Re: EMC Kit

Dan Mauch wrote:

> From: "Dan Mauch" <dmauch@...>
>
> I think sending out a completely loaded hard drive is the better way because
> I have found that on the 4 hard drives that I have loaded the red hat and
> emc files on that all the user really had to do was to install the hard
> drive. So far the generic VGA monitor and display seems to work on the 4
> different pc that I have done.

Great, except that the EMC screen presentation is bigger than 600 pixels high.
You can barely see the center at 640 x 480, you can see most of it at
800 x 600, but it takes over the entire screen. You would ideally want to have
1024 x 768 or so screen resolution, and the generic driver WON'T work on many
boards in that mode.

> The last two only required the mouseconfig to be reset. Other than that it
> was really easy for the user to plug in the hard drive and turn on the PC. I
> think it takes about 5 minutes for the user to install it.
> The only problem I see is if the user wants a custom set up. But for a PC
> that is going to be working in a shop environement I don't see why a
> dedicated harddrive approach would not work anything but easier than trying
> to load it onto a cdrom and still having the same set up problems to deal
> with.
> The hardware setup would be dictated such as
> Pentium 90+
> 32 Mb of Ram
> 3.5 floppy
> mouse
> SVGA multisync monitor
> SVGA multisysnc video card
> keyboard
> 1 gig hard drive

Well, it would also be possible to make up a small script that would do the
partitioning of a blank hard drive, and then load disk images from CD ROM
to the hard drive with the backup/restore utilities.

Jon