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Originally Posted by FallenEmpire
1. I made seperate partitions and called them /home /boot and /. What I'm wondering is if they automatically are used or if I have to assign their use. Particularily in the case of swap, does the system see it has a swap partition and use it or am I supposed to take advantage of it manually some how?
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As long as the swap file is defined in /etc/fstab... which I'm sure it is... you don't have to worry about it. It's the same thing as the swap file in Windows, except that it's a partition. Every distro "turns on" the swap partition... and is used as seamlessly as you're used to.
That goes the same for /boot and /home. As long as it's in /etc/fstab with 'defaults' on the line with it, you should be fine. Just as an example, if /dev/hda1 is /boot, /dev/hda2 is swap, /dev/hda3 is root, and /dev/hda4 is /home:
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/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults # #
/dev/hda3 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda4 /home reiserfs defaults # #
That's a loose example, but I hope it helps you out.
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2. What is the command to access the menu (i think it is display) that lets you choose dual head. For some reason when I click on display in System->Administration->Display it asks for my root password and then I type it correctly and it doesn't open. The next time I click on it nothing happens, as if it is running but unseen.
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What distro do you use? You will most likely need to have the video drivers for the card (linux version) as well. Try to update your distro. Else search through the forum for that distro... you'll probably find it. This might need extra work.
EDIT: It will need extra work. Using dual-head is second to getting those config interfaces working. Having your linux drivers for your video card will probably be necessary, so make sure you have those once you get your config interfaces working. Then I don't think it'll be very hard from there.
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3. I have a ton of music files in a parent directory with dozens and dozens of sub-directories. Is there a command line syntax that can be used to copy all the music files (say .mp3's) and move them to a different directory say one called 'music'? I'm thinking something like
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mv -r /parent/*.mp3 /home/music // r as in recursive?
A good command would allow me to specify other music types at the same time, like .mp3 .mpu .wav
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That could end up being a tough one. As far as I know there isn't a '-r' flag to the mv command.
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mv /parent/*.mp3 /home/music
does exactly that... but it will
not go into all the subdirectories and do the same. You'll need to look into the "find" command. I'm sure someone out there will know exactly what to do to accomplish this... but it's waaaaay out of my league. Good luck with that.
Unless you're doing it in a script it's probably easier doing that in Konqueror or Nautilus.
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4. What is the config file I can edit to run commands I want to run when I first log in? (I read something that said to start the program then log out and save settings, but that doesnt work... I have no save settings button.)
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It depends what you mean. There are two ways you can accomplish this. I'm sure there is a similar structure for GNOME, but I use KDE so I'll use that as an example. What that person was talking about was your login session. If you save your login session when you exit your GUI, then it will come up just as you left it. You can go into your Session Manager (in KDE, it's in the control center under KDE components) and set it up to "Restore from previous session" on login. There's also an option to start with a "Manually configured session"
The other thing you can do is find the /home/user/.kde/Autostart folder. There should be something similar to this in GNOME but it's been so long since I used it. Anything you put in the ~/.kde/Autostart folder will be executed when you begin your session, no exceptions. It's basically like the "Startup" menu in Windows. Search around if you have some problems with it... surely if anything goes wrong the problem is amazingly simple to solve.
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5. What's the best way to uninstall a rpm installed with yum. (I have a lot of media players and I just want to stick with one, I'm thinking mplayer.)
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Using something like the "Yum Extender" will make using yum easier to use as a whole. It's a GUI front-end to yum and you can do everything with yum through it. When I used to use Yum, I used Yumex for almost everything... but it
should be
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yum uninstall program
To get a full usage explanation for yum:
gives you the documentation. The 'man' command should work for every available command, too.
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6. Bash is an interpreter right? Does that mean it interprets scripting languages and programming lanuages? If so, which ones?
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There are minds greater than mine that can give you better answers but yes. Bash is its own scripting language and is by far the most common. Googling bash should give you a full reference. Look into the 5 primary linux shells: bash, tcsh, csh, ash, ksh, zsh. Each have their own advantages. Csh, for example, uses the C programming language for scripting.
I hope I got everything I wanted to say! I'll post back if I have more to add.
Good luck