On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Kazik Malenczak wrote:
> I'd like some advice on performance issues with the following
> I have an AMD 266 machine with :
>
> S3 Trio video card 4MB
> Adaptec 2940 SCSI host
> 3COM 905 Boomerang 10/100 net card
>
> With
> 4 GB sda
> 8GB sdb both at 40 Mbs
>
> and a Seagate 20GB on hda
>
> I would like to install
>
> Windoze 2K server
> Win 98 SE
> And Debian Linux from a Knoppix Live CD
>
> Could someone please offer how best to configure and install all the above
> so as to attain best performance on the machine: ie. Where to put what (swap
> files etc) and the best way to install ie what first.
Well there's a million answers to this one...
I'd probably partition /dev/hda as 2 FAT32 partitions, Install Win98 on
the first, Win 2K on the second... fiddle until you get that right, maybe
checking with knoppix to make sure stuff is on the partition you expected.
Once done, especially if the BIOS has a boot from SCSI option, or the
controller can do it stick / on the 4GB drive along with say 512MB of swap
(you didn't tell us your RAM capacity, usually swap=2xRAM roughly). Then
put another 512MB of swap on the 8GB drive and also the /usr and /home
partitions for example.
As for boot loader options well I'd try for plain old /dev/hda plus make a
boot floppy if/when it asks. Alternately you may try the first sector of
the / partition - if it fails you have the floppy which will work - plus
knoppix if the floppy fails ;-)
Now for X, the video card you have is putting it bluntly... crap by
today's standards so you're not going to be happy playing games on it. You
should manage to get 1024x768 at 8bits/pixel depth (256 colours), start
with that for the initial config. You can always backup the
/etc/X11/XF86Config file and try reconfiguring later. Or if it's just for
a server forget all of the above and just don't install the GUI and don't
select "start in Graphics" if/when it asks.
All the stuff here applies to Generic Linux Distributions, I don't pretend
to know enough about Debian and Knoppix insalls to advise specifics.
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