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Comments wanted on Red Hat 4.0 system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile)
Fri Nov 22 16:15:41 1996
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 11:13:05 -0500 (EST)
From: "Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" <scoile@patriot.net>
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I'm trying to get a system set-up at a local university for Web page
and general file service via Red Hat Linux 4.0. I've put together the
following specs for a starter system. Can anyone offer any advice?
CASE
1 full tower case
1 300W power supply
For maximum internal expandability.
MOTHERBOARD
1 PCI motherboard supporting up to 200MHz Intel Pentium CPU
Intel Triton III chip set
Triton II minimum.
256k cache, expandable to 512k
Plug-N-Play capable flash BIOS
PNP capable in case Linux ever supports it. Should the BIOS
be capable of botting the machine from CD-ROM? Is Mr. BIOS
a good option for Linux boxes?
1 standard 101 keyboard controller and port
1 PS/2-sytle bus mouse controller and port
1 on-board floppy disk drive controller supporting 2 floppy drives.
on-board EIDE controller(s) supporting 4 devices
I prefer to have an IDE drive to boot from.
2 on-board fast serial port and controller
CPU
1 200MHz Intel Pentium CPU
100MHz minimum.
RAM
32MB RAM, expandable to at least 96MB (128MB preferable).
16MB minimum.
VIDEO
*** suggesetions needed *** I don't need anything fancy, since this
won't be a workstation.
COMMUNICATIONS
1 network card
Suggestions needed here. NE2000's are the standard at the
university.
1 internal 28.8k bps modem
Recommendations? Anybody to stay away from?
SCSI
1 SCSI host adapter
Suggestions needed here, too. How well does Linux support
SCSI 2? Is there a SCSI 3? What about SCSI wide? Anybody
to stay away from?
STORAGE
1 2GB EIDE hard disk drive
1 2GB SCSI hard disk drive
Don't want all my eggs in one basket, so two drives on two
controllers.
1 8x ATAPI CD-ROM drive
In the past, ATAPI drives have been cheaper than SCSI drives,
and I'm going to have spare EIDE ports.
1 1.44MB 3.5" floppy disk drive
1 SCSI tape drive capable of storing 4GB uncompressed.
Recommendations?
PERIPHERALS
1 standard 101 keyboard
1 2-button PS/2-style bus mouse
1 15" color SuperVGA monitor
Recommendations?
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Steve Coile P a t r i o t N e t Systems Engineering
scoile@patriot.net Patriot Computer Group (703) 277-7737
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