :) I don't have the URL right off hand, do a google search... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jan 16th, 2005 |
| Replies: 28 Views: 7,086 Debian, absolutely. It was great back before my Debian drive died a tragiic death... :cry: It wasn't Debian's fault though, that drive always made noise and I was expecting it to die soon. Since it... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jan 16th, 2005 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 2,561 I've got to agree. Debian rocks.
(we need a Tux smiley on these forums:)) |