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Re: Any Linux Fans Here?
« on: March 28, 2007, 02:03:01 AM »
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I hate dependencies.

That's why you use something else than RedHat. RedHat is notoriously bad in package management.
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Re: Any Linux Fans Here?
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2007, 02:06:41 AM »
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Does anyone have any insight on the directory structure of Linux or could point me to a source?

There is no fixed standard, each distribution has it's own (and no the kernel doesn't have any directory structure either). However, related distributions have very similar structure, say all the debian based distros. some common features are pretty standard, such as /usr /lib /var /etc /home. How files are distributed in these dirs is completely another topic and distros do differ.

There have been some attempts to standardize the structure, but they haven't been very successful. LSB is probably the best attempt so far, but it isn't perfect either.
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Re: Any Linux Fans Here?
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2007, 02:27:33 AM »
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now I'm on Kubuntu... Great ubuntu based distro.

...which in turn is Debian based. A Good Thing (TM)

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Dependencies have never gotten me mad :)

APT rulez ;-)
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Re: Any Linux Fans Here?
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2007, 08:15:37 AM »
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Re: Any Linux Fans Here?
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2007, 11:53:26 AM »
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I'd really like to set up Quake2, as I am an addict. Can anyone out there point to a tutrial that explains how to do so?

With any decent distribution, as root:
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apt-get install quake2
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Re: Any Linux Fans Here?
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2007, 11:59:32 AM »
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That's why you use something else than RedHat. RedHat is notoriously bad in package management.

Why that?

RPM Hell
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Re: Any Linux Fans Here?
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2007, 12:38:38 PM »
yum indeed helps. RH dependicies were total pain before. However, yum doesn't (well can't) fix some of the other issues with rpm.
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Re: Any Linux Fans Here?
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2007, 02:59:09 PM »
@mgerics

Works with debian.

Ohwell.

Is there some specific error?
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Re: Any Linux Fans Here?
« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2007, 07:42:44 PM »
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I actually doubt that someone went so far as to code a RamDisk as well.

Dynamic ramdisk has been in the linux kernel since 2.4.

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mkdir /mnt/ramdisk
mount -t tmpfs none /mnt/ramdisk
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Re: Any Linux Fans Here?
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2007, 01:46:21 PM »
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I had Debian in the past, after having switched to a bigger hard drive I still have to reinstall it

Why reinstall?

Linux is pretty much like AmigaOS in this regard, you can partition the new drive, copy over the files on the partitions, and it will work just fine.

Hard Disk Upgrade HOWTO was written in PC perspective, but it's easy to adjust it to other hardware platforms.
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Re: Any Linux Fans Here?
« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2007, 02:05:46 PM »
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Isn't there in Linux any configuration file that contains absolute paths to the partition where the system is installed, like /dev/hdc1, which could create conflicts/problems if the partition position in the new drive is different?

Only one: /etc/fstab
See step 8 in the HOWTO I linked.

(The other potential place is the kernel root= option in the bootloader, but that isn't part of the linux installation strictly speaking)
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