n9ne said:
Quick Question does Console=Terminal cuase I know there are different command terminals, I think.
Anyway the adduser seems simple enough.
as far as i know, yes.
n9ne said:
All I did was unplug 2HDs during install since then I have plugged them back in just need to know how to add them to /dev or is it /etc/fstab
right, but i need to know how they are connected so that i can tell you what to put in fstab...also it may mess up
booting into linux...definately if one of those hard drives has windows on it. but if you managed to put linux on the same hard drive as windows, and can get to either one now...here's the basics on fstab and hard drives:
the first IDE hard disk is referred to as /dev/hda. that is the master disk on the primary IDE controller. the slave on that controller is /dev/hdb. the second controller's master and slave, respectively: /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd.
on each hard disk, you can have up to four primary partitions...let's say /dev/hda has 4 partitions, here's how we can address each partition:
/dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, /dev/hda3, and /dev/hda4
now fstab. here's a basic line that i would use to mount a windows partition. this particular partition is the first partition on the master hard disk connected to the primary IDE channel.
Code:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user,quiet 0 0
the first option (options are delimited by spaces) is the location of the partition...we discussed that earlier. the second option is the mount point. it's basically an empty folder that you should create for the partition to be mounted to. these are often found in the /mnt/ directory. the third option is the filesystem type. this partition is Fat 32, so i'm using the vfat option. if your partition is ntfs...you would use ntfs (support for ntfs must be compiled into the kernel...i believe it is in the default slackware kernel.) next is the options option (these options in the option section are delimited by commas) the user option allows a regular user to mount and unmount this partition. the quiet option tells the kernel "hey...don't tell me that you can't write linux permission information to this partition, i know." i usually use that for vfat, but it really isn't necessary for ntfs due to the fact that it's not a good idea to write to ntfs partitions from linux. another option worth considering is
ro it makes the partition read only. simple enough
more of these options can be found in the manpage for mount (man mount). the last two options (after the options section) are "dump" and "pass". you can read more about them in the fstab man page (man fstab). i'd just leave them both at 0.
I have learned a bit about the "mail" command as I have stated above in the past hour or so and I would prefer to use this and some common news reader which is found in most linux distros.
if i'm not mistaken, the built-in "mail" command can only be used to check local system mail. most *nix systems run mail servers whether they serve the public or not. often they are used to send logs to the root user or notices if something goes wrong. there are other console mail clients that will check pop accounts, i'm sure. but i don't know of any.
I dont known I know really I remeber selecting /dev/ttyS4 cuase I wrote it down. Im on a LAN or is WAN since I have a router.....
LAN.
try this command: ifconfig eth0
that
should give you information about your ethernet adapter, and whether or not it has picked up an IP address via DHCP.