Old computer from Slackware presentation, Part 3

[technomage]

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thats the one with the SCSI device ON the display adaptor, right?

I've found those don't work the way they are supposed to.
best to replace with a matrox mellenium display unit and find a seperate scsi 
adaptor (that card is too psycho to even allow windows to work on it).
I'm not sure I have any scsi adaptors laying around over here, but I have a 
spare matrox or 2.

let me know (I left my phone number a few e-mails back. let me know if you 
want it again and I'll send privately).

Mage

On Wednesday 28 May 2003 09:59 am, David Huerta wrote:
> Nah, I'm not using the display device, just hookup on the board with an
> adapter for scsi wide on the drive.  I don't plan on installing a GUI on
> this machine, which will simply be a file server, but I'd appreciate any
> pointers on getting a cd-rom to work on this thing.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
> technomage
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 2:06 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Old computer from Slackware presentation, Part 3
>
> David,
> I was the one that brought that machine in. are you using the scsi
> attachment
> on the display device?
> if so, that won't work in linux (I think its windows centric).. also,
> the
> display device for that machine doesn't like GUI for some reason (never
> did
> figure out why). I have an extra display laying here (matrox mellenium)
> if
> you want it).
>
> give me a call at 623-849-9515 when you get a chance.
>
> Mage
>
> On Friday 23 May 2003 01:25 pm, David Huerta wrote:
> > Not sure if anyone remembers the old Compaq my friend won from an East
> > Side meeting last month, but we've basically exhausted most
>
> traditional
>
> > means of installing Linux on it, and have come up with an alternative:
> >
> > The computer has two scsi drives and now a scsi cd-rom, which
>
> Slackware
>
> > still can't detect.  However, it can detect an IDE hard drive on the
>
> IDE
>
> > port it has, maybe.  I plan on installing the OS on another computer
>
> on
>
> > an IDE hard drive and then sticking it back into my friend's comp,
>
> then
>
> > dding the whole OS into its larger SCSI hard disk.
> >
> > or
> >
> > I can find a larger IDE hard drive, stick it in my computer, dd the
>
> iso
>
> > image onto the hard drive, stick it back into my friend's comp, boot
> > with a floppy, and select that IDE hard drive as the source of the
> > packages.
> >
> > note that I have little experience with SCSI and will prolly ask more
> > questions when I decide to set up a RAID array.
> >
> > - David Huerta
> >
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