I had no problems with:
- a micron millenia XR (but the original HDD - Fujitsu I think,
died after about 6 weeks, replaced with a Maxtor)
- a P200MMX clone (ASUS TX97E / Intel P200MMX)
- an old P120(buggy!) clone (don't know it's guts except for the
Matrox Millenium II PCI video)
I had some probl
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Swartzbaugh, Mr. Richard A. wrote:
>I want to buy a new computer through a mail-order supplier (like Gateway)
>but I want no problems. I've loaded Linux before but could never get past
I recommend going to VAResearch (www.varesearch.com) and getting
your computer through th
That makes no difference at all. If I want to put Linux on my machine,
but have someone else build the hardware, that's completely unrelated.
Nothing defines a *REAL* computer but opinion.
Matt
Jamie D wrote:
>
> a real; computer is one that you build, not one that someone builds for you,
> and
> I want to buy a new computer through a mail-order supplier
> (like Gateway)
> but I want no problems. I've loaded Linux before but could
> never get past
> installing the network card. Has anyone recently bought a mail-order
> computer with a network card and had no problems installing RH5.x?
Thursday, June 18, 1998 12:19 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: in market for new computer; want no problems
>
>
> Rather close-minded of you, don't you think? I happen to have a Dell
> P2/400 sitting in front of me right now that works great, straight off.
> Dell is
Rather close-minded of you, don't you think? I happen to have a Dell
P2/400 sitting in front of me right now that works great, straight off.
Dell is great about mail ordering. Granted, it had windows 95 on it when
it came, but that was EASILY taken care of, and besides, I wouldn't want
someone to
Dell and Gateway sck bottom line
and if it does screw up, forget tech support, (even if you dont put win95 on
it)
> -Original Message-
> From: Dave Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 1998 11:05 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: in
We just bought a little Pentium 200 MMX from a local vendor, and I installed
a Lynksys 10BT network card... since it was NE2000 compatible, it was a
breeze (after I did a DOS boot to run the mfr's config software to disable
the card's PnP mode).
FWIW,
Beth Gemeny
SysAdmin
HHN
> -Original Me
> From: "Swartzbaugh, Mr. Richard A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 13:59:25 +0200
>
> I want to buy a new computer through a mail-order supplier (like Gateway)
> but I want no problems. I've loaded Linux before but could never get past
> installing the network card. Has anyone r
