Looks like Red Hat are only just behind you ;-) HTH R -----Original Message----- From: Matt Fairtlough [mailto:nospam [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 01:53 To: sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz Cc: matt [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk Subject: [Sheflug] newbie questions A beginner has teething problems with Linux. Any help much appreciated. I am using Gentus Linux, distributed by Abit, makers of my motherboard (KA7-100). Why? Because the other versions I have tried (SuSE6.4, Debian2.2 and the latest RedHat) crash on installation, my guess is because UDMA100 and in particular, the HighPoint disk controller, is not supported. Has anyone had any experience with installing Linux on a hard drive with an HPT controller? Currently my best option may be to ditch it and use a standard IDE controller instead, but of course I'd rather not leave a potentially useful bit of hardware lying idle. Or has anyone experience of Gentus who could help advise me on migrating to another Linux distribution from it? What I'd like to do is to get a new kernel, configure it to include drivers for my hardware and remove unnecessary drivers and then install the packages provided by e.g. SuSE or RedHat (such as Yast), proceeding more-or-less as if I had installed SuSE or RedHat in the first place. But I don't a) yet know how to do this (for example, I don't have the kernel_sources package), nor b) if it will work in the way I expect, nor c) whether any kernel is available that will allow me to use the HPT disk controller. I want to move to another Linux because a) the Gentus distribution is not a mainstream one b) it is based on RedHat 6.1, and does not seem to come with all the packages it should, e.g. install_source Secondly, mounting the 250M zip drive. I guess I can find a driver somewhere e.g. from the Iomega web site, but I understand there are problems with driving it from Linux and I wondered if there were any guidelines anyone knew of for how to proceed. I don't need it as a boot disk, just for transfer. My setup is as follows (I was gratified to find some of you liked the look of the hardware before I went out and bought it, but I am a little frustrated that I have made such little progress in the weeks since I've bought it: I don't have a stable installation and I can't print, access the net or use the Zip drive yet, nor have I managed to install cdrecord so I can burn my own CDs, so I'm quite a way from a usable solution): I have Win2k installed and plan to install Win98 (sorry...) so I'm looking for a triple-boot option. Currently I have dual-boot via LILO, which was installed in the MBR by Gentus (without warning or choice, by the way) Abit KA-7 100 motherboard with onboard HighPoint UDMA-100 disk controller Athlon 800MHz CPU IBM internal 45GB Deskstar 75GXP hard disk 256MB PC 133 memory Yamaha 8824 internal CD-RW Pioneer 10x internal DVD IDE internal 250MB Zip disk Mitsubishi 19" Diamondtron Plus 51 monitor Diamond Viper 770 ULTRA graphics Soundblaster sound card Lexmark Optra E312 b/w laser printer US Robotics 56K external modem --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Fairtlough m.fairtlough [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk Verification and Testing Group Room 115 Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street Sheffield S1 4DP Tel: (0)114-22-21826 UK Fax: (0)114-22-21810 WWW: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~matt/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sheffield Linux User's Group - http://www.sheflug.co.uk To unsubscribe from this list send mail to - <sheflug-request [at] vuw.ac.nz> - with the word "unsubscribe" in the body of the message. GNU the choice of a complete generation.
[fm] redhat-highpoint install disk 6.2-1.url