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Operating Systems Linux Downloading Linux Post 99359 by Tammy on Thursday 16th of February 2006 02:17:55 PM
Old 02-16-2006
MySQL Downloading Linux

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Originally Posted by RTM
First off, Smilie what a lousy instructor for not giving some info on what is on the cd and what to do. Of course, that's just my opinion.

Second, Smilie STOP! Before you completely blow away your XP, you really need to know what you are doing.

This sounds like it's going to load a full-blown Linux distribution on your hard drive. If you don't have the space, then you would need to re-partiton the hard drive, taking some space away from XP if you have any extra unused space.

The first thing you should do is SAVE any important files (pictures, word documents, spreadsheets, recipes, whatever...) to some other hard drive or to a cdr. Hopefully, you haven't gone too far in trying to get Linux on your system already. (I can't believe that your instructor would not have mentioned all of this or that the book has nothing about it )

Do you know what Linux is on the cd? May help in giving direction.
I agree with your comment about the instructor. I thought that is where I would get the help.

I know nothing about how to re-partition. Is downloading a full distribution of Linux a bad thing? I am trying to get hold of someone at my college helpdesk for assistence though I am not sure if I will get any. I found some information in the back of the book about accessing UNIX/Linux .. It is not helping a thing. Now that I know I have limited space, I have to fix this problem first by partitioning before I can really do anything else so I have to find out how to partition.

I appreciate that you are trying to help!

Can Linux be used in place of XP?
 

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LINSYSFS(5)						      BSD File Formats Manual						       LINSYSFS(5)

NAME
linsysfs -- Linux system file system SYNOPSIS
linsys /compat/linux/sys linsysfs rw 0 0 DESCRIPTION
The Linux system file system, or linsysfs, emulates a subset of the Linux sys file system and is required for the complete operation of some Linux binaries. The linsysfs provides a two-level view of devices. At the highest level, PCI devices themselves are named, according to their bus, slot and function in the system hierarchy. PCI storage devices are listed in the scsi_host class with a device symlink to the PCI directories of the devices. Each device node is a directory containing some files and directories: host A place holder for storage host information. pci_id A directory for the pci_id that contains either the device information or another directory structure for a PCI bridge. Each host node of scsi_host is a directory containing some files and directories: proc_name The Linux registered driver name for these devices. device A symlink to the PCI device directory. FILES
/compat/linux/sys The normal mount point for linsysfs. /compat/linux/sys/class/scsi_host The storage host node. /compat/linux/sys/devices/pci0000:00 The PCI device hierarchy node. EXAMPLES
The most common usage follows: mount -t linsysfs linsys /compat/linux/sys where /compat/linux/sys is a mount point. SEE ALSO
nmount(2), unmount(2), linprocfs(5), pseudofs(9) HISTORY
The linsysfs driver first appeared in FreeBSD 6.2. AUTHORS
The linsysfs driver was derived from linprocfs by Doug Ambrisko. This manual page was edited by Doug Ambrisko, based on the linprocfs(5) manual page by Garrett Wollman. BSD
February 5, 2007 BSD
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