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Originally posted by n e r d
[B]i want to get into linux, so i thought i woudl dual boot my system, When i first installed my 200GB western Digital drive, my comptuer's bios only seen it as 137GB, so thats how much the NTFS partition for Windows 2000 takes up. So, there is 63GB screaming to me to put linux on.
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it'd be worth a shot. try this:
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
and get one of the cd base images.
Duron 700mHz:
debian has kernel binaries with optimizations for k7 processors
200GB WD 7200RPM 8M Hard Drive:
i don't see why it wouldn't work
384MB PC133 RAM:
yup
Lite-ON DVD+/-RW drive:
chances are good.
KHypermedia 48x24x48 CDRW drive
chances are good.
note about cdr's. i think you have to set them up as scsi emulations
Mad Dog Geforce FX 5200 128MB video card in AGP 4X slot
if you get debian follow these instructions (
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debi...tallation.html) otherwise download the drivers off the nvidia website. PS. a good newbie text editor is nano.
Hival ( i think) 56K modem in the first PCI slot
sounds like a winmodem. You might be able to get it to work, check the how to on this site.
Gigifast Ethernet 10/100MB NIC in the second PCI slot
chances are good.
Sound Blaster Audigy LS (I think) in the fifth PCI slot.
emu10k1 driver. do you have digital output? if you do you will need to do special things (install emu-tools if your gonna use oss, or change mixer settings with alsa)
Can I install redhat 9 on this? is it fast enough? and will all the components work? i know the video card will because thats what the box for it says.
yah, you can install rh9 on it.
can i use the windows 2000 boot manager or do i need to use LILO?
uh, does win2k's boot manager support linux? use grub anyway it's better than lilo