-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-
 
 WC> Unfortunately the link on your web site to Steven's site in
 WC> New Zealand leads to a setup that excludes my old
 WC> proprietary Creative Matsushita CD-ROM commonly tagged as a
 WC> CR-563 in favor of ATAPI CD-ROM's.

 CA> Are those the ones that use the sound card as the controller?

 Yup, Mitsushita CR-563 which is identical to the Panasonic
 563.
 
 CA>> It is quite fast using LINKS.

 CA> The v8.1 is attractive being able to use current software with
 CA> it would be helpful/useful.

 I'm trashing it tomorrow. Going to install from
 the old release CD and using some of the automated
 setup tools there setup my hardware all of which is supported
 in that release, save the relavent video config, ect. files
 for reference and than reinstall 8.1

 WC>> Linux security issues. Right now 85 percent of my e-mail
 WC>> is spam, 8 percent malicious code and 7 percent something
 WC>> I'm looking for :-(

 CA>> You must have entered a real email address when installing
 CA>> your browser(s)? Change those to fake email addresses and
 CA>> the spam will lessen a bit.

 WC>> I've other stuff I've got to do but imagine I'll have a
 WC>> version of Linux on this machine in less than a month that
 WC>> suits all my current needs.

 CA> Steven has mainly 100 meg and 80 meg drives and is looking for
 CA> his personal 'comfort zone' which explains, in part, why his
 CA> installs are geared to lesser hardware and size. His
 
Works for me :-) 

 CA> description of his installs on his personal machines sound as
 CA> though his Linux can dupe most of what my W31 install here can
 CA> do but faster and a bit more stable.

 WC> Such as? Sounds like the next howto to save to file.

 CA> For me it would be GIMP and Konqueror to name two. Better
 CA> access to PERL (as a learning tool here) and more up to date
 CA> compilers (also learning tools here).

I'm familiar with the Slackware 1.1.59 C compiler.
 
 WC> Yup, I even went to their site, don't seem to support
 WC> Slackware though just Mandrake, Debian and Redhat IIRC,
 WC> likely just a matter of a bit of file editing however.

 CA> Steven Darnold would be the person to ask.

 I'll be hacking Linux on my own for a time as a learning
 experience but have already discovered plugging error
 messages as keywords and such into a search engine
 finds solutions already solved by someone else.

 WC> I'm dogging your heels. Remember I'm mobility impaired and
 WC> essentially live next to this machine!

 CA> It occurred to me over the years that the computer is a good
 CA> thing for those who are not as mobile as they would chose to
 CA> be. Better than watching TV all day long. :-)

Man don't you know it.

 WC> Steven in New Zealand really got me going with his stripped
 WC> down 8.1. Right now I'm debating deleting the partitians
 WC> and starting over at a more reasonable 150 meg for Linux
 WC> but that's going to really cause some pruning in my DOS
 WC> partitian. Hate to have to prune my brunette JPG file ;-)

 CA> BasicLinux might have the edge for you in that case. BasicLinux
 CA> can be installed to FAT partions if I remember correctly?

I've installed it onto my hard drive so it's no longer a ramdrive, 
it sits on /dev/hda2, 8.1 sits on hda4 and hda3 is a swap
they share.

 WC> Hey, how do you feel about 1 meg. .wav file attaches as
 WC> I've got a truely hysterical somewhat blue tune here.

 CA> A 100k MP3 would be more practical?

 I had a DOS MP3 player with utilities but the dang thing 
 paused a second for every second it played on this 486 , perhaps
 if I'd increased the buffers on the SoundBlaster?
 It really is an incredibly funny tune, perhaps I'll 
 look for that MP3 player on the net again and try to 
 convert it for you.

 WC> I already sent Steven an e-mail thanking him for his
 WC> efforts.

 CA> Steven seems to be one of the 'good guys' and I'm certain he
 CA> appreciates knowing that others find his efforts useful.

Slickest install I've ever seen. 8.1 was a snap.
Perhaps if we're to continue we should move to the 
Linux echo?
 
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