RE: Sufficient hardware?

["Len Philpot" <lphilpot popalex1 linknet net>]

> 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 :)

That's what I figured... I'm just curious (cautious?) about how it's 
setup and split out.

 
> >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).

I'll probably give it a try in DOS, just to see if it will work 
first... since I'm already familiar with DOS and can more easily tell 
what's really happening, hardware-wise.
 

> >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.

Good.

 
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