[Elecraft] Linux - Summary

[Rich Lentz]

Thought that you would want to know the results.

Red Hat - 8
Mandrake - 5
SuSe -   1
Smothwall - 1

Decided on Red Hat.  If you want to down load - three important criteria
1) be on a high speed connection  - Cable.  2) Try a college mirror on
Saturday night/Sunday morning - They were 20 time faster than Red Hats
download (they must have a speed limit to minimize downloads).  3) do =
the
checksum on the image.

Installed in under twenty minutes.  BUT my pci stuff wasn't recognized.
After finding out that my motherboard doesn't talk to Linux found out =
the
fix is "linux pci=3Dbios,biosirq" <ENTER> at the first prompt "boot:" =
upon
initial loading AND then to add "pci=3Dbios,biosirq" after =
"root=3DLABEL=3D/"
i.e., " ...   root=3DLABEL=3D/ pci=3Dbios,biosirq"  in the grub.conf =
file (found
in /boot/grub/ when you log on as administrator (username =3D root, =
password =3D
whatever you assigned for administrator)).

After that fix (which needed another reload), the system works great I =
mean
GREAT.  Everything I need (except for ham radio programs).  Works as =
good
(better than) Win-2000. Until you are experienced I would recommend =
playing
on a spare hard drive before trying to make a dual boot system.

Rich
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