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100% newb - please help
Post 41283 by Otacon716 on Wednesday 1st of October 2003 11:02:21 PM
10-02-2003
try Knoppix. A year ago, i was quite intimidated by Linux do to its complexities. I used Windows and Macs for years and moving to Linux was a serious matter. Every distro I tried i was unhappy with until my cousin (who happens to sell linux distro's) gave me some copies of a few distros. The one that I really like is Knoppix. It is by far the easiest one to install and you can try it without even installing it. It is known as a Live CD. Just pop in the CD into your drive and reboot. When the computer boots up it should dive into the knoppix launcher where you can start linux and have a full OS complete with all types of softwares. Everything is auto detect so you can see if you have any trouble before you decide to install. Once you see that you would like to have it on your system, just goto www.knoppix.net and look at the FAQ/DOC on how to do HD-Install. It only takes a few keystrokes and it is very easy. Believe me, im a complete newbie and so far day by day, I'm finding learning linux is becoming not so difficult as it was before thanx to knoppix.
By the way, Use partition magic to create a partition for linux right after your primary partition (most likely c
. from there, create a swap partition right after the linux partition. Make sure these are all logical and keep only C: as primary. This shouldnt give you any problem as you mentioned in the other post. Anyway if you need further help, E-Mail me for quick reply. Best of luck.
By the way, Use partition magic to create a partition for linux right after your primary partition (most likely c
. from there, create a swap partition right after the linux partition. Make sure these are all logical and keep only C: as primary. This shouldnt give you any problem as you mentioned in the other post. Anyway if you need further help, E-Mail me for quick reply. Best of luck.|
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findfs
FINDFS(8) System Administration FINDFS(8) NAME
findfs - find a filesystem by label or UUID SYNOPSIS
findfs NAME=value DESCRIPTION
findfs will search the block devices in the system looking for a filesystem or partition with specified tag. The currently supported tags are: LABEL=<label> Specifies filesystem label. UUID=<uuid> Specifies filesystem UUID. PARTUUID=<uuid> Specifies partition UUID. This partition identifier is supported for example for GUID Partition Table (GPT) partition tables. PARTLABEL=<label> Specifies partition label (name). The partition labels are supported for example for GUID Partition Table (GPT) or MAC partition tables. If the filesystem or partition is found, the device name will be printed on stdout. The complete overview about filesystems and partitions you can get for example by lsblk --fs partx --show <disk> blkid EXIT STATUS
0 success 1 label or uuid cannot be found 2 usage error, wrong number of arguments or unknown option AUTHOR
findfs was originally written by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> and re-written for the util-linux package by Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>. ENVIRONMENT
LIBBLKID_DEBUG=all enables libblkid debug output. SEE ALSO
blkid(8), lsblk(8), partx(8) AVAILABILITY
The findfs command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils /util-linux/>. util-linux March 2014 FINDFS(8)