Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-20 Thread Julie
From: Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:38:20PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, > Julie thought: > > Not to be the mistress of understatement, but I found a big > > difference between double-digit nets (16Mb token ring) and > > triple digit nets (220Mb glass). > >

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-20 Thread Conor Daly
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:38:20PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Julie thought: > From: Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 08:49:20PM +0100, Conor Daly wrote: > > > Interesting something comes to mind there... What will it cost me to > put > > > /home on an NF

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-20 Thread Julie
From: Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 08:49:20PM +0100, Conor Daly wrote: > > Interesting something comes to mind there... What will it cost me to put > > /home on an NFS volume over a 4-box 10Mbit network? It's gotta be slower > > than local disk but you get to carry

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-19 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 08:49:20PM +0100, Conor Daly wrote: > Interesting something comes to mind there... What will it cost me to put > /home on an NFS volume over a 4-box 10Mbit network? It's gotta be slower > than local disk but you get to carry your settings across boxes. Not that > anyone

RE: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-19 Thread Brian Sweeney
Well, I think this used to be the case. I remember having problems with RAID on older (6.0 maybe?) RHL installs because of this problem. Bear in mind, your fstab file USED to read something like /var/dev/hda5 So if hda or hdb switch around, that fstab won't work. However,

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-19 Thread James Sutherland
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Conor Daly wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:04:09AM +1000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, > Mary Gardiner thought: > > On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 09:00:13AM -0400, coldfire wrote: > > > > I tend to go for spreading both OSs out over both drives. It's supposed > > > > to be a

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-19 Thread Conor Daly
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:04:09AM +1000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Mary Gardiner thought: > On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 09:00:13AM -0400, coldfire wrote: > > > I tend to go for spreading both OSs out over both drives. It's supposed > > > to be a performance thing where /usr is on one disk whi

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-19 Thread Kai MacTane
At 5/19/01 06:00 AM , coldfire wrote: > > I tend to go for spreading both OSs out over both drives. It's supposed > > to be a performance thing where /usr is on one disk while /home is on > > another and similarly for Windows. I don't know how much gain I get on a > > home box (probably not much

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-19 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 09:00:13AM -0400, coldfire wrote: > > I tend to go for spreading both OSs out over both drives. It's supposed > > to be a performance thing where /usr is on one disk while /home is on > > another and similarly for Windows. I don't know how much gain I get on a > > home bo

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-19 Thread coldfire
> I tend to go for spreading both OSs out over both drives. It's supposed > to be a performance thing where /usr is on one disk while /home is on > another and similarly for Windows. I don't know how much gain I get on a > home box (probably not much) but I did it anyhow... never knew it was a

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-19 Thread Conor Daly
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 09:44:03PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Julie thought: > From: Wendy Galovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi Keith, > > If you have only one IDE connection to use, but want to have the > > two OSes installed on separate drives, you could try this: get one > > swappab

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-19 Thread Conor Daly
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 04:51:13PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] thought: > > I have been cautioned to back up all of my data just in case, but why > could I not unplug the IDE cable to the Win98 HD and do the install on > the Linux HD? Would I be opening a can of wor

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-18 Thread Caitlyn Martin
Hi, Keith, > Working on the basis that there really aren't any stupid questions, here > I go again... I don't agree that there are no stupid questions. Still... I don't see you asking any :) > > From the earlier queries on installing my copy of Caldera Open Linux > eDesktop 2.4, putting the wh

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-18 Thread Julie
From: Wendy Galovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi Keith, > If you have only one IDE connection to use, but want to have the > two OSes installed on separate drives, you could try this: get one > swappable drive rack and two trays to mount the hard drives in. Then you > can swap them as often as you ne

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-18 Thread coldfire
> LILO needs to write to the MBR of the first drive. Bad thing to confuse it > by swapping one drive in and out, IMO at least (I don't have first hand > experience with it, just making a guess). LILO doesn't have to be installed to the MBR .. as a matter of fact, this is the less recommended ins

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-18 Thread Wendy Galovich
On Fri, 18 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 16:51:13 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question > > Hi again, Keith here in the Depths of the Great Bergen Swamp > > Working on the

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-18 Thread Kath
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 4:51 PM Subject: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question > Hi again, Keith here in the Depths of the Great Bergen Swamp > > Working on the basis that there really aren't any stupid questions, here > I go again... > > >From the earlier qu

[techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-18 Thread wny-tc
Hi again, Keith here in the Depths of the Great Bergen Swamp Working on the basis that there really aren't any stupid questions, here I go again... >From the earlier queries on installing my copy of Caldera Open Linux eDesktop 2.4, putting the whole package on a separate drive seems the way to g