Re: IBM microdrive.
Paul Allen <[email protected]>
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Roberto Migliorati wrote: > > Hi all, > here's my first question to this mailing list, so please be kind!! > Is a 340MB IBM microdrive enough to install Intimate plus maybe X and/or QPE > and/or KDE?? If not, which one is best? The 1GB one...?? Too expensive yet!! > Another questioin involves ethernet cards; which ones are known to work > reliably under Intimate? I've got one of the 5Gb Toshiba PCMCIA drives and an ancient Xircom "CreditCard Ethernet Adapter IIps" on my 3650 with a dual-slot sleeve. The hard drive is often not recognized on a reboot. Pulling and re-inserting the drive usually changes its mind and lets me boot Intimate. The Intimate install was only about 180Mb or so, but it was missing some things I find essential such as perl/Tk. I'm now up to about 230Mb and climbing and that'll go a lot higher when I start storing actual data on the drive. I think I'd be quite cramped in 340Mb. Paul Allen -- Boeing Phantom Works \ Paul L. Allen, (425) 865-3297 Math & Computing Technology \ [email protected] POB 3707 M/S 7L-40, Seattle, WA 98124-2207 \ Prototype Systems Group