On Saturday 18 March 2006 07:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I resend this email in text mode since somebody complaint about the > first HTML version, which apparently could only be read in text mode > incl. all formatting characters etc., additionally apparently loading > your server unnecessarily due to HTML mode. > > I am new to Linux (RH C4) and after some weeks of stuffing around to get > even the basics working, I am asking for help. > > My setup: > > Mobo D945GTP (onboard Sigmatel audio, onboard video) > > Processor Intel P640 > > RAM 1GB, 2GB L2 Cache > > HDD 2 off SATAII, WD 160GB in raid 0, > incl. prim. Active C:/ partition with XP Pro SP1 > > HDD 1 off SATAII, SG 160GB NTFS, 1 swap partition 2GB, > 1 Linux root partition 15GB) > > Monitor Hitachi CML171SXW > > Modem External Siemens SpeedStream 4200 (as supplied by > Telstra Bigpond), presently used via USB connection, > Ethernet connected to 2nd PC for 2nd Internet > connection. [snip]
Some quick advice, I have just setup a box in the UK for my father-in-law by phone (pain & suffering) but it's working: Someone reccomends ubuntu, maybe I don't remember the sys-admin, I strongly reccomend SuSE, get 9.3 not 10. Try to resolve your raid as painlessly as you can. Motherboards don't do real raid. Google for fake-raid. Avoid raid here (there ARE good arguments for, just a noobie, motherboard raid uuurgh, tooo hard) Avoid the USB modem. Again real-linux-users can probably make it work, but ordinary mortals will suffer. I bought him a Speedtouch 516 router for UK$ 30. Get an ethernet router! Once you have setup the router (under windoes perchange) then you can start to play James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
