BEN RITCHEY wrote to KEN HRYNCHUK on 03-15-05 10:48:

 | KH> back, and it looks like I have Mandrake 6, and Red Hat 6. Do either of
 | KH> these sound like a good match for a P233MMX, 96MB RAM? And, besides
 | KH> F-Prot, are you running any other native Linux scanners?

 BR> Best match I had for my old machine (P233MMX as well) was Mandrake 7.1,
 BR> but I imagine Mdk 6 is close enough, maybe faster (less bloat) as long
 BR> as it satifies your minimum requirements. You'll know when you install
 BR> ... if it likes your hardware it'll go smooth as silk (mine did).

Faster and less bloat sounds good to me, Ben.  So, the 'proof is in
the pudding', then.

 BR> A friend recently donated the guts from his old system after an upgrade
 BR> to 64-bit, etc, and migrating to Mandrake 9.2 with this hardware
 BR> (PIII-450, ATI AGP, etc) has been an uphill battle. I had trouble with
 BR> audio as SBLive just couldn't get along with DOS so I kept my old
 BR> generic ISA card, but Linux itself (7.1 at the time) just dropped the
 BR> old hardware and recognized the new stuff automagically. Coolest thing
 BR> I've ever seen during an upgrade. [:^) Except for ignoring SBLive audio
 BR> DOS didn't blink either, but Windows  ...
Win98SE I had to
 BR> redo from scratch as it just lost it's marbles quite literally. 

I've done some wrestling with a couple of Creative Labs PCI cards to get
them to work in DOS, too. The current AudioPCI card in the 233MMX
requires the loading of a monster called SBINIT for DOS operation, and
(among other things) if I try to run F-Prot when it's loaded, the
machine'll just reboot! On the flip side, a friend recently gave me an
old, ISA AWE32 card, and its DOS support is superb. I've had mixed
results in Windows; sometimes it gets it right, sometimes it doesn't...
 I've had pretty good luck with removing hardware manually from the
registry, then reinstalling (with and in-between boot with said hardware
totally removed from the machine).

 BR> Oh, F-Prot, no, just the one. I have a really old version of McAfee
 BR> VScan for Unix that used to work, but I doubt it still does. Hasn't been
 BR> supported as far as I can tell. Nothing free anyway.

I'm surprised (and disappointed) to hear that. I just took it for
granted that McAfee would be supporting Linux. Not enough $$ in
it, I guess. Thanks for the heads-up.

BTW, Ben, do you still have a 'FREQ via email' address? I tried to grab a
file, a few days ago, and got a bounce, instead. If so, I'm kenster at
autobahn dot mb dot ca.

   Ken

 
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