To automatically mount shares when you boot, you need to an entry in your /etc/fstab file. I am not sure what the entry would look like for remote file share(probally very similar to the other ones except for the device), http://www.google.com or http://fourms.gentoo.org could help with that. As for a beginners distro of Linux I have heard Mandrake is pretty good choice. However if you are willing to learn and put some time into it any one would work. I started off gentoo, which is generally considered hard to install, and just followed the installation handbook with no problems. There are also a few version of knoppix out that made specifically to boot up and make clusters. You can find them at http://distrowatch.com -jon On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 10:54 -0500, Jacob Fugal wrote: > Hello all, > > > > Thanks for your help with mounting windows shares and finding a > gigabit NIC card. It turns out that NetGear GA311 Gigabit NICs are > supported by Redhat Enterprise Linux v3.1. I was able to access > Windows shares via smb://windows_machine/share_name inside Konquerer > and Nautilus. I was also able to mount the shares via mount –t > smb . . . in xterm. Now I just have to figure out how to make the > computer automatically mount the shares on boot up or at least login. > (I’m guessing there is a shell script file executed on boot up or > login.) > > > > Say, is there any consensus on what “brand” or distribution of Linux > is best for the uninitiated (me) trying to get a cluster up and going? > I’ve seen Debian and Redhat so far. I’ve heard one Linux enthusiast > say Debian rules. You have to know what you are doing, but you can do > it. Plus it’s free! But I couldn’t see how to update it or download > security patches or new packages let alone install them. > > > > On the other hand, Redhat Enterprise Linux costs money, but it’s cheap > for students. (It’s only $25 for the download Desktop version or $50 > for the download AS server version for academic subscriptions off of > Redhat.com.) It comes with a nice automatic update feature and a > year’s worth of updates and tech support. I suppose there are more > limits to it than Debian has. It at least feels more MS Windowsy (a > byword to some in the Linux community) in that you install it and run > it and it does a lot of the configuration and controls itself. > > > > Is it reasonable to think that I could “ease” into the Linux world by > starting with Redhat and eventually going to Debian? > > > > Jacob Fugal > > jpfugal@xxxxxxx > > -- Jon Klimowicz jmklimow@xxxxxxx Computer Science MTU Linux Users Group http://lug.mtu.edu CAEL Partner http://me.mtu.edu/cael Get my GPG key at http://mastershake.resnet.mtu.edu/jmklimowGPG.txt
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