Re: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-05-10 Thread Lester Cheung
What about tools like discwizard from ibm/seagate. Guess there have a bios extension thingy which actually resides on the hard drive. On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 10:51:58PM +1000, Jon Biddell wrote: At 10:12 30/04/02 +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: Jon Biddell wrote: The reason I ask is I fell

RE: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-04-30 Thread Alex Samad
Did you have to pay for the bios upgrade ? Alex -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matthew Dalton Sent: Tuesday, 30 April 2002 10:13 AM To: Jon Biddell Cc: Slug Subject: Re: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2 Jon Biddell wrote

Re: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-04-30 Thread Jon Biddell
At 10:12 30/04/02 +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: Jon Biddell wrote: The reason I ask is I fell into the trap of installing a pair of 40Gb Seagates ($168 odd each at the moment !!) and my bios would only recognise them as 32Gb An Ultra TX/2 ATA100 controller fixed that, although they

Re: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-04-30 Thread Matthew Dalton
Alex Samad wrote: Did you have to pay for the bios upgrade ? Nope. Just downloaded it, that's all. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-04-29 Thread Matthew Hannigan
looks fine to me. I've read that the ac97 sound can be a little problematical but I'm sure it's fixable by upgrading something or other. btw, you might want to wait for redhat 7.3; it's almost out -- there are beta's available. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-04-29 Thread Kevin Waterson
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 17:02:44 +1000 Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw, you might want to wait for redhat 7.3; it's almost out -- there are beta's available. Umm, if you are referring to skipjack, I was unaware it was a 7.3 beta Kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-04-29 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Kevin Waterson Umm, if you are referring to skipjack, I was unaware it was a 7.3 beta skipjack is indeed the 7.3 beta; I'm intrigued to know what you thought it was. :-) - Jeff -- I came for the quality, but I stayed for the freedom. - Sean Neakums -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

RE: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-04-29 Thread Simon Bryan
:40 PM To: 'Simon Bryan'; 'Slug' Subject: RE: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2 With fear of retribution in mind, I would suggest to replace all Ipex Components ;) Seriously, I actually just put debian woody onto exactly the same machine and had no problems at all. The only thing I

Re: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-04-29 Thread Jon Biddell
At 14:16 29/04/02 +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: Hi all, I am looking at putting RH7.2 on the following machine and wondered if anyone had heard anything good or bad about the system. I would be upgrading to 512MB RAM and a 40GB 0r 60GB HDD. Simon, The spec seems to look fine - the only concern is

Re: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-04-29 Thread Jeffrey Borg
I wouldn't have bothered with the extra expense of the card just make sure there is a /boot partition within the first 32gig or so The linux kernel is perfectly ok with ide disks it just ignores that the bios has to say on the matter My laptop has a 12gb disk in it bios only supports 8gb

Re: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-04-29 Thread Matthew Hannigan
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Kevin Waterson Umm, if you are referring to skipjack, I was unaware it was a 7.3 beta skipjack is indeed the 7.3 beta; I'm intrigued to know what you thought it was. :-) Well strictly speaking, they haven't given a number for the next version, so it skipjack

Re: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-04-29 Thread Matthew Dalton
Jon Biddell wrote: The reason I ask is I fell into the trap of installing a pair of 40Gb Seagates ($168 odd each at the moment !!) and my bios would only recognise them as 32Gb An Ultra TX/2 ATA100 controller fixed that, although they are now hde and hdf...:-( Did you try updating your

Re: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-04-28 Thread Christopher Booth
Hi It's a bit hard to answer positively. Have you checked out the following page at Red Hat? http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/genpage2.cgi?pagename=hcl Chris On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 14:16:27 +1000 Simon Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am looking at putting RH7.2 on the following machine

RE: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-04-28 Thread Pia smith
With fear of retribution in mind, I would suggest to replace all Ipex Components ;) Seriously, I actually just put debian woody onto exactly the same machine and had no problems at all. The only thing I haven't played with on my sirius box is the sound (as it is only acting as a netsaint server,