Gary wrote: > The issue was that F7's install process was in fact keying off of the > FIRST video adapter it found -- the motherboard's -- rather than the > one specified as preferred in BIOS -- the PCI card. That's why -- > when it showed any video at all -- it couldn't start the X server > without having to *immediately* reconfigure from scratch. >
If you check the mainboard's manual, you might discover that there is a jumper on the board for disabling the on-board video chip, if you plan on installing a PCI/AGP video card. > So, now my zip100 was *intimately* involved in system operations, > being the repository of /boot, /proc, and several other critical > partitions. As such, it was being accessed frequently, even though I > *thought* I wasn't doing anything with it, and COULD NOT be ejected, > which I was extremely suspicious of. > I build a lot of machines, so I have developed a fairly cautions 'less is more' philosophy, for installing OS... adding extra HD's, tape drives and other peripheral devices *after* the OS slice has been set, partitioned, and the OS files copied, unzipped, and final configurations of the base install completed. Then, after everything has been checked and rechecked, and run for a few days to burn-in the hardware, I start customising things, and installing apps. The fewer variables, the less chance there is, for me to screw something up!<g> I'm currently working on a nice little OpenBSD Desktop machine, for myself, using an old PII Dell Dimension Tower, that I stuffed 192 MB RAM and a 20 Gig HD into. With an old 8 MB Video card, I have a HUGE screen res (1200 by 1600), and am using FVWM for my X-Windows 'desktop' ... no fancy bells and whistles... and with just Firefox installed at the moment, it runs like a rocket. By the time I am done writing a good .fvwmrc file, to suit my needs, I will have a lot of hours in on the job, so I am filling up a spiral notebook, to have a good record of what I am doing. I will also email the config files to my Red Hat machine, as they are finalised. I, like you, make a respectable number of mistakes, installing and customising an OS. I do not want to lose any of 'the good stuff', if the HD dies, or I have to do a forced total re-install, after spending a lot of hours getting a good set of config files in shape. Over the course of hundreds of installs, my pile of spiral notebooks have probably save the thousands of hours, not having to redesign the wheel, again, and again, and again. -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ http://robertwittig.net/ http://robertwittig.org/ . To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
