Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-09-04 Thread Russell Shaw
TR wrote: ATI Radeon 7500 64B/Dual Head I use Woody with a backported X 4.3.0. My Radeon 7500 works fine. I haven't tried it with the standard woody X though. I have a Radeon 9800 (128mb ddr), no luck in finding what would work for it. Does anyone know of any developments? I'm using a radeon 7000

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-09-03 Thread TR
On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 23:43:54 +0200 Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > I have a Radeon 9800 (128mb ddr), no luck in finding what would work > > for it. Does anyone know of any developments?... > I don't know exactly, but since it is quite new, perhaps you have > to/may be able to use

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-09-03 Thread Albert Dengg
... > I have a Radeon 9800 (128mb ddr), no luck in finding what would work for it. Does > anyone know of any developments? ... I don't know exactly, but since it is quite new, perhaps you have to/may be able to use ati binary only driver they supply...don t now for wich versions of XFree86 it is

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-09-03 Thread TR
> > > >ATI Radeon 7500 64B/Dual Head > I use Woody with a backported X 4.3.0. My Radeon 7500 works fine. I > haven't tried it with the standard woody X though. I have a Radeon 9800 (128mb ddr), no luck in finding what would work for it. Does anyone know of any developments? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-09-03 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:19:57PM -0400, Hershel Robinson wrote: > > >I have a new machine on order. The more interesting items are: > > > > > >Mobo: Gigabyte 7VA KT400 + Sound/AGP8X/DDR400 > > >AMD Athlon XP 2000Mhz > > >ATI Radeon 7500 64B/Dual Head > > >UDMA 40Gig 7200RPM > > > > > >My first qu

RE: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-09-02 Thread Hershel Robinson
> >I have a new machine on order. The more interesting items are: > > > >Mobo: Gigabyte 7VA KT400 + Sound/AGP8X/DDR400 > >AMD Athlon XP 2000Mhz > >ATI Radeon 7500 64B/Dual Head > >UDMA 40Gig 7200RPM > > > >My first question is will I have any difficulty with these > hardware pieces? > > > You will

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-09-02 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:06:04AM -0400, Hershel Robinson wrote: > > > My thoughts are to set up: > > > > > > 10G Windows 2K system and software > > > 10G Shareable data (FAT?) > > > > On the same machine, it's pretty well got to be FAT... but you could > > put the shared data on the machine you'r

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-09-01 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:04:06AM -0400, David Crane wrote: > I think you only created 4 primary partitions. It doesn't sound > like you created an extended partition holding logical partitions, > which is what W2K would have complained about. It is a good idea > to create the slew of linux p

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-09-01 Thread David Crane
On Sunday 31 August 2003 11:43 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: > I took its 40 gb drive, and installed Win2k on it. Gave it 15 gb > of the drive as NTFS. ... > Then I created a 5 gb extended partition, and formatted it FAT32, > so that the two installs could share data. ... > Created a 512 mb swap partit

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-09-01 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 07:55:13PM -0400, David Crane wrote: > * PLEASE REPLY TO THE LIST WITH ANY CORRECTIONS TO THE > FOLLOWING, SINCE IT WOULD BE USEFUL FOR A HOWTO. * Bah. You make it MUCH harder than it needs to be. My Stinkpad 600E is dualbooting Sid and Win2k, without all these s

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning - ideas

2003-09-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
Hi, On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 17:30:41 -0700 (PDT), Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _both_MAILED!_and_ posted in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ... > > .._silent!_ fans. > > fans are usually quiet... it's the air that's noisy, air that wanna > pass thru them t

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning - ideas

2003-09-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya arnt On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > have lots of nice fans ... at least 3 chassis fans > > 2 by the cpu/power pully and add one or tw more fans in the front > > of the (midtwoer) case miss spellingz galore :-) > .._silent!_ fans. fans are usually quiet... it's the a

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-08-31 Thread David Crane
On Sunday 31 August 2003 10:03 am, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 06:35:03AM -0400, Hershel Robinson wrote: > > My second question is about partitioning for a dual boot with > > Windows 2000. I need the Windows system, at least for now, for > > work purposes. I also may want to store image

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-08-31 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 06:35:03AM -0400, Hershel Robinson wrote: > I have a new machine on order. The more interesting items are: > > Mobo: Gigabyte 7VA KT400 + Sound/AGP8X/DDR400 > AMD Athlon XP 2000Mhz > ATI Radeon 7500 64B/Dual Head > UDMA 40Gig 7200RPM > > My first question is will I have an

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-08-31 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:24:06 +0100, John Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I've had ext2 running on massive partitions in the region of 60GB > > upwards. Only thing with ext2 is that if the system doesn't > > shutdown correctly it will scan the drives for

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-08-31 Thread Chris Wilcox
I have a new machine on order. The more interesting items are: Mobo: Gigabyte 7VA KT400 + Sound/AGP8X/DDR400 AMD Athlon XP 2000Mhz ATI Radeon 7500 64B/Dual Head UDMA 40Gig 7200RPM My first question is will I have any difficulty with these hardware pieces? My second question is about partitioning

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-08-31 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya hershel On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Hershel Robinson wrote: > I have a new machine on order. The more interesting items are: > > Mobo: Gigabyte 7VA KT400 + Sound/AGP8X/DDR400 > AMD Athlon XP 2000Mhz have lots of nice fans ... at least 3 chassis fans 2 by the cpu/power pully and add one or t

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-08-31 Thread John Stevenson
I've had ext2 running on massive partitions in the region of 60GB upwards. Only thing with ext2 is that if the system doesn't shutdown correctly it will scan the drives for errors on the re-boot which can take AGES with larger partitions. You can easily (and in my own experience safely) conver

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-08-31 Thread John Stevenson
I have a new machine on order. The more interesting items are: Mobo: Gigabyte 7VA KT400 + Sound/AGP8X/DDR400 AMD Athlon XP 2000Mhz ATI Radeon 7500 64B/Dual Head UDMA 40Gig 7200RPM My first question is will I have any difficulty with these hardware pieces? You will probably have problems getting

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-08-31 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 04:55:19 -0700 (PDT), Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > hi ya hershel > > On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Hershel Robinson wrote: > > > I have a new machine on order. The more interesting items are: > > > > Mobo: Gigabyte 7VA KT400 + Sound/AGP8X