[Elecraft] Linux - Summary

Tue Feb 18 03:12:01 2003

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El Martes, 18 de Febrero de 2003 04:44, Rich Lentz escribi=F3:
If you want to try linux without having to installl anything.... give a try=
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KNOPPIX at http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/

It is a live-cd... and it has really updated software... it's cool!

> Thought that you would want to know the results.
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> Red Hat - 8
> Mandrake - 5
> SuSe -   1
> Smothwall - 1
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> 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.
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> 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, passw=
ord =3D
> whatever you assigned for administrator)).
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> After that fix (which needed another reload), the system works great I me=
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> GREAT.  Everything I need (except for ham radio programs).  Works as good
> (better than) Win-2000. Until you are experienced I would recommend playi=
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> on a spare hard drive before trying to make a dual boot system.
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> Rich
> KE0X=20
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Un saludo,
	Jaime Robles, EA4TV
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