I have a few ideas that I would like to submit to linuxquestions.org for their Answers section. Un fortunately I am no where near being a guru (really I'm a newbie) and I need a little help. If you could go to: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...992#post413992 and help me make everything right I would be most grateful.
Thanks

I am not a guru but have some experience. Most of the questions already had an answer. Here are what were unanswered:

> 2- how to create a drive/partition (I don't know how to do this)

Run "cfdisk" (no qoute)

> 3- how to make different file systems

Example run:
mke2fs /dev/hda3 (creates Ext2 filesystem on partition hda3)
mke2fs -j /dev/hda3 (Ext3)
mkreiserfs /dev/hda3 (Reiserfs)

> 5- how to get a hardware/software modem to work (I am not sure about the IRQ # thing with this)

What kind of modem we are speaking about (internal or external). External serial port modem doesn't require configure when running with Kppp or other dial-up programs.

Some of the questions I have are within and about the solution set presented.
The modem I have now is an internal modem. I shorted my computer earlier and it couldn't see my modem anymore. While in the proccess of getting that to work again I discovered that the setserial /dev/ttyS4 line was incorrect: it kept telling me that 4 and 9 were invalid flags for the IRQ so I figured I would ask everyone about it. and see if the solution couldn't be found. (luckily just redoing the first line got my modem working again)
I also want to include how to configure a software modem and an external modem in what I present to them.
Would you know how to make other types of filesystems? Is 'vat' or 'fat32' one? What about for apple?
Awaiting an answer anxiously!
~MIKE~(:

It is "vfat" not "vat". vfat is the kernel module of FAT32. Here is a sample line from /etc/fstab file:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win-c vfat defaults 0 0

I found the below code on one of the forums. Someone asked the same question:

mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/hdxx (to create FAT32 partition from Linux)

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/35825

About apple/mac I have no knowledge. What filesystem does it use? If you know search on Yahoo or Google: "create filesystem xxxx"

HFS IIRC:
http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/hfs/

Looks like you can, I know it can read it anyway, that's usually out of the box/kernel though, no need for third party tools for reading HFS.



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