What's the Dealio with initrd, etcfstab, initrd.img inittab, vmlinuz, grub and parbreastions 520

Michael Heiming

Douglas Mayne

gentlemen - gentlemen - YES...Douglas is correct - My HDD is thrashing quite alot (while in Linux) - it still does NOT in win98 - but that may be because it's parbreastions are occupying the outer part of the disk (80GB) -- I just think it's because it always wants to jump fromusr tovar tohome , etc...Trying to install packages, web-browsing-posting and file-management., use Konsole. You know it gets to the point *sometimes* lately, since I'm trying to esplore and do more in Linux, where what I'm typing doesn't appear for a full 1 or 2 seconds (frustrating, because the cursor is not where you think it is)...like a delayed typing - and then also sending the message it kinda hangs...like real bigtime latency. My Cable conn is 8mpbs-1mbps - and I've realized those speeds on rare occbuttion (must be an awesome server, like GRC.com's "Security Now" MP3 programs)

See the thing is too, I know all the lightweight apps for doze (win98 - I hate bloat like XPoop...offended?, apologies, but it's IMO - I never installed any bloatish stuff on 98 (Ok, once I installed AutoCAD 2000 - and it ran ok, believe it or not), -- but it's totally stripped down 98, ...no java, no jscript, no activeX, no vbs, no IE, and certainly no hidden Interent caches, like Content.IE - I even broke the history ;) -- plus I have a Batch file (very simplistic) that wipes cache and stuff on demand. Yet I can watch DVDs using 3 diff software players (albeit, can't do much else while watching).

I know - I know -- I NEED MORE RAM !!!! -- unless I learn how to live "almost" entirely in the terminal for now.

Michael - do you have any suggestions for my PCMCIA woes ?? Kernel woes ?? I'll even take Window Manager -- usage help (howto fire it up)

Thank you