Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 01:49:31 +0100 (GMT/BST)
From: Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux FDD
Another question before I have a look at it myself:
Has anyone tried getting the driver for the Libretto PCMCIA floppy drive
to work on kernel 2.4.10 or similar?
How about 100CT FIR ?
Anywone else tried SuSE 7.3? What other distributions are popular, and
what are the good and bad points foind?
I think we have occasionally had polls of operating system types
on the list, but I don't recall a breakdown of which Linux distributions
are in use.
I would be interested in knowing what other people are using. and what
hardware they have gotten working, and what hardware is working.
Here is my contribution so far. I could give a detailed step-by-step
procedure if anyone wants it, although I suspect a lot things have
been gone over before...
Old Distribution: Red Hat 5.2
Installation method: Floppy Boot, PLIP Network install
Disk: Toshiba MK4309MAT 4327MB
Current Distribution: SuSE Linux 7.3
Installation method: Hard disk boot, SCSI CD install
Disk: IBM-DJSA-220 20GB
Harware that worked 'out of the box'
SCSI: Adaptec PCMCIA 152x working
LAN: 3COM 3c563 - working
Modem: 3COM 3c563 - works on RH5.2, not yet tested
SuSE
graphics: Xaccel laptop server (commercial Linux X
server)
Audio: 3.8.2-980706 (ALSA v0.5.11 emulation code)
manual
installation, record function not yet tested.
FIR: untried
Floppy: not yet tried
Enhanced Replicator: USB recognised by system, but havn't tested.
Other comments:
The automatic setup for SuSE resulted in an XF86 install which accepted
800x480 as a resolution, but when booted was 800x600 with only 800x480
visible, which was hard to use. I didn't spend time trying to get
800x480 working properly as Xaccel installed and worked very easily.
Although I havn't yet worked out how to get 1024x768 on an external
monitor.
comes with 'libapm - TOSHIBA Libretto BIOS Setup Program' which seems
to work well out of the box.
I used a dedicated logical drive to hide the hibernation area on the
20GB drive as follows:
major minor #blocks name
3 0 19535040 hda
3 1 1566306 hda1 Windows
3 2 1566306 hda2 BSD/OS
3 3 1558336 hda3 Spare
3 4 1 hda4 EXT
3 5 136521 hda5 /
3 6 96358 hda6 swap
3 7 530113 hda7 /var
3 8 2104483 hda8 /opt
3 9 618471 hda9 /home
3 10 80293 hda10 hibernation
3 11 2104483 hda11 /local
3 12 5245191 hda12 /use
3 13 3919828 hda13 spare
Regards,
DigbyT
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Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk
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