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Re: I'm a newbie, and I got a few question you will, hopefully, be kind enough to answer.



At this (Sat, May 15, 1999 at 05:04:14AM +0200) day, Barid Bel Medar wrote:
| I got linux redhat 6.0, running on celeron 266, 64MB ram, linux native partition 1.5 GB and linux swap partition 850Mb

Woho, hold that horsie. your using much to much space for the swap partition.
fetch a copy of Instalation-HOWTO that will explain swap -> virtual memory usage.
in a nice configuration of 128MB virtual memory, you can use a magantic 2x128
swap partitions. btw, if i'm not mistaken about it (it's been a while) linux cant
acualy use more then 128 space on one swap partition.

| I got two other parition, 550 Mb each that are on fat 32
| In linux, I can't see those two Hd, I'm aware that linux threat partitions and drives like directories, but I searched for them and I can't seem to find them, how can I find the lost HD?

try looking with fdisk. if you have one IDE drive it should be on /dev/hda[1|2|3|4], if 
you have 2 drives then /dev/hdc[1|2|3|4]. anyhow once you know with file represent your
fat drives, you can mount it with a -t option. invoke the man mount command for more details.

| Second question, I got ati rage 3d pro with 8mb (Able to reach 1024X768 in 32 million colors, higher is possible but my screan wouldn't support it, CTX 15" up to 1024X768) I installed linux with 800X600 resolution, how can I change that?

You need to chenge the setting of your X server. use /usr/X11/bin/XF86Setup.

| Thrid question, how can I define a sound card? I got 64 pci creative sound blaster, and I don't know how I can install it in linux.

For this you probebly have to recompile your karnel and enable sound support.
There is a Karnel-HOWTO. and a very helpfull README file and a Documentation dir in /usr/src/linux.
That is if you have the karnel source installed, if not fetch one from ftp.il.kernel.org.

| Forth question, how can I define a modem (56kbps) in Linux.

Again, HOWTOs are now your best friend. http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO, 
Serial-HOWTO.


-- 
Guy Cohen <guy@spice.org.il>