RE: [Sheflug] A potential Linux user needs help to get started

["Dean Rickles" <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

Matt,

if your thinking of dual booting on a 45 gig hdd I would recommend
Mandrake 7.1 as opposed to SUSE. The standard bootloaders can't handle a
dual boot on large disk drives but 7.1 comes with a new bootloader called
Grub which works fine with mine. Otherwise you'll have to use a boot disk
which is a bit of a pain. Mandrake also comes with tonnes of goodies as
well: much better for a newcomer I would suggest.

[That really is a corking machine by the way!]

Dean Rickles
Deptartment of History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Leeds.



-----Original Message-----
From: m.fairtlough@dcs.shef.ac.uk [mailto:nospam [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk]
Sent: 06 July 2000 18:56
To: sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz
Subject: [Sheflug] A potential Linux user needs help to get started


Hello, I'm Matt and I intend to become a Linux user very shortly.  I am
intending to buy a pc from a local shop, and I have got a list of components
that they will assemble for me for < £2,000 including:

Abit KA-7 100 motherboard
256MB PC 133 memory
Athlon 800MHz CPU
Diamond Viper 770 ULTRA graphics
IBM internal 45GB Deskstar 75GXP hard disk

Yamaha 8824 internal CD-RW
Pioneer 10x internal DVD
IDE internal 250MB Zip

Mitsubishi 19" Diamondtron Plus 51 monitor

I also plan to buy a Lexmark Optra E312 b/w laser printer and to connect
my US Robotics 56K external modem

The shop tells me that a) the only motherboards available are now 100MHz
and b) they think that Linux distributions may not work with them, or that
a patch or new kernel must be downloaded for Linux to work.  Does anyone
know if either a) or b) or both are true?  And if so, how to get hold of
a Linux version that supports the 100MHz bus speed.

Does anyone have any comments on the components proposed above?  Can it
work?  I am intending to make the system dual boot Win98/Linux and it will
be a standalone system for home use.

I am thinking of buying Suze Linux by the way.

Many thanks for any help anyone can give,

Matt.

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