Re: [Debian: XFree86] Minimal requirements
At 11:46 07.08.1999 -0400, you wrote
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MK>Hi Michelle;
MK>
MK>I don't believe that Linux (any distribution) and XFree will both fit
MK>on your ZIP disk.
I must make a srtiped down Version
MK>You can not install X without "graphic card dependencies". That is,
MK>to display X sessions on your computer there must be an xserver that
MK>"knows how" to speak to your graphics hardware.
Why does it work with DOS and the 640x480x256 Mode ???
MK>OTOH, you can install as many different xservers on any one machine
MK>as you want (though only one is the default).
I have seen it !!!
MK>The configuration files for X are in /etc/X11/ (and _might_ have to
MK>be different for each of your different machines).
Can I have several config files with a menu to choose which one at Startup ???
MK>NIC's are usually modules and generally other than taking up a little
MK>room on the hard drive there is usually no problem with having NIC
MK>modules for cards not actually present in the machine.
The NIC modules are very small And they will be around 200 Kbyte max.
MK>It sounds to me as though you want to do an installation on a machine
MK>(to a zip disk?) and then use that same installation on other
MK>machines? Doing so is not "trivial"!
MK>
MK>During installation a number of things happen that are specific to
MK>the machine that the installation is actually occurring on...
MK>Hostname and IP address is set as well as some hardware identification.
To do that, I need a startup menu, because I use a
fixed Network with cable modem and DHCP and sometimes PPP
MK>While I have now several times moved either a SCSI or a IDE hard drive
MK>from one machine to another (that contained a full, bootable, Linux
MK>system) and actually had the target machine work, I believe that there
MK>was a _lot_ of luck involved!
Thanks for your answer
Webmistress Michelle
form Strasbourg
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