Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (264978)	6/18/2002 2:36:54 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Mike, some interesting stuff. I upgraded my computer called acute. It's a dual p3 700 mHz system. Only 1/2 Gig of memory. A couple of 1998 matrox cards with 8 megs. Originally these were 700 dollar cards and they still have very good performance. It has an early 3com 100 baset ethernet and some noname sound card. It has a 24x noname cdrom. It also has a 20 gig IBM deskstar drive and had a 10 gig utrawide scsi on a symbios controller. The system ran redhat 5.2, 7.2 and mandrake 6.1 linux. I attempted to install Windows XP but XP does not have driver for almost all the items in the system. The motherboard is a supermicro about 2 years old and supports only ata 33. So my upgrade consisted of adding an ATA 133 controller and two 120 gig Western Digital drives. I also added a sony cd-r-rw, 32x-10x-40x drive. I also removed the scsi as I needed the PCI slot and the 240 GIG of ata133 disk is as fast of faster than the 10 gig of ultrawide scsi. I downloaded redhat 7.3 install cd images on my computer angle, that's my portable display computer. I then installed redhat 7.3 on computer acute over my 100baset local ethernet. The install recognised every piece of hardware and correctly installed a symetric multiprocessing kernal. To configure my cd burner, all I had to do was type xcd at a command prompt. This is currently a 100% redhat open source system. I'll be adding my own opensource packages and a few commercial packages. Additionally the redhat install knew how to use the ata 133 disk on my new controller as the boot partition. That was very cool... But the completeness of the install is very impressive. tom watson tosiwmee