FYI, it is possible to get broadband connections with RJ-45 presentation, rather than USB
Yup, they've asked for RJ45 instead.
Furthermore, check with the broadband provider if you can host the specific services you need on their network. I would guess they block port 80 (for web servers) at a minimum.
Turns out they're ditching that idea anyhoo, it's just going to be a Debian based *internal* fileserver, and a router for the broadband conn. As a side note, I have in my grubby little hands, an 18GB SCSI Hard drive and an Adaptec AHA-2940U2W SCSI card, only the connector on the HD doesn't seem to fit any of the cables we have. It's about 2 1/4 inches wide (5.5cm), and very thin. It's wider than a normal High Density Male 68 pin. Does anyone recognise this kind of connection? We have no documentation (hell, we don't even know where it came from) and it's not the normal kind of connector I'm used to!
:-/ Ricardo
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Hi Ricardo, If the connector on your SCSI drive is a very long thin one that looks like a flat printer cable connector, it is probably an SCA connector. Scan sell SCA to 50/68pin SCSI adapters for approx. £15 plus VAT I am using two Seagate ST19171W drives with SCA connectors, and software RAID 0. They were originally in a Tektronix Profile PDR200 video server, and are designed to be hot-swappable. Hope that helps Chris Chris *************************************************************************** E Mail Chris@glovercc.clara.co.uk WWW http://www.glovercc.clara.co.uk ICQ 18054759 Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject. -Anon
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FYI, it is possible to get broadband connections with RJ-45 presentation, rather than USB
Yup, they've asked for RJ45 instead.
Furthermore, check with the broadband provider if you can host the specific services you need on their network. I would guess they block port 80 (for web servers) at a minimum.
Turns out they're ditching that idea anyhoo, it's just going to be a Debian based *internal* fileserver, and a router for the broadband conn.
As a side note, I have in my grubby little hands, an 18GB SCSI Hard drive and an Adaptec AHA-2940U2W SCSI card, only the connector on the HD doesn't seem to fit any of the cables we have. It's about 2 1/4 inches wide (5.5cm), and very thin. It's wider than a normal High Density Male 68 pin. Does anyone recognise this kind of connection? We have no documentation (hell, we don't even know where it came from) and it's not the normal kind of connector I'm used to!
:-/ Ricardo
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Does anyone have experience in dual booting between Windows XP and Linux? I understand it is not possible to resize a NTFS partition (so I'll have to use partition magic to do it), but what about configuring Lilo? Ashley
Eithe go down the route specified in the Linuc NT boot loader how to or do as I do and bung lilo in the mbr of the XP/2k/XP boot drive. Works for me but you have to install XP first or re-install lilo after. Cheers, BJ
-----Original Message----- From: main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Ashley @ Turton Sent: 16 November 2001 09:50 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [Alug] Windows XP and Linux - dual boot
Does anyone have experience in dual booting between Windows XP and Linux? I understand it is not possible to resize a NTFS partition (so I'll have to use partition magic to do it), but what about configuring Lilo?
Ashley
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Hello, I did this a few weeks ago. I set the active partition to this, rebooted and formatted the partition. rebooted from XP cd, installed to said partition and it installed its booty thing there. When all was working, I rebooted from my debian install disk mkdir /mnt mount /dev/hdaXX /mnt [my real linux partition] chroot /mnt vim /etc/lilo.conf added: other=/dev/hdaXXX [XP partition] label=XP saved, reran lilo, made my linux partition active (so lilo needs to install there, something like "boot=/dev/hdaXX"), rebooted. Linux and WinXP available from LiLo. On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 09:50, Ashley @ Turton wrote:
Does anyone have experience in dual booting between Windows XP and Linux? I understand it is not possible to resize a NTFS partition (so I'll have to use partition magic to do it), but what about configuring Lilo?
Ashley
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Thanks for the information. From the messages I am seeing so far, in order to do this I need XP on CD. The new machine will come with XP preinstalled. As I need to repartition, etc, will I need to buy an XP install CD as well? Ashley
Ah, ok. No. Just repartition the disk (the only thing I know that works well on NTFS is partition magic). Then reboot and install linux from boot CD, with my previous directions. Its works with debian, I cant say how to do it with another distribution.. Make sure the linux partition is active, and thats where lilo is installed. once its all installed, edit the lilo.conf and run lilo, then XP will be as an option upon reboot. Hope thats not to confusing! On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 12:09, Ashley @ Turton wrote:
Thanks for the information. From the messages I am seeing so far, in order to do this I need XP on CD. The new machine will come with XP preinstalled. As I need to repartition, etc, will I need to buy an XP install CD as well?
Ashley
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