From 1ea73eea5ecc6a8ed901316049259aee737ee554 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 19:51:38 +0000 Subject: move manual to top-level directory, split out of debian-installer package --- da/appendix/files.xml | 214 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 214 insertions(+) create mode 100644 da/appendix/files.xml (limited to 'da/appendix/files.xml') diff --git a/da/appendix/files.xml b/da/appendix/files.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7637513a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/da/appendix/files.xml @@ -0,0 +1,214 @@ + + + + + Linux Devices + + +In Linux you have various special files in +/dev. These files are called devices files. In +the Unix world accessing hardware is different. There you have a +special file which actually runs a driver which in turn accesses the +hardware. The device file is an interface to the actual system +component. Files under /dev also behave +differently than ordinary files. Below are the most important device +files listed. + + + + + + fd0 + First Floppy Drive + + fd1 + Second Floppy Drive + + + + + + hda + IDE Hard disk / CD-ROM on the first IDE port (Master) + + hdb + IDE Hard disk / CD-ROM on the first IDE port (Slave) + + hdc + IDE Hard disk / CD-ROM on the second IDE port (Master) + + hdd + IDE Hard disk / CD-ROM on the second IDE port (Slave) + + hda1 + First partition of the first IDE hard disk + + hdd15 + Fifteenth partition of the fourth IDE hard disk + + + + + + sda + SCSI Hard disk with lowest SCSI ID (e.g. 0) + + sdb + SCSI Hard disk with next higher SCSI ID (e.g. 1) + + sdc + SCSI Hard disk with next higher SCSI ID (e.g. 2) + + sda1 + First partition of the first SCSI hard disk + + sdd10 + Tenth partition of the fourth SCSI hard disk + + + + + + sr0 + SCSI CD-ROM with the lowest SCSI ID + + sr1 + SCSI CD-ROM with the next higher SCSI ID + + + + + + ttyS0 + Serial port 0, COM1 under MS-DOS + + ttyS1 + Serial port 1, COM2 under MS-DOS + + psaux + PS/2 mouse device + + gpmdata + Pseudo device, repeater data from GPM (mouse) daemon + + + + + + cdrom + Symbolic link to the CD-ROM drive + + mouse + Symbolic link to the mouse device file + + + + + + null + Everything pointed to this device will disappear + + zero + One can endlessly read zeros out of this device + + + + + + +Setting Up Your Mouse + + + +The mouse can be used in both the Linux console (with gpm) and the X window +environment. The two uses can be made compatible if the gpm repeater is used +to allow the signal to flow to the X server as shown: + +mouse => /dev/psaux => gpm => /dev/gpmdata -> /dev/mouse => X + /dev/ttyS0 (repeater) (symlink) + /dev/ttyS1 + + + + +Set the repeater protocol to be raw (in /etc/gpm.conf) while +setting X to the original mouse protocol in /etc/X11/XF86Config +or /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. + + + +This approach to use gpm even in X has advantages when the mouse is +unplugged inadvertently. Simply restarting gpm with + +user@debian:# /etc/init.d/gpm restart + +will re-connect the mouse in software without restarting X. + + + +If gpm is disabled or not installed with some reason, make sure to set X to +read directly from the mouse device such as /dev/psaux. For details, refer +to the 3-Button Mouse mini-Howto at +/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/3-Button-Mouse.gz, +man gpm, +/usr/share/doc/gpm/FAQ.gz, and +README.mouse. + + + +For PowerPC, in /etc/X11/XF86Config or +/etc/X11/XF86Config-4, set the mouse device to +"/dev/input/mice". + + + +Modern kernels give you the capability to emulate a three-button mouse +when your mouse only has one button. Just add the following lines to +/etc/sysctl.conf file. + + + +# 3-button mouse emulation +# turn on emulation +/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation = 1 +# Send middle mouse button signal with the F11 key +/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode = 87 +# Send right mouse button signal with the F12 key +/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode = 88 +# For different keys, use showkey to tell you what the code is. + + + + + + + + Disk Space Needed for Tasks + + +The base sarge installation for i386, including all standard packages, +requires 178MB of disk space. + + + +The following table lists sizes reported by aptitude for the tasks listed in +tasksel. Note that some tasks have overlapping constituents, so the total +installed size for two tasks together may be less than the total obtained by +adding the numbers up. + + + + +Task Installed Download Space Needed + Size (MB) Size (MB) To Install (MB) + +Desktop 1537 521 2058 +Web server 71 21 92 +Print server 240 83 323 +Mail server 41 12 53 +File server 85 34 119 +SQL database 108 33 141 + + + + -- cgit v1.2.3