RE: Sufficient hardware?

[Ximenes Zalteca <ximenes netset com>]

On 02-Jul-97 Len Philpot wrote:
>I seem to recall seeing somewhere that the Mitsumi FX001 and possibly 
>the FX001D is supported by Linux - can anyone confirm this?

There's a Mitsumi driver in the kernel, other than that, I don't know.

>Is 116 megs enough room for this sort of installation? Should I put 

Well, it's enough for a text-based, pretty basic installation if you're
careful. However, 416 megs (the two drives combined) should be enough for some
X stuff and room to breathe as well :)

>my swap partition on the Maxtor, or divide the Connor up into 100mb 
>and 16mb (for swap)? The reason the Connor is the master is that I 
>was told Conners quite often need to be the master drive when mixed 
>with other makes... (is this true?) This and the CD are my major 

I don't really know if the Connor needs to be master or not, but since the
Maxtor sounds like a newer drive (b/c of it's size), it might be better to use
it as the master. This is b/c, AFAIK, the IDE bus is set to whatever speed the
master can handle (PIO modes or DMA modes).

>concerns. I'm assuming (from what I've heard) that the RedHat install 
>is fairly sophisticated - will it handle creating multiple 
>filesystems on separate physical drives? Or will I need to do this 
>manually after installation?

Yes, it will give you a chance to hop into fdisk to create partitions, etc.
It's fairly simple, but remember to reboot after you do it (I've had trouble
when I don't).

>I understand that Diamond is finally starting to work with X 
>developers, but in a worst-case scenario, I can always run in 
>640x480x4bpp mode if necessary (I'm assuming).

Yes, you can run w/ 16 colors at that res with the VGA16 server. Every
VGA-compatible card ought to support that :) Glanging at the list of cards in
Xconfigurator, it looks like the Diamond Speedstar 64 is supported.

Xi
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