OK, I see all good messages here and I believe that everyone is in touch with what I am trying to do and my newbie mistakes.
Let me start out with that I have attempted Linux before. I wanted to share my broadband connection across my LAN and learn Apache. I did a bunch of research on IPchains, read up on samba, spent more time on learning "using linux as a firewall" than I care to admit. As you suspected, I went for "the latest and greatest distro" which at the time was Red hat 7.0, only one week after release. I read the install was "much improved" and I "would be up and running in no time". (Ha! :) I read up on partitioning and I thought I knew what partitions I wanted for my application. Redhat thought it new better and picked partitions (mount points?) different than I had expected. I disregarded redhat and went with the partitions I thought best. Anyway, Linux installed but X failed. I wasted many hours floundering around at the prompt trying desperately to remember some Unix commands from school and fix X. I jumped from linux site to linux site reading everything I could (Man, there are alot of Linux sites, one could easily get lost). After much digging I came up with something like "The diamond video card with a weitek chip is unsupported". Don't quote me on those specifics but whatever video card I had was at fault. By this time I was about 3-4 times over the time allotted so I put the project down for another day with more time. About a month or so later I stumbled across a brand new linksys cable/dsl router for $5 at a garage sale and the linux project was dead :) Sooo, here I am today. I no longer need internet sharing or ipchains (unless linux can do it better than a linksys router and Zone alarm running on all the clients.) But I would still like to run samba for file sharing and learn apache. The best hardware I could scrounge up for the task is below: Agenda full tower case 300 watt power supply AIR 586EP Motherboard with onboard SCSI (Adaptec 7870P) 2 PCI slots and 5 EISA AMI Bios Date 12/15/93 The processor is a Pentium running at 66 mhz 32 meg ram Diamond Speedstar 64 PCI (Cirrus Logic Chip CI-GD5434-HC-C) (This is not the same Diamond I had problems with, I put that in a windoz box.) I have 2 nics in the box from the last go round, but I believe I only need one now. Let me know If I should remove one nic to simplify things. The 2 nics are: 3com Fast Etherlink XL PCI 3C905-T4 Linksys Ether16 Lan Card ISA I have 3 full height SCSI drives. After I finish off a little more sheet metal work and add another fan, they will all reside in the full tower. I figure the boot/OS drive will be a Maxtor P1-17S (1.76 GB) The 2 drive's I'd like to software raid are identical Seagate ST410800N (9.1 GB unformatted) Other Miscellaneous hardware include: your standard 1.44 floppy A Sony SCSI CDrom CDU-55s 2 serial, 1 parallel Logitech 3 button mouse. and a CTX 17" monitor CTX 1765S I am currently in need of a loooong 50 pin SCSI ribbon cable w/ about 5-6 drops. Anyone have one they want to get rid of? I think I have answered all the questions. Anything else? As for that C64, It is still up in my attic, in it's original box, in perfect condition, with a few other hardware goodies and many shoeboxes of software. One day when I have a ton of free time (like when I am retired ;-) I will drag it our and fool around. Best, John > Bob George wrote: Hey John! Give us some more details on what you've got to work with, and what you want to do and I'm sure you'll get some good suggestions. Long Live da Linux! - Bob To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
