Token Ring, hahahaha, i think ill stick with my auto detecting, auto sensing, dhcp assigning, spi firewall protecting, RJ45 accepting Linksys Router:)On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 08:04, Sam MacDonald wrote: > It's better to ask a question then ruin a perfectly good installation. > Hardware stuff is easy once you work with it a bit. I sort of look at > it this way " huh, it doesn't work, guess I have to unplug it" > > Generally hardware works or it doesn't, it's the software that drives > the hardware that you will have issues with. You can reduce the > freak-out factor by getting some old hardware and playing with it. Use > some ISA hardware that requires setting jumpers and you will have a firm > grasp of hardware and what it needs to function. > > Slap a Token ring card set to 4 mbt in a machine and turn it on > connected to a 16mbt Token ring network, then you've arrived in the "I > made a mistake" world of hardware ;-) > > Sam. > > PHPTOm wrote: > > >Thanks all for the feedback. > > > > > > > >>1.starting with: > >> I. an "old computer" with 2 HDs: > >> - the boot HD that has RH installed & your data > >> - a clean ext3 formatted 9G HD > >> II. a "newer computer" with RH installed on the boot HD > >> and plenty of space for your data > >> > >> > > > >That is what I was doing. Except I was hoping to just plop the second HD > >into the new RH installation. > > > >In the end, I did just that. I plugged it in and mounted it right away > >without a single problem. Hardware stuff freaks me out. > > > > > > > > > > > >>Please don't say Windoze. > >> > >> > >yes windoze. I thought about RH, but the computer would be useless to the > >person if it wasn't windoze. Maybe I should dual-boot it. > > > >TOm > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list