Re: newbie curious
no its not safe to assume if it works with mandrake it will work with
slink, ESPECIALLY if it comes to graphics cards and sound cards, maybe
even network cards. i bought that same book, its great, and the cd is
great, i did encounter a problem that the install defaulted to kernel
2.2.12 and did not include a binary driver for my Realtek 8139 graphics
card(which i still dont get why even if it is experimental) after
installing the 2.0.36 kernel i was able to get the network card
working. Slink uses a very old(by today's standards) version of X, and
may not support(fully) graphics cards made in the past year (TNT, TNT2,
G200/G400, S3 Savage series etc) i suggest grabbing a binary server before
you upgrade, or just copy the server from mandrake(copy the config file
too).
it may be a bitch to install, but once its done its well worth it. i've
learned some hard lessons, one of which is that debian is a breeze to
install ..didnt learn that one till i installed IRIX 6.2 ;)
nate
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On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Steve Winston wrote:
>
> I am going to install Debian Gnu-Linux (the version to
> come out bundled with an Oreilly text) on a hard drive
> that already has win98 on it. The same machine has
> linux mandrake 6.0 on a separate hard drive (the
> master drive on this computer), and it works super
> with linux mandrake.
> I have some questions:
> 1. If the computer works with linux mandrake, then am
> I safe to assume that everything will be compatible
> with Debian Gnu-linux?
> 2. Win98 occupies 5gb of a 10gb hard drive. The rest
> of the drive is not partitioned. I will stick the
> debian distribution there. Will the Debian lilo let me
> boot into Win98? Right now, linux mandrake recognizes
> the win98 partition on the slave drive, but when I try
> to boot into windows with lilo, win98 insists it sees
> a nonsystem disk in the a drive and refuses to boot
> up.
> So, I am using the BIOS to switch between the two hard
> drives.
> 3. Is there anything special I should know THAT ISN'T
> COVERED IN THE DOCUMENTATION before I start? Any
> advice some of you have to offer?
> adios, Steve W.
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