Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:13:03 +0000
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Linux FDD
>Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 01:49:31 +0100 (GMT/BST)
>From: Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Linux FDD
>Anywone else tried SuSE 7.3? What other distributions are popular, and
>what are the good and bad points foind?
Never tried SuSE on the lib, mostly cos I could never make it work on the
desktop, which didn't inspire confidence (you know the kind of thing -
couldn't find an NE2000 network card, didn't like the video etc)
>
>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
(machine CT50 and 70)
Old distributions: Corel 1.3? (from Dummies Guide to Linux)
Installation method: Dos boot from HD, install from HD
Disk: Tosh 3.2G, dual boot with W95
(this actually worked rather well)
Old: Mandrake 7.0
Installation: Dos boot from HD, install from HD
Disk: Tosh 3.2G, dual boot with W95
Old/current: Mandrake 7.1
Installation: on 50, as above, on 70, install from CD on desktop
Disk: Tosh 3.2G, Tosh 6G, IBM 20G
(best so far but uses rpm 3 and has old libs :( )
Old: Mandrake 8.1 beta
Installation: install from CD on desktop
Disk: IBM 20G
(turned out to be too slow for comfort)
Investigating: Debian Potato 2.2r6
Installation: from dos boot, install from HD...interesting :)
Disk: Tosh 6G (for now)
>
>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.
>
Hardware out of the box working:
Psion/Dacom gold card 28.8K modem/10M lan combo
Lynksys 56k modem/10/100M lan combo PCMLM56
Sundry other lan and combo cards
Note - sound in linux is strange and not consistent between installs. Not
yet resolved, to be investigated.
All installations are dual boot with either w95, w98, or dos.
Neil
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