Thanks for the complement but I'm no "Linux adept", I'm sure many could attest to that ;-) Clean drive no other OS on it. I put the CD in the drive and booted in to the installation. I stepped through the questions, told it what I wanted to install and only made one mistake, booting to an X Windows login. I didn't want to do that but was able to fix it with some help from LUG'rs. It was my own fault for clicking the mouse to fast. This is my advice to people who want to experiment with any OS's. Get a PC that has easy hardware configuration. Learn to install hard disk drives, then get 4 hard disk drives. Put what ever OS you "want" to have on each drive independently and label it as such with the following information. OS, Version, Date & Time, and a Yes or No to the question "Is data stored on the drive" if "Yes" it needs to be backed up before it's swapped from the system. This may sound expensive, it really isn't when you think of the lost data and time it takes to recover from one little mistake (see above). I'm a huge fan of old, high end servers, for home use. I have a Compaq Proliant 2500 with 5 - 4 gig disks in it in a Raid 5 configuration running W2K/sp4. This machine holds data for every day use, archive and printing. Using Samba from Linux to access drives on this machine took a little education but I now have shell scripts to do the mounts for me. This way I can have the PC's as a play ground and not loose data. I have no real data on any PC for more then the time it takes to copy it to my server. Some day I'll have a NIX box controlling the heating and cooling of my house and one for the future cabin. Sam. Lawrence Clemens wrote: > Sam > I know you Linux adepts do lots of mods on your systems, but do you recall > if you installed Red Hat 8 on a clean drive and came up with a system that > had a functional GUI? That is no further tricks, hacks or other linux > legerdemain? If so, his is close to what I am aiming for. Larry > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Samuel MacDonald" <smac at visi.com <mailto:smac at visi.com>> > To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org > <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org>> > Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 9:57 AM > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Minnesota Computers For Schools > > > > I have a Micron Transport XKE Mobil Pentium (one) 266mhx with 64mb RAM. > > I have Red Hat 8 and open office on it. It's not speedy but it is > > functional, I'm working on getting some more RAM (from MPC) for it. I > > believe if I can find 2 - 64mb sticks of RAM I'll have a fast machine > > (for total RAM of 160mb RAM). > > > > I did put another disk in the XKE and installed FreeBSD. I've found > > FreeBSD to be faster in X with KDE, but I need to spend time configuring > > it X to get it to run at higher resolution and more colors. FreeBSD is > > not as easy as Linux to configure. > > > > I was at MPC yesterday looking for parts for a Toshiba Satellite Pro > > 405c (P75 & 8mb RAM) They had a 32mb stick and a the external floppy > > drive for it ($30 total) I had RH 4.2 on it for a while but have > > volunteered it for use By a Scouter for His term as Wood Badge > > Director. It has W95 and Office 97 on it now, when I get it back in > > September it will get RH 6.2 installed on it :) > > > > I also found an RCA cable to connect my XKE to connect to a VCR-TV. I > > hope to be able to do presentations for Scouting using the XKE with > Linux. > > > > MPC ROCKS! > > > > Sam. > > > > Steven Cayford wrote: > > > > >On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Lawrence Clemens wrote: > > > > > > > > >>[...] > > >>I challenge anyone to show me a Linux system with a functional GUI > that > will run on > > >>even a 266MHz P2 with 64 MB RAM. (I've tried mainstream stuff like > SuSE > > >>[...] > > >>BTW if I have gotten it all wrong and you have systems that are > dropins > > >>to older computers and easily adapt peripherals, I would love to hear > > >>from you and get educated. That's what TLUG is for. Thanks for the > forum. > > >> > > >> > > > > > >Well, I'm writing from a P120 laptop with 48MB RAM running Debian and > > >using the fluxbox window manager. 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