BEN RITCHEY wrote to KEN HRYNCHUK on 03-10-05 08:01:

 | KH> Well, that's interesting, Ben. Is DOSEmu an external app, and (if so)
 | KH> does it work with most Linux distros?

 BR> Depends on your definition of external  as it's included with
 BR> Mandrake, though I have the latest/new source to re-build same. Sorry,
 BR> but I only know Mandrake (all I want/need to, too).  [:^)

 BR> I can walk you through the basics of setting up DOSEmu if/once you
 BR> decide to give Linux a go ... install it 1st (I select everything except
 BR> servers during the install). Anything you choose that needs something
 BR> else will queue the system to grab them, too, automagically.

Thanks for your offer of help, Ben. If I do decide to 'take the plunge',
I may just take you up on it. Of course, I'll try 'DYI' first, though
(it's easier to remember lessons learned the 'hard way' ).

 BR> I just finished (re)building a custom kernel (optimized for my P3/450)
 BR> after configuring/migrating from Mandrake v7.1 to v9.2 and things just
 BR> fly by it runs so fast . I blink, it's gone ...
somehow the new
 BR> kernel figured out how to enable all the special features of the IDE
 BR> drives (I have 3 plus a CD-RW) and the transfer rate went from an
 BR> approx. average of 6MB/sec to about 20MB/sec. I had tweaked it from 3 to
 BR> 6 myself but couldn't get DMA working. Booted the new kernel and it did
 BR> it all by itself . Smokin...

Cool. :) I just finished a 'DMA tussle' in Win98SE, a few weeks back. Short
version - m/b detected C: as UDMA Mode 5, but can only use Mode 3 (known
bug in some earlier Award BIOSes) - solution: use HDD mfr utility to
slow HDD down to Mode 3 - could finally get the 'DMA' box to stay
'checked' in Device Manager, and went from 3.5MB/S to 8MB/S.

I just finished going through the Linux CDs that I inherited a while
back, and it looks like I have Mandrake 6, and Red Hat 6. Do either of
these sound like a good match for a P233MMX, 96MB RAM? And, besides
F-Prot, are you running any other native Linux scanners?

   Ken

 
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