Linux and data storage?

[Janina Sajka]

I have two answers for you.

1.)	First I give you your fish:

rpm -iv [package-name].rpm

2.)	I teach you to fish:

rpm --help 2>&1 |more
man rpm

Or, go to the net and find a copy of Miximum RPM (freely available on
line) and bookmark it.

doc writes:
> Looking for tips on how to install rpm programs.
> Doc Wright
> http://wrightplaceinc.net
> If we can't look at ourselves, and ask, why?
> then where does the learning start?
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Karen Lewellen" <klewellen at shellworld.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 6:23 PM
> Subject: Linux and data storage?
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> This is an odd one, so I hope I ask it in such a way to make sense.
> I do not have a Linux machine.  I have been trying to get this, and
> thought I had one in the he works but it seems that party either made up the
> machines they were offering, or  for some other reason is not coming
> through.
> In any case, I do use a Linux shell service extensively.  I fear almost
> too extensively, as you will understand in a moment.
> The OS on the system i use mostly is dos, and I use nettamer to telnet to
> my Linux shell.
> In the workspace of my shell service i have a great deal of irreplaceable
> files and programs.  I eave them up here, for ease, but I just was
> reminded that this may be a venerable state of affairs.
> Fortunately when the server went down nothing was lost or so it seems, but
> I have a serious factor to consider.
>   My question has two parts.
> first, is there a way to move large amounts of data stored in the
> workspace of a Linux shell service to another location in tact, with
> relative ease,  and without taking all of the data on the entire system?
> second, if my machine was also a Linux one, would this kind of storage be
> easy to do?
> As I said before I do not have such a machine, but this has shaken me up
> enough that if a full Linux or Linux/dos or Linux/windows machine would
> give me some firm safe backup, I will have to start advertising for
> someone to build this for me and encurl the expense.
>   I have too busy a professional life to do this myself, and would rather
> pay someone with the skills than lose valuable time trying to re-invent the
> wheel.
> Thanks,
> Karen
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

janina at freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040