a little help for the new guy, please.

amnesia

hhaha good luck

czar960

well, that was only 1000% easier than Ubuntu
I am sure I learned a few things through the other installs.
disk is now / @110,000 and swap space is @ 10,000

how do I change the GRUB loader? I want a longer time to choose the system and to be able to switch the default choice.

...tanks

czar960

hey...the partitioning thing (It is going to bug me until I know what is up....)

when you define the partitions is it supposed to be the root "/" as primary and all of the others as secondary?

this could be the answer......

amnesia

all my partitions are primaries..
root@msu:~/slacksync# df -hT
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root ext3 111G 12G 93G 12% /
/dev/hda2 ext3 111G 483M 104G 1% /usr/local
/dev/hda3 ext3 73G 3.0G 66G 5% /home
/dev/sda1 ext3 932G 377G 556G 41% /network
tmpfs tmpfs 950M 0 950M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 ext2 459G 98G 338G 23% /msu
root@msu:~/slacksync#

root@msu:~/slacksync# ls
db.cache exclude.txt rsync.sh* slackware-current/ slackware64/
root@msu:~/slacksync#

root@msu:~/slacksync# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x77016384

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 14589 117186111 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14590 29178 117186142+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 29179 38783 77152162+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 38784 38913 1044225 82 Linux swap
root@msu:~/slacksync# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4fcb9292

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 121602 976759808 83 Linux
root@msu:~/slacksync# fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x44fdfe06

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 60801 488384001 83 Linux
root@msu:~/slacksync#

id type 83 = linux native


That's how the server is setup :>

edit:
I know it's not standard practice to have 'huge' / partition, but I do, for the simple reason -- That I use / alot. I have a standard account, but for some reason I can't manage to stay out of root heh

kryptikos

Hi Eric,

To change the GRUB loader time value you need to boot into your linux and then edit the following file "/boot/grub/menu.lst"

In there you'll see a section that says:

## timeout sec
# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
# (normally the first entry defined).
timeout X

Where "X" is the timeout value. Just put a larger number there. It is in seconds.

Cheers - Kryptikos

czar960

Warning: unknown mime-type for "menu.lst" -- using "application/octet-stream"
Error: no write permission for file "menu.lst"

opened file through file browser and got the above message.

tried su thou a terminal and basically said the same thing
thanks
E

amnesia

well
you're going to have to use a text editor to change it

lol, try gedit or some text editor you may have

um, I think Mint has apt-get

in console/terminal

so, apt-get pico? or maybe it has pico

anywho if not apt-get install pico

once it's installed type in terminal

pico /boot/grub/menu.lst

modify what you need to

ctrl^o to write out ctrl^x to exit\


edit: btw, you're going to have to be root to do this

czar960

so far so good. can save the file while root user.

the following looks to be where the deault OS loads.
What do i change?


title Linux Mint 7 Gloria x64, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=/dev/sda2 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
quiet

title Linux Mint 7 Gloria x64, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=/dev/sda2 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic

title Linux Mint 7 Gloria x64, memtest86+
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

amnesia

## timeout sec
# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
# (normally the first entry defined).
timeout 15


(I don't use GRUB, but that's basically what kryptikos said)

czar960

thanks ajay,
got the time part figured out. I will figure out how to switch the default OS later.
but in the mean time, the Update manager in Ubunto was easier. Is this Synaptic Package Manager the same thing? Are there really hundreds of updates to install or do i stick with the "missing recommends"?
Holy cow I just noticed at the bottom of the SPM it says there are 26,812 packages and 1328 installed!!
....any ideas?
34 packages in the missing recommends listed.

later. oh, and thanks for the suggestion of Mint.

eric

amnesia

switch the default OS ? just put whatever you want first at the top


that's the funny think about package managers -- you either spend along time picking through them or just install * lol

Typically, there's a menu on the left
Games
X
System
Networking

each item in the left is pretty much correlates to a cluster of packages within that realm of software

What packages depend on what you want to install.
But, I'd assume installing the recommended packages can't be too much of a bad thing. However installing everything isn't going to kill anything but HD space.. It's really advised to go through and select what you want.

kggy

If you don't have windows install just make a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04, let it manage the partitions, you don't really need more than one partition in Linux systems, so leave just one and let Ubuntu do its stuff.