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Re: 770 Machine



Lee Hetherington (ilh@sls.lcs.mit.edu) wrote:
> I'm running Red Hat 5.0, with a customized kernel (2.0.33) on a 770.
> However, we are running Win95 on the other partition and not NT.  The
> reason for the custom kernel was to turn on APM.

As a no-longer-newbie user (i.e. after some weeks) you want to configure
and install your custom kernel anyway. Hey, on a 770 this shouldn't take
longer than 10 minutes. 

> With Red Hat 5.0, you can use the boot floppy to boot your linux
> partition, even if you cannot install lilo.  I have no idea if NT and

You can do that with the Linux kernel in general. Just dd it to a floppy
and boot off it. No miracle, and no invention by RH. Not to blame their
considerable achievements, though. 

> lilo are compatible.

Look on sunsite for all HOWTOs containing "NT". There are
some, mainly /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader and
/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/unmaintained/mini/Linux+WinNT. Haven't tried it,
no NT user. *shudder* 

> As for X, we're running Xi Graphics' Accelerated X Laptop (LX), but that
> is far from free ($200).  At the time, XFree86 didn't yet support the
> 770, but I think that has changed.  

It has. Get XFree86 3.3.2.