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
