BDI

Hi Ray, BDI fans,

Well, I finally got an AMD K6-2/400 machine up and checked out with
Windoz98 (I had sometime previously built a machine for my wife with the
6Gb drive).

The drive is partitioned as C,D,E &F, each partition is 2Gb, except the
last, which got 32MB. Seemed like a good idea at the time; I think the
other intended target machine didn't like anything bigger then 2Gb.

As Windoz98 is in the 'C' partition, I thought I'd try to bring BDI up
on the 'E' drive partition. I selected custom (?) and gave 'E' the root
'/'.

The first problem (?) I had was in the video board/monitor choices. I
had put in an old Trident 9000 512 kb controller, and a Toshiba 17"
monitor I had. Monitor not on the list, but I determined H & V sync
rates, and put in the numbers (OK?) I tried the "test", but other then
a few flashes and clicks of the monitor, I didn't see any "graphics
screen" (Am I supposed to see something?), and the 512K selection was
deleted upon the return to the text setup screens. I continued.

The setups suggests about 15-20 min of time to copy all the "packages",
that starts but never finishes (I tried different builds, I think the
developer finished, but hung on the post stuff).

After waiting a good while, I rebooted, and with Windoz, I saw (from the
developer load try) a 1Gb or so image file, and a 32K file.

Some questions:

1) Did BDI (RedHat) not like the AMD K6?

2) Did I blow it on the 'E' partition? (it would be nice to do dual
boot), but I couldn't see a way to switch the boot to the "extended"
partition. (Something about ASKING for instructions on doing a
dual-boot in the printed note that came with the CD).

3) SHOULD I have seen something on the video test? (800x600 VGA)

4) I can and will blow away the Windoz98, if necessary (easier), but as
the drive is 6Gb, I thought I'd keep it.

5) IDE drive and CD, but couldn't boot from BDI CD (machine seems to
boot from Windoz98 2nd Ed CD). Not a problem, I made a boot floppy per
instructions on CD.

Any Ideas?

Alan KM6VV