Linus and IBM machines

[J.M. Patek]

Doc Robinson wrote:
> 
> We are investigating various machines to purchase that will do
> double duty as windows95 and Linux boxes...
> Linux of GRASS4.1 and other uses
> 
> someone cautioned us
> about the machines such as IBM Aptiva and others that the hardware
> may not be compatible with Linux ...
> 
> does anyone have experience with IBM boxes/Linux/Grass   ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Regards
> Vince
> 
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I have several machines that dual boot.  However, I am using Windows NT 3.51 an
d 
Linux and haven't tried dual booting with Win95.  I currently have 2 Pentium 90
's 
(Austin), 2 Pentium 133's (a Tyan motherboard and an Intel), and am currently 
building 2 Dual P6 200's.  There is a variety of vidio cards, hard drives, card
s, 
tape drives, etc. among them.  All work fine.  I had trouble with the video car
d 
and X on one of them (Diamond card), but installing X-Inside's Accelerated driv
er  
cured that.  The other problem you may run into is with SCSI controllers, Linux
 
likes some better than others (Adaptec 2940 PCI controller can be a pain), so I
 
now use NCR cards (810 or 825).  If I can be of any assistance, feel free to 
phone or email me.

Jim Patek
Senior Engineer
LCRA
512 473-3200 office
512 445-2457 home
jpatek at smokey.prismnet.com