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MaXimum SMOKE · 06-01-2002, 06:05 PM

O.K. redhat 7.3 I don't have that on any of the boxes I've worked on. The closest I got to it was the "skipjack" beta version. Linuxconf, and cfdisk probably are not in the default install of 7.3. RH has been modifying the types of utilities they use to admin. a system. Lately most of the boxes I've done with RH I've used the graphical version of disk partitioning and have done it during the install. They call it disk druid. Your guess may be as good as mine as to what they call it as a command. Open a terminal and type in dis and hit the tab key so it rolls up all the commands that begin with 'dis' If that don't work, I'd try Dis and hit the tab key. I manually partition with it, However, I never have attempted to use it after the initial install. It's great during install... Lets you set your mount points, and everything. You create the nonprimary partition, It builds the type #5. A lot of automation here. A lot of the old utilities that some of us are used to, like netconf, linuxconf, etc. are probably still in the rpm files of one of the redhat disks, but the default install did not request them. Back to the problem at hand. I don't have RH on anything here right now, so I have the book in one hand

It specs a "User Mount Tool", available from Main Menu --> Programs --> System ---> Disk Management. Unfortunately it does not tell me if it sets the config files to do it for each boot. Those files are /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab They can be hand edited. They are plain old text files, that the system reads in at boot, or during other mountings. You may be stuck doing this. My books recommend modifying /etc/fstab with your text editor. Talking to your XP box has to be done with SMB. Samba is the most common service. I am not the one to be talking to on samba. For me, it is a one way street. I use the service to read shares off of Win 9x kernal machines with the linux box as a client. Are we any closer to the answer?

06-01-2002, 06:05 PM	#8
MaXimum SMOKE Member (8 bit) Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 229	O.K. redhat 7.3 I don't have that on any of the boxes I've worked on. The closest I got to it was the "skipjack" beta version. Linuxconf, and cfdisk probably are not in the default install of 7.3. RH has been modifying the types of utilities they use to admin. a system. Lately most of the boxes I've done with RH I've used the graphical version of disk partitioning and have done it during the install. They call it disk druid. Your guess may be as good as mine as to what they call it as a command. Open a terminal and type in dis and hit the tab key so it rolls up all the commands that begin with 'dis' If that don't work, I'd try Dis and hit the tab key. I manually partition with it, However, I never have attempted to use it after the initial install. It's great during install... Lets you set your mount points, and everything. You create the nonprimary partition, It builds the type #5. A lot of automation here. A lot of the old utilities that some of us are used to, like netconf, linuxconf, etc. are probably still in the rpm files of one of the redhat disks, but the default install did not request them. Back to the problem at hand. I don't have RH on anything here right now, so I have the book in one hand It specs a "User Mount Tool", available from Main Menu --> Programs --> System ---> Disk Management. Unfortunately it does not tell me if it sets the config files to do it for each boot. Those files are /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab They can be hand edited. They are plain old text files, that the system reads in at boot, or during other mountings. You may be stuck doing this. My books recommend modifying /etc/fstab with your text editor. Talking to your XP box has to be done with SMB. Samba is the most common service. I am not the one to be talking to on samba. For me, it is a one way street. I use the service to read shares off of Win 9x kernal machines with the linux box as a client. Are we any closer to the answer?