ibi wrote:
>
> I'm thinking about upgrading my MMX/Intel/64-EDO/RAM and A-Open video
> card. Any suggestions? I run a W98/L-M6.0 system, but I want a
> Linux-friendly box.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pj
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm in the process of transferring my primary box from L-M 6.1 on a
P200MMX/64-EDO/4GB/STB Nitro-3D box to L-M 7.0 on a
K6-2/400/64-PC100/20GB/Voodoo3-2000 box. The speed difference isn't
major on boot, etc, but you notice things like Netscape Mail being a lot
quicker about deleting a message and displaying the next one. And Quake2
is intensely fast, even though I haven't got the GL drivers working yet.
Turns out hard disks have gone mad, 20GB was the SMALLEST thing I could
find at Fry's. I made the mistake of formatting it as one big 19.5 GB
partition and now my inodes are 4096K :-) You should chop up the disk
for efficiency. Then again, I never got past 60% on my 4GB disk, so what
do I care if I am wasting space? Buy CD-R for backup, not Jaz or Zip or
whatever. If you must have Iomega, buy the SCSI version, or at least
ATAPI.
Mandrake 7.0 is nice, but here's my gripes (gotta have some):
FTP install failed repeatedly on a Compaq DeskPro 2000 with a 3Com 905.
Errors were in the perl scripts behind DrakX and usually seemed to deal
with PCI bridge. Network activity was very slow before failure, which
always occured during the "search for packages" phase. Switched to RH6.1
for that machine, which worked flawlessly.
I did a Custom install for my home machine and was unimpressed by the
level of custom -- next time, I'll choose expert so I can pick my
packages.
Jack
