Very Computer

If you can help please document every component in detail.  This system
requires the following options: sound card, CD ROM and 56k modem.

Additionally I must incorporate a touch screen which I think few of you have
experience with.

Thanks all

James

Thank you
JIM

The second (only a few short months later) was RH5.1 on a
P2/350 with 128MB and IDE HD, CDROM and tape and a Cardinal
56k modem. I did have trouble with the tape drive and kernel
2.0.34 but going to kernel 2.2.1 solved that.  Sound only
required a minor tweak: the sndconfig program wouldn't let
me choose the proper IRQ for the sound board, so I just
manually edited /etc/conf.modules to put it right.

If you're looking to set up multiple identical machines you
might want to burn your own installation CD once you get it
working on one machine.

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Now, granted - the SBLive and DVD Card isn't used - and I'm a$$ed out of the
kick *features of the ATI card (Thanks ATI) - but.... I installed and
was running Linux Mandrake (or) RH5.2  in 1 hour (with smoke breaks).

Intel Pentium 200 Mhz
64 MB Ram
11.5 GB Maxtor hard drive
Trident PCI SVGA video card with 1mb video memory
16x Lite-On CD-Rom
No Name Pentium motherboard picked up at a computer show
IBM 15" SVGA monitor
Mitsumi 1.44 floppy
Netcom 33.3 kbps PCI modem

Networking:

No name 5 port network in a box
No name NE2000 compatible NIC

total system cost: $700. The most expensive item was the Maxtor hard
drive and I caught it on sale last summer for under $250. The monitor
was from a close out vendor. Granted it could probably be put together
nowadays for a little less. This system was built over the course of a
year. As I had some spare cash I invested in some parts and put it
together. The system runs RedHat5.2 Linux and is networked with a Win95
box for a soho (small office/home office). I caught RedHat5.2 on sale at
Border's Bookstore over the Thanksgiving holidays for $29.00 and decided
to take the plunge. I had WinNT 4.0 with service pack 3 installed
previously. Since I have installed Linux I have not looked back. With
help from the various mailing lists and investment in a couple of books
my system has been up in its current configuration since Christmas.

I've had to play with the configurations. Read plenty of the
documentation and talk to as many folks running Linux as you can. I
ended up installing Linux about four times to determine the best
configuration and options. You can probably get it done in an hour or
two. Make sure that you know all that you can about your hardware, the
interrupts it uses, your video card and your sound card. I currently
don't have sound installed but that may be next. Check out the HOWTo's
online and the hardware compatibility listings. Linux seems to lag
behind the majority operating systems release of drivers by about 12 to
18 months. So no USB support as far as I know about.

It can be done and it is well worth it. I wish you much success in your
endeavors.

Rob Thompson

Dual Pentium II 233MHz
Tyan Tiger 100 (No onboard SCSI)
128 MB RAM
Adaptec AAA-133 (Running as 3 standard aic-78xx, hardware RAID isn't working
yet)
3 IBM SCSI/UW 4.3 GB HDD
2 Seagate Hawk 4.2 GB HDD
NumberNine Revolution 3D AGP
3c905b
OPTi931 Sound
USR 56K Voice/Data/Fax ISA modem

RH 5.0/5.1 install with no problem.  OSSFree doesn't support this sound card, so
I'm ordering the commercial driver (eval worked fine).  The USR is PnP, use
setserial(rc.serial) to set the correct IRQ.

Of course, following install, I recompile a custom kernel to support SMP and
disable the used portions.

Running 2.2.1 now, It flies.

Life doesn't get much better than this!

Y2K is solved, now what do we do about Why2K?

Mike