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Re: Can I do this, NEWBIE Alert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Hogg)
Sat Nov 7 11:40:00 1998
From: "Jeff Hogg" <tastin@blkbox.com>
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Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 10:40:43 -0600
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From: James R. McKenzie <JRMCKENZIE@PDN.NET>
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Date: Saturday, November 07, 1998 7:45 AM
Subject: Can I do this, NEWBIE Alert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>Hello folx,
>
>I've been a lurker on this journal/list for about 6 months but I
>can't say I've found EXACTLY what I need yet. My dad is gonna get
>an 8.4 gig HDD for his Win95 box and give me his old 2.1 gigger.
>I have Win95 in mine and ALSO want RHL 5.2. I want to install RHL
>on the 2.1 but as a second HDD. A friend says I can install it as
>a 1st HDD and then switch the Win95 HDD back as the first but
>can't put Linux on a secondary (slave) drive. Does anyone have
>experience with this?
You should be able to install it on your system as it stands. No need to
swap drives around. Linux can handle being on the second drive without
trouble.
>BTW : Can Linux recognize the Canon BJC-250 Bubble Jet/Ink Jet
>printer
Yes, in fact it should be listed in the selection of printers you can set up
with during installation.
> Also I have Win95 on a 16-bit partition (OSR1, 4.00.950a)
>and Netscape COmmunicator 4.5. Can Communicator for Linux
>Read/Write the files/folders I create for e-mail?
Linux can handle reading files from a dos partion of FAT16 and FAT32 type.
Just mount the partion that holds your dos files under linux. type man
mount once you have linux installed to get the command syntax you'll want.
>Finally, where can I grab the CYRIX friendly kernel[s]?
>
I don't think you need to worry about the Cyrix chip, but I'm not well
versed here. Anyone else?
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