Re: [newbie] Speaking of Dell and Linux.........

2001-06-17 Thread Brett Hearn
From the Dell website - Q What are Dell's plans for additional Red Hat Linux support for other Dell systems and devices? A Dell currently offers Linux as an option on all PowerEdge Servers. Additionally, Red Hat Linux is available on select configurations of our Precision Workstations, OptiPlex

Re: [newbie] Requesting hardware advice for AMD based machine. jrt

2001-04-27 Thread Brett Hearn
I am running an AMD TBird 1100 MHz on an ABIT KT7A motherboard with VIA KT133 chipset and I have had zero problems related to the mobo. I also have a Voodoo5 5500 video card that is working quite well. I know they are not the best cards for some types of gaming, but I am satisfied with the

Re: [newbie] linux on a notebook

2001-04-19 Thread Brett Hearn
The smallest distro I have heard of is Peanut Linux but it still needs 300 MB. http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/ - Original Message - From: "H.J.Bathoorn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 7:53 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] linux on a notebook On Saturday

Re: [newbie] linux on a notebook

2001-04-19 Thread Brett Hearn
The smallest distro I have heard of is Peanut Linux but it still needs 300 MB. http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/ - Original Message - From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 7:53 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] linux on a notebook On Saturday 14

Re: [newbie] DiskDrake w/ PartitionMagic

2001-04-10 Thread Brett Hearn
I can confirm your observations. I too have just installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 on a dual partition (win98-15GB active, ntfs-15GB blank,10GB unused) 40 GB IBM drive. The installation went without a hitch. I now have Linux partitions at the end of the drive(past 30GB mark and using the remaining