Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Linux question...

Sean,
Do what I did for a real Safe technique, just so I could check it out. Find
an old Harddrive ! I had a spare Celeron566 (oc to 850) laying around with
win98 on a 6.4 gig drive. Instead of trashing that good drive with a fresh
win98 install on it, I took an old 2gig drive someone gave me a while back
and shoved it in as the main drive. I installed BDI just as has been
mentioned..... My grandma could have done it if she was alive. I did it with
the disk offered by Ray H. in this group.

EMC ?? well I looked at it. Thats about it so far. Gotta start somewhere !

Somehow all of the necessary drivers seemed to have worked because it boots
up. I SURE do not know what I am doing in it though..... Not sure why I would
want to leave the world of windows just yet. Linux Seems pretty clunky, but I
am going to spend more time in it. Hopefully There is some "interface" that
is more attractive. Maybe I just do not see the benefits just yet.

Anyhow, then I made the linux drive a slave and installed the original win98
drive as a master. I just go into bios on bootup and select which drive it
should boot from. Best of both worlds.

If you can not find a used small drive for this, heck, you can buy new 30gig
drives for around $85 without even searching long.


So, In closing,,, I have it installed for my review "Safely" !

If I can't figure it out, I do not have to do much other than throw the drive
in the trash. With the bios on "auto" it won't feel a thing.


Chris L




audiomaker2000 wrote:

> Ok, maybe a little OT here, but I'm asking because I'd like to play
> with EMC and would even dedicate a computer to do so, and I figure
> the CC(c)ED group would have insight pertaining to a computer that
> only needs to serve as a controller.
> My question is..what about all the drivers?
> Recently I downgraded from Win2k to Win 98 so I could try out Master5
> (prior to Master5XP), and it was a complete nightmare. Half of the
> computer didn't work (it shipped with ME). Video cards, CDR driver,
> monitor profiles..etc.
> So, I'm guessing since I don't know any better that this BDI formats
> your drive and installs Linux, but it couldn't possibly come with all
> the specific drivers that Microsoft has accumulated, and they can be
> quite hard to track down manually.
>
> So how does this work?
>
> Many Thanks
> Sean
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