Subj : Re: I got telnet working To : Spaceman Spiff From : Sniper Date : Mon Jan 10 2005 11:40 am -=> Spaceman Spiff Scribbled to All <=- SS> I am using Telnet from a command prompt/ Is there any better telnet SS> programs for Linux. SS> I tried downloading one, seems all I got was source code. I loaded the SS> development software onto this system, trying to find the compiler SS> c++ ...no luck yet :) SS> Anyway, I am in here with the Telnet software that came with mandrake. SS> This Telnet> prompt is taking back. Flash back from my first UNIX shell SS> with my old IDT SHell Internet account in the early 90's. SS> I tried this command Angus: SS> [mark@localhost mark]$ sfdisk -1 /dev/hda SS> bash: sfdisk: command not found SS> Ok I am a newbie, do I need to be in the dev/hdadirectory for this to SS> work? I am tryino figure out my navigation on the drive, I can see SS> HOME, but no CC drive. Is home the drive, or like My Computer would be SS> in WIndows...except I see no drive with Mandrake. SS> I was playing with Knoppix on another computer and with that I can see SS> both CD ROM and drives, but then I am booting from CD and working out SS> of RAM DRIVE...which I don't think I saw. SS> Maybe just a map would cool, or a WIndows/DOS to LINUX translation SS> manual, lol. Wish I could find the compiler, haha...OK I am lost but SS> this fun anyway. ] SS> Please excuse my ramblings, it is late and I entered the LINUX ZONE.... SS> twilight zone music is playing in the back ground...I think I hear Rod SS> Sterling's voice.... Ok, first, HDA is a hard drive designator. When mounting/unmounting drives you need this information. Drives are normally named in sequence... HDB, HDC, etc.. Yes, your CD rom could be HDB if its on the first cable as the HD itself... it would be the "Slave". Then there are partitions... normally all hard drives have at least one, so, you'd have HDA1 which means (H)ard (D)rive (A) Partition (1) which is normally / or root on the drive. You could also have a HDB which shows up as /cdrom. Anyway, there's alot more to it that that, this is just the down and dirty... :) To move around on an already mounted drive, you just need the old "Dos" type commands... yes, the 2 dots are needed, backs up to the previous directory, or which moves to the "Root" drive. Etc... you can usually use dir or ls or ls -la, to "List" the files... etc... A general help would be to type help at the prompt, or better yet help | more which gives you a list of all the commands and their variables. The "|" and "more" command stops the list from scrolling off the screen :) The best help is man. Just type man at the prompt. Lets say you don't understand what "ls" does... type "man ls " which should show you something like: LS(1) FSF LS(1) NAME ls - list directory contents SYNOPSIS ls [OPTION]... [FILE]... DESCRIPTION List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default). Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuSUX nor --sort. -a, --all do not hide entries starting with . ...snip.. You get the idea. :) Hope that helps. Sniper Killed In Action BBS, telnet://kia.zapto.org Home of the Unofficial SynchroNet Support Network. download the info pack at any of the below sites: http://www.chcomputer.net/USSNET.ZIP http://www.ussnet.org telnet://kia.zapto.org .... Interesting night? - Riker --- MultiMail/Linux v0.45 þ Synchronet þ Killed In Action BBS Telnet://kia.zapto.org .