On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 5:13 am, Aaron West wrote: > > I'm new to this list and wanted to ask a few questions. > I'm planning on trashing my Windows2000 machine in favor of a dual > boot Windows2000 / Mandrake 9.1 system. My idea is to have the > Linux box become my main desktop system. The > current hard drive I use with Windows is a bit small at > 15GB. I am in the market for a higher capacity drive - > anything from 80GB up - and wanted to get some advice before > I buy anything. Are there any drives I should stay away from > or is just getting any IDE drive (like a Maxtor DiamondMax > Plus 7200rpm IDE) going to work. I'd like to get the new > hard drive in, install 9.1 on it, and then hook up my > current 15GB drive as a slave for possibly holding all my > music data. > Hi, Aaron. The Maxtor drive is the one I installed a couple of months ago, so yes, it's fine. There won't be any problem in using the second drive for your music data - just don't have it ntfs. If you want to make it available to both systems, use Mandrake Control Centre to make it vfat - both Mandrake and windows will read and write.
> This sound fine? Also, is there a list of supported > peripherals for 9.1 anywhere? There is no definitive list. You will find a lot of information on our TWiki pages http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/HardwareCompatibility Other links that will help you can be found on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/NewbieFriendly One tip when using the TWiki site. If you can't spot what you want in the Index page (link on the blue bar), use the Quick Search on the right-hand side below the side-panel entries. That does a complete text search to find likely entries for you, whereas the Go panel at the top needs you to know the TWikiWord for the required entry. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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