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1 pi-guest 16818 <!-- retain these comments for translator revision tracking -->
2 fjpop-guest 16880 <!-- original version: 11648 untranslated -->
3 pi-guest 16818
4    
5     <sect1 id="linuxdevices"><title>Linux Devices</title>
6     <para>
7    
8     In Linux you have various special files in
9     <filename>/dev</filename>. These files are called devices files. In
10     the Unix world accessing hardware is different. There you have a
11     special file which actually runs a driver which in turn accesses the
12     hardware. The device file is an interface to the actual system
13     component. Files under <filename>/dev</filename> also behave
14     differently than ordinary files. Below are the most important device
15     files listed.
16    
17     </para><para>
18    
19     <informaltable><tgroup cols="2"><tbody>
20     <row>
21     <entry><filename>fd0</filename></entry>
22     <entry>First Floppy Drive</entry>
23     </row><row>
24     <entry><filename>fd1</filename></entry>
25     <entry>Second Floppy Drive</entry>
26     </row>
27     </tbody></tgroup></informaltable>
28    
29     <informaltable><tgroup cols="2"><tbody>
30     <row>
31     <entry><filename>hda</filename></entry>
32     <entry>IDE Hard disk / CD-ROM on the first IDE port (Master)</entry>
33     </row><row>
34     <entry><filename>hdb</filename></entry>
35     <entry>IDE Hard disk / CD-ROM on the first IDE port (Slave)</entry>
36     </row><row>
37     <entry><filename>hdc</filename></entry>
38     <entry>IDE Hard disk / CD-ROM on the second IDE port (Master)</entry>
39     </row><row>
40     <entry><filename>hdd</filename></entry>
41     <entry>IDE Hard disk / CD-ROM on the second IDE port (Slave)</entry>
42     </row><row>
43     <entry><filename>hda1</filename></entry>
44     <entry>First partition of the first IDE hard disk</entry>
45     </row><row>
46     <entry><filename>hdd15</filename></entry>
47     <entry>Fifteenth partition of the fourth IDE hard disk</entry>
48     </row>
49     </tbody></tgroup></informaltable>
50    
51     <informaltable><tgroup cols="2"><tbody>
52     <row>
53     <entry><filename>sda</filename></entry>
54     <entry>SCSI Hard disk with lowest SCSI ID (e.g. 0)</entry>
55     </row><row>
56     <entry><filename>sdb</filename></entry>
57     <entry>SCSI Hard disk with next higher SCSI ID (e.g. 1)</entry>
58     </row><row>
59     <entry><filename>sdc</filename></entry>
60     <entry>SCSI Hard disk with next higher SCSI ID (e.g. 2)</entry>
61     </row><row>
62     <entry><filename>sda1</filename></entry>
63     <entry>First partition of the first SCSI hard disk</entry>
64     </row><row>
65     <entry><filename>sdd10</filename></entry>
66     <entry>Tenth partition of the fourth SCSI hard disk</entry>
67     </row>
68     </tbody></tgroup></informaltable>
69    
70     <informaltable><tgroup cols="2"><tbody>
71     <row>
72     <entry><filename>sr0</filename></entry>
73     <entry>SCSI CD-ROM with the lowest SCSI ID</entry>
74     </row><row>
75     <entry><filename>sr1</filename></entry>
76     <entry>SCSI CD-ROM with the next higher SCSI ID</entry>
77     </row>
78     </tbody></tgroup></informaltable>
79    
80     <informaltable><tgroup cols="2"><tbody>
81     <row>
82     <entry><filename>ttyS0</filename></entry>
83     <entry>Serial port 0, COM1 under MS-DOS</entry>
84     </row><row>
85     <entry><filename>ttyS1</filename></entry>
86     <entry>Serial port 1, COM2 under MS-DOS</entry>
87     </row><row>
88     <entry><filename>psaux</filename></entry>
89     <entry>PS/2 mouse device</entry>
90     </row><row>
91     <entry><filename>gpmdata</filename></entry>
92     <entry>Pseudo device, repeater data from GPM (mouse) daemon</entry>
93     </row>
94     </tbody></tgroup></informaltable>
95    
96     <informaltable><tgroup cols="2"><tbody>
97     <row>
98     <entry><filename>cdrom</filename></entry>
99     <entry>Symbolic link to the CD-ROM drive</entry>
100     </row><row>
101     <entry><filename>mouse</filename></entry>
102     <entry>Symbolic link to the mouse device file</entry>
103     </row>
104     </tbody></tgroup></informaltable>
105    
106     <informaltable><tgroup cols="2"><tbody>
107     <row>
108     <entry><filename>null</filename></entry>
109     <entry>Everything pointed to this device will disappear</entry>
110     </row><row>
111     <entry><filename>zero</filename></entry>
112     <entry>One can endlessly read zeros out of this device</entry>
113     </row>
114     </tbody></tgroup></informaltable>
115    
116     </para>
117    
118     <sect2>
119     <title>Setting Up Your Mouse</title>
120    
121     <para>
122    
123     The mouse can be used in both the Linux console (with gpm) and the X window
124     environment. The two uses can be made compatible if the gpm repeater is used
125     to allow the signal to flow to the X server as shown:
126     <informalexample><screen>
127     mouse =&#62; /dev/psaux =&#62; gpm =&#62; /dev/gpmdata -&#62; /dev/mouse =&#62; X
128     /dev/ttyS0 (repeater) (symlink)
129     /dev/ttyS1
130     </screen></informalexample>
131    
132     </para><para>
133    
134     Set the repeater protocol to be raw (in <filename>/etc/gpm.conf</filename>) while
135     setting X to the original mouse protocol in <filename>/etc/X11/XF86Config</filename>
136     or <filename>/etc/X11/XF86Config-4</filename>.
137    
138     </para><para>
139    
140     This approach to use gpm even in X has advantages when the mouse is
141     unplugged inadvertently. Simply restarting gpm with
142     <informalexample><screen>
143     user@debian:# /etc/init.d/gpm restart
144     </screen></informalexample>
145     will re-connect the mouse in software without restarting X.
146    
147     </para><para>
148    
149     If gpm is disabled or not installed with some reason, make sure to set X to
150     read directly from the mouse device such as /dev/psaux. For details, refer
151     to the 3-Button Mouse mini-Howto at
152     <filename>/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/3-Button-Mouse.gz</filename>,
153     <userinput>man gpm</userinput>,
154     <filename>/usr/share/doc/gpm/FAQ.gz</filename>, and
155     <ulink url="&url-xfree86;current/mouse.html">README.mouse</ulink>.
156    
157     </para><para arch="powerpc">
158    
159     For PowerPC, in <filename>/etc/X11/XF86Config</filename> or
160     <filename>/etc/X11/XF86Config-4</filename>, set the mouse device to
161     <userinput>"/dev/input/mice"</userinput>.
162    
163     </para><para arch="powerpc">
164    
165     Modern kernels give you the capability to emulate a three-button mouse
166     when your mouse only has one button. Just add the following lines to
167     <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename> file.
168    
169     <informalexample><screen>
170    
171     # 3-button mouse emulation
172     # turn on emulation
173     /dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation = 1
174     # Send middle mouse button signal with the F11 key
175     /dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode = 87
176     # Send right mouse button signal with the F12 key
177     /dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode = 88
178     # For different keys, use showkey to tell you what the code is.
179    
180     </screen></informalexample>
181     </para>
182     </sect2>
183     </sect1>
184    
185     <sect1 id="tasksel-size-list">
186     <title>Disk Space Needed for Tasks</title>
187     <para>
188    
189     The base woody installation on the author's computer required 117MB.
190     The installed size for all standard packages was 123MB, with a
191     download size of 38MB; so 278MB of space was needed to install the
192     base and all standard packages.
193    
194     </para><para>
195    
196     The following table lists sizes reported by aptitude (a very nice
197     program, by the way) for the tasks listed in tasksel. The system
198     for which the figures were reported already had all standard packages
199     installed. Note that some tasks have overlapping constituents, so
200     the total installed size for two tasks together may be less than
201     the total obtained by adding the numbers up.
202    
203     </para><para>
204    
205     <informalexample><screen>
206     Task Installed Download Space Needed
207     Size (MB) Size (MB) To Install (MB)
208    
209     desktop environment 345 118 463
210     X window system 78 36 114
211     games 49 14 63
212     Debian Jr. 340 124 464
213     dialup system 28 8 36
214     laptop system 3 1 4
215     scientific applications 110 30 140
216    
217     C and C++ 32 15 47
218     Python 103 30 133
219     Tcl/Tk 37 11 48
220     fortran 10 4 14
221    
222     file server 1 - 1
223     mail server 4 3 7
224     usenet news server 6 2 8
225     print server 48 18 66
226     conventional unix server 55 19 74
227     web server 4 1 5
228    
229     TeX/LaTeX environment 171 64 235
230    
231     simplified Chinese environment 80 29 109
232     traditional Chinese environment 166 68 234
233     Cyrillic environment 29 13 42
234     French environment 60 18 78
235     German environment 31 9 40
236     Japanese environment 110 53 163
237     Korean environment 178 72 250
238     Polish environment 58 27 85
239     Russian environment 12 6 18
240     Spanish environment 15 4 19
241    
242     </screen></informalexample>
243     </para>
244     </sect1>

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