RE: [Sheflug] New User

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

> Not sure how many will see this but here goes.

Enough folk will see it as to want to help out. We're all friendly round here
(maniacal grin)

> My machine spec is:
> 
> 1 Ghz Athlon Chip
> 128 Mb ECC SDRam
> 16 Mb Banshee Video
> 2 x 9 Gb DMA 66 Drives (On RAID array)
> 1 x 26 Gb DMA 66 Drive (Used as a data archive)
> SB Live Soundcard
> 1 x 3Com 905 NIC
> 1 x RealTek NIC
> Gigabyte GA7Z-XR Mainboard

Mmmm.... envy. Processor wise, anyhow.

> Its a fairly standard spec that used to fly under NT and Ive temporarily
> switched it back until i can find out a bit more.

Will fly under Linux after a while, no doubt?

> 1.  I cant be sure of disk integrity unless I can get it to load the RAID
> driver on installation.
> 
> 2.  I dont really want to progress the installation any further until I can
> get the network going.

If you can get hold of Mandrake, it is much the same as Red Hat, but optimised
for higher end machines, and has very nice hardware stuff. Version 8 has just
been released, which promises to be a doozy. (Thats good, BTW)

> If there is anybody who could give me any pointers on either of these two
> problems, I would much appreciate it.  This 7.1 release looks exactly what I
> need and want, but being a long time NT user, I just dont have the experience
> of Linux (yet).

See above. Also, SuSE 7.1 is nice. I know it doesn't sound much help, just
saying 'use another distro', but it has to be said that with regards to Red
Hat, whats best isn't always whats most popular (puts on flame retardent suit)
as per Microsoft (lessens flame retardivity)

HTH

-- 
Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.org.uk

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