Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-22 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 11:44 PM 3/22/2004 -0500, Karthik Vishwanath wrote: Which driver(s) must I get from nvidia? I can get to their download site (nvidia.com/object/linux.html), but am unsure what I need to download. I got the latest version which gives me a file: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run. # sh NVIDIA-Linu

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-22 Thread Karthik Vishwanath
Which driver(s) must I get from nvidia? I can get to their download site (nvidia.com/object/linux.html), but am unsure what I need to download. I got the latest version which gives me a file: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run. # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run quits with a series of

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-22 Thread joy
Karthik Vishwanath wrote: Hello, I recently installed the 3.0 debian linux (on an AMD 1500 pc) and am learning the ways of debian packaging. I obtained a netinst iso, burned the image and successfully rebooted back into debian. Next, I used tasksel get all the packages that seemed relevant. Someh

switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-22 Thread Karthik Vishwanath
Hello, I recently installed the 3.0 debian linux (on an AMD 1500 pc) and am learning the ways of debian packaging. I obtained a netinst iso, burned the image and successfully rebooted back into debian. Next, I used tasksel get all the packages that seemed relevant. Somehow I missed choosing XFree8

Re: Linux 0.99.15 (historycal question)

2004-03-22 Thread chuck gelm
I found a site http://linux.ka.nu/ which has slackware 1.1.2 and i thought to give it a try on my 486 machine. The problem is that i have a 6.4GB hard drive :-) If you are simply trying to run linux on an 80486 why not try a current kernel. I ran kernel 2.2.19 on an 80486dx33 with 32 MB of RA

Re: Linux 0.99.15 (historycal question)

2004-03-22 Thread 3aoo-cvfd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I found a site http://linux.ka.nu/ which has slackware 1.1.2 > and i thought to give it a try on my 486 machine. The problem > is that i have a 6.4GB hard drive :-) If you are looking for something to run on your 486, have a look at BL3. It is designed for old PCs w

Re: Linux 0.99.15 (historycal question)

2004-03-22 Thread caszonyi
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 05:27 PM 3/22/2004 +0100, pa3gcu wrote: > >On Sunday 21 March 2004 22:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > Does anybody on this list knows which is the maximum size of a harddrive > > > that linux 0.99.15 can boot on ? > > > >No idea, how

Re: Linux 0.99.15 (historycal question)

2004-03-22 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 05:27 PM 3/22/2004 +0100, pa3gcu wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 22:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > Does anybody on this list knows which is the maximum size of a harddrive > that linux 0.99.15 can boot on ? No idea, however one rule of thumb must be, BIOS support, if the bios supports 30G

Re: Linux 0.99.15 (historycal question)

2004-03-22 Thread pa3gcu
On Sunday 21 March 2004 22:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > Does anybody on this list knows which is the maximum size of a harddrive > that linux 0.99.15 can boot on ? No idea, however one rule of thumb must be, BIOS support, if the bios supports 30G drives then that will possably be your li