by Thanks to the discussions in this group and a lot of reading or docs
I have in four weeks gotten this far:
Installed RH5.1 (Have to boot from floppy)
Gotten access to the CDRom
Finally got the modem to work a couple of days ago. (Yes you have to
shut off pnp aware in bios and Win 95 still works...)
Can get access to floppy sometimes.
Got the 800x600 screen in X I had been trying to get for 3 weeks.
(the hsync was wrong...)
Next of many more things to do:
1. Get access to the data partition VFat on hda7 for both Windoze and
Linux. Access to ide/?atapi recognized as hdb by Linux and gives
"Error hdb: drive reports size of 0mbytes and 100mbytes"
There's lot's of discussion on this matter but I need info like
a. (if applicable) RPM <this file>
b. give this command on the command line or in etc/fstab.
2. I can dial into my isp but since I got the 800x600 xwindows
the alt-<x> commands in minicom won't respond for some reason.
I really don't know what to do next after I get the ppp going.
I have configured the tcp thing but do I need to just give the
command "ppp up"? if I can get out of minicom?
The various config files seem to be okay except
the one that has just local host 127.0.0.0 in it.
Netscape can't find the DNS but I know those numbers are okay.
3. HPprinter 722c. I'm using the 5xxc-6xxc that worked okay on my
Amiga just to see if I can print anything at all but there's a
log file that just gathers up "out of paper" lines ad infinatum,
my system slows down and I can't shutdown the system without
resetting the computer. Can't get a driver into the Linus setup
without access to the outside 'world' from Linux itself.
Appreciate any help. I'll keep reading the docs....