Subject: Re: adding a hard drive
From: Tim Jordan (timothy_jordan@labor.state.ak.us)
Date: Wed Nov 19 2003 - 09:17:47 AKST
Coming from a Windows back ground I have never had to dig as deep into
an OS as I have with Gentoo Linux. All for my own benefit of course!
I'm becoming a better Linux admin and more importantly a better network
adminsitrator overall! The icing on the cake is I have never -EVER-
experienced a nicer workstation then the Gentoo1.4 build on a Dell
GX240. I can use VM's, play music, run email, compile packages, and
system management is becoming easier and easier with Emerge.
I would proceed with caution when it comes to Gentoo on a multi-boot
box. I'm a lot like you being new to linux. Gentoo has presented
consistent challenges. I have not built a multi-OS box with Gentoo, but
I have with Mandrake and it worked great....for a few months then
windows stopped booting...
Gentoo is my main workstation. I have installed it three times in the
past few months on Dell GX240 & 260 models. These boxes each run 1GB of
RAM and Intel P4 (1.7 & 2.2Ghz) processors. To build a complete
workstation with KDE, OpenOffice, Mozilla, Evolution, Mplayer, Browser
plugins, and a few extra packages it took about 1 1/2 days with a T-1
connection. I'm going to order the CD's for $15 off the web site from
now on.
I've had to resolve video and sound configuration problems on the
GX240(using the genkernel script). The sound was the real challenge as
I have to unmute my Headphone channel in amixer to get the sound working
on the GX240.....wierd!
Perhaps the best part of Gentoo is the documentation and forms...
Tim
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 06:17, Jim Dory wrote:
> Here's a basic question or two I hope someone can help with.
>
> I have a dual boot system right now with Win98SE and Suse 8.2 on one
> harddrive. I had only given the windows partition about 1 gig for the
> operating system then I was going to add this other hard drive, a
> Western Digital 80 gigger for more space for data, maybe split between
> the Suse and windows. But since it is IDE and my board is SATA, it
> didn't work until now when I finally got an adapter.
>
> Now my thoughts have changed a bit. I would still like to give maybe 20
> gigs to Windows so I can edit sound files (the main reason I've stayed
> with win98 - better at latency), but now I thought maybe I would try
> another distribution. I've had nothing but trouble trying to get sound
> programs working on Suse - I've read about a breakage with gtk and glib
> or somesuch - having trouble getting ardour and others to compile.
> Anyway, I thought maybe I would leave suse as my regular desktop stuff
> and load another distribution to experiment with sound on, before I
> break my main workstation. So I grabbed some Gentoo iso's, though maybe
> something like debian or deMudi or whatever it is called would be
> better, I don't know. I'm a noob. But I've heard about Alan Cox's?
> latency patches for later kernels and would like to try that.
>
> So the question is: this IDE harddrive is mounted in a tray I can turn
> off and on, and I'm struggling with a good way to proceed. Should I
> attempt to try to install Gentoo (or whatever dist) so I triple boot?
> Win/Suse/Gentoo? Suse is using Grub, which I know little about. Or
> should I just format the WD drive for Gentoo to experiment on and
> disconnect the other sata drive when I want to use it? Seems a bit
> clunky to do that but within my abilities. Whereas getting Gentoo
> installed alongside Suse may be a recipe for disaster with my lack of
> knowledge.
>
> Any thoughts appreciated. thanks, Jim
>
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