Hi, Barbara: OK, I do understand, and I will be glad to help--as will others on the list. I suggest you have this person contact me directly and/or join the blinux list. Meanwhile, they should download more recent iso images. I would suggest those on the Speakup site (even though you won't be needing Speakup) only because they are frequently updated with the latest drivers. But, you could also download from a Red Hat mirror and use the built in up2date command after installation. Some of what I will counsel has to do with partitioning decisions. I would highly recommend a kind of partitioning scheme that facilitates replacing the OS installation of Linux without losing any of your personal data. This can be done, but one needs to know how to make choices that aren't eninical to this goal. You will want to upgrade sometime this winter, because the next Red Hat release will include significant accessibility enhancements that you will want to have. Making smart choices today will make that upgrade this winter relatively painless. Making poorer choices today would mean an upgrade of the kind I'm speaking of quite troublesome. Clearly, I'd expect you to prefer the former. On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Barbara J Wagreich wrote: > Let me explain. > > 1) I am deaf and blind and would be using brltty. > > 2) I ordered the linux directly from Ree Hat around april 20 and they > said it was the latest. I didn't know there were subsequent releases. > Sigh. > > 3) I don't know of a professional shop in the metropolitan boston area. A > friend of a friend whom I trust is custom building the PC for me. He did > say he has no experience with linux but would try. sothis is a learning > experience for him. I'm sure we can resolve the problems. If anyone > knows anyone in the metropolitan Boston area who might be able to help, > please let me know. > > Barb > > > On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > If I were you, I'd seriously consider giving my business to some else. > > > > 1.) Who chose the hardware that you're buying? Did this shop choose > > it? If so, and they new you wanted Linux, then they should choose another > > mother board. This is simply irresponsible. It's an attempt to get a few > > more dollars from you for no good reason. Devices which are known to work > > with Linux are well documented on the net. A professional shop should know > > how to pick appropriate hardware. If they don't know how, they're not > > worth the money you're spending with them. Give it to a competitor that > > does know how. > > > > 2.) If they're installing RH 7.2 they are doing you another > > disservice. Red Hat is currently at 7.3 and has been since mid April. If > > they don't know that, and don't know how to deal with it, give your > > business to someone who does. Don't pay them to do what they don't know > > how to do. > > > > 3.) I suspect you want Speakup and/or other accessibility support in > > your system. Is this shop aware of how to do this? At least one competitor > > of their's is, and there may be others. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Barbara J Wagreich wrote: > > > > > HI: > > > > > > i'm having a new PC custom built for me. It already has DOS, Window s98, > > > and Windows 2000 installed on it. It is a 2GHZ Pentium 4 machine using an > > > ABIT motherboard. I just received this message from the person who is > > > building it for me: > > > > > > I've run into a problem with Linux. Linux does not appear to support the > > > IDE RAID controller, at least for booting. The IDE RAID controller does > > > not > > > support CD-ROMs or ZIP drives. The only way around this seems to be > > > moving > > > the hard drive to the main IDE controller in parallel with one of the > > > other > > > drives, but this is undesirable for performance reasons. An alternative > > > would be to install a second hard drive just for Linux (it would still > > > result in reduced performance for that drive). > > > > > > Any comments on this? Is it possible to install Red Hat Linux 7.2 sothat > > > the mail IDE controller is not used? Are there any other recommended > > > solutions? > > > > > > this person feels it would be better to install linux on an older machine > > > by itself. I don't really have room for the machine. It is a 7-year old > > > machine and has the original Pentium chip with a speed of 100mhz. The > > > current disk drive is a small 2GB SCSI disk and we would probably ahve to > > > get an IDE disk. I was hoping to have all three operating systems ont he > > > same machine tos ave space. > > > > > > I'd welcome any feedback you may have on this subject. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Barb > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > -- > > > > Janina Sajka, Director > > Technology Research and Development > > Governmental Relations Group > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > > > Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > > http://www.openebook.org > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org