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Simpleton
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 Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 10:23 am Post subject: Some terminology questions.. |
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Ok, so I should know these from my windows use but I wanted clarification so I can install gentoo successfully...
what is "broadcast address"?
and "network mask" is that just the Subnet Mask ( 255.255.255.0 thing? )
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kraylus
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| Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 10:27 am Post subject: |
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not too keen on some of the terminology myself but i believe that broadcast address is the range of IPs that you're on.
for example, if you have a gateway computer dividing the internet connection to other PCs in the house and the gateway's internal IP is 192.168.0.1 then the broadcast would be 192.168.0.XXX (a range of 2-255 i think).
dont take my word for it though. any reason why you're asking?
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| Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 10:40 am Post subject: |
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well I'm on a uni lan and the broadcast address thing kind of stumped me, I thought it may be something like what you said. Though on the network the ip's are statically assigned I believe, so I hope it will still work.
also, maybe a few small things you can help me on...
my partition is set like this
C: Win98 (fat32)
D: Winxp (fat32)
E: Files (fat32)
F: Gentoo Boot (ext2)
G: Gentoo Swap
H: Gentoo Root (ext2)
would I be correct in assuming that my Gentoo Boot would be specified as /dev/hda4 ?? and would Grub refer to it as (hd0,3) ??
and lastly where is says about configuring the /etc/fstab..... what command do I use to edit the fstab.conf file?
thanks, and sorry for the hassles... |
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klieber
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| Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 11:45 am Post subject: Re: Some terminology questions.. |
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| Simpleton wrote: | | what is "broadcast address"? |
It's the IP address that specifies "all hosts" on your network.
| Simpleton wrote: | | and "network mask" is that just the Subnet Mask ( 255.255.255.0 thing? ) |
Yes.
BTW, both of these questions are answered by doing a simple google search.
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nate
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| Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2002 10:32 pm Post subject: Partition stuff |
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| Anonymous wrote: |
my partition is set like this
C: Win98 (fat32)
D: Winxp (fat32)
E: Files (fat32)
F: Gentoo Boot (ext2)
G: Gentoo Swap
H: Gentoo Root (ext2)
would I be correct in assuming that my Gentoo Boot would be specified as /dev/hda4 ?? and would Grub refer to it as (hd0,3) ??
and lastly where is says about configuring the /etc/fstab..... what command do I use to edit the fstab.conf file?
thanks, and sorry for the hassles... |
Sounds about right. Though the drive letter is only a windows thing  And yes Grub will see /dev/hda4 as (hd0,3).
As for the fstab.conf file. hmmm... I always use a text editor to edit it. I don't think there is a configurator on gentoo (though I may be wrong).
Check out http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/build.xml#doc_chap16 to see how fstab.conf is formated.
Hope this helps,
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Houdini
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| Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2002 5:45 am Post subject: broadcast address |
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disclaimer: this assumes your uni's network doesn't suck 
if your IP address is w.x.y.z, your broadcast address will almost always be w.x.y.255
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delta407
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| Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2002 5:52 am Post subject: Re: broadcast address |
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| Houdini wrote: | disclaimer: this assumes your uni's network doesn't suck
if your IP address is w.x.y.z, your broadcast address will almost always be w.x.y.255 |
No, this assumes you have a netmask of 255.255.255.0. |
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