Some of your questions have aleady been answered but I have done a little
documenting of my home system so take a look;
http://www.on-net.net/~jsprag/lab.htm
and;
http://www.on-net.net/~jsprag/linuxnet.htm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A newbie!
>
> New...!
>
> - I have a copy of Red Hat obtained from a Australian PC magazine.
> - I have managed to create a partition on Drive D (the slave) using the
> advice in the book associated with it, and
> - I have put in a Linux installation.
>
> But...
> - The system doesn't flash up with XWindows like it should,
> - I installed the LILO in the Master Boot Record so that I should be able
> to DECIDE whether to boot under Linux or Win95 but this doesn't
> happen/work,
> - I have to boot off the boot disk in the A drive (fd0 ???),
> - I have since changed the configuration of the machine's cards, etc, and
> - I feel inclined to install it all again on another disk (a slave) on
> another machine.
> HOWEVER,
> - I could do it on a dedicated machine.
>
> My aspirations are to have a small LAN at home with several machines
> hanging off a 10BaseT 'Ethernet' mini-hub, including one dedicated to the
> local Amateur Radio packet network. Off the hub: under WIN 95, the children
> would have a slowish 486, my wife and I would have another slow 486 for our
> studies; under Linux 386 machine for me to play with; under Win 3.1 or
> Linux I'd have a radio packet 286/386 connected; we'd share a printer with
> its own print-server card... (and the fairies at the end of the garden
> could also have one too.) I have hardware for all that.
>
> Any thoughts, anyone? Should I put Linux on its own box, or try to have
> dual-booting?
>
> Peter Ellis
> Canberra
> Capital city of Australia
