kslaguardia
11-13-2000, 10:36 AM
Okay. I know this will start a flame war (gee, don't these all start this way?). I have a system with the following (troubling areas):
Promise Ultra66 card with 3 HDDs -
30 Gb(66MHz)
13 Gb(66MHz)
10 Gb(33MHz)
DVD Drive on motherboard IDE primary master
HP 9000 series 8x burner on motherboard IDE secondary master
Soundblaster Live! Platinum
ELSA GeForce2 GTS 32Mb video card
My 30Gb and 13Gb HDD are set up as one full FAT32 partition each. Win98 is installed on the 30Gb...and my 13Gb is basically a swap and temp file drive. I also burn CDs from there. My 10Gb drive is all free for Linux. Now, I've installed Mandrake 7.2 on it, and for some reason I cannot go into Gnome, switchdesk is not available in Bash...and I do not like all of the applications it installs. I mean, two CDs, and I know I will NEVER use all of the applications that it comes with. My idea is to use expert and choose all of the little packages that it comes with. Of course, since I am a newbie, I have no idea what most of the packages will do, and what to do if I forget one that I still want. My biggest problem would appear to be the Promise card. I have tried RedHat before, but ran into the problem of it not wanting to install because it could not find my drives. And when I finally got a version that could, it still hung at LIL...
What does this all mean? I have several requirements I would like to have in my system:
1) I need to keep Win98.
2) Streamlined, I want to know what everything is on the system.
3) Lose the redundancy, I do not need 20 different editors on my system.
4) I would like either REALLY good documentation on how to get these buggers to see my hard drives on installation, or I would like it to see them automatically.
That is basically it. I have heard of the wonderful Debian distro, and would like to try it, though I do not know how far I would get on it. Anyone out there with a Promise card and have soemthing other than RedHat or Mandrake on it? Is Mandrake the way to go, but using the expert install instead? Remember, I am still a newbie to Linux, but not to hardware. So I don't need to be talked to like a five year old on most terminology, unless it relates to Linux. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif
Thanks to all and any that can help me, though professional medical help has told me I am clearly beyond help.
Promise Ultra66 card with 3 HDDs -
30 Gb(66MHz)
13 Gb(66MHz)
10 Gb(33MHz)
DVD Drive on motherboard IDE primary master
HP 9000 series 8x burner on motherboard IDE secondary master
Soundblaster Live! Platinum
ELSA GeForce2 GTS 32Mb video card
My 30Gb and 13Gb HDD are set up as one full FAT32 partition each. Win98 is installed on the 30Gb...and my 13Gb is basically a swap and temp file drive. I also burn CDs from there. My 10Gb drive is all free for Linux. Now, I've installed Mandrake 7.2 on it, and for some reason I cannot go into Gnome, switchdesk is not available in Bash...and I do not like all of the applications it installs. I mean, two CDs, and I know I will NEVER use all of the applications that it comes with. My idea is to use expert and choose all of the little packages that it comes with. Of course, since I am a newbie, I have no idea what most of the packages will do, and what to do if I forget one that I still want. My biggest problem would appear to be the Promise card. I have tried RedHat before, but ran into the problem of it not wanting to install because it could not find my drives. And when I finally got a version that could, it still hung at LIL...
What does this all mean? I have several requirements I would like to have in my system:
1) I need to keep Win98.
2) Streamlined, I want to know what everything is on the system.
3) Lose the redundancy, I do not need 20 different editors on my system.
4) I would like either REALLY good documentation on how to get these buggers to see my hard drives on installation, or I would like it to see them automatically.
That is basically it. I have heard of the wonderful Debian distro, and would like to try it, though I do not know how far I would get on it. Anyone out there with a Promise card and have soemthing other than RedHat or Mandrake on it? Is Mandrake the way to go, but using the expert install instead? Remember, I am still a newbie to Linux, but not to hardware. So I don't need to be talked to like a five year old on most terminology, unless it relates to Linux. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif
Thanks to all and any that can help me, though professional medical help has told me I am clearly beyond help.