Early Beige G3 machines (those with a "Rev 1" motherboard with an ATI RageII+ chip) do not support slave IDE drives. To use a second hard drive with this machine, you would have to attach it to the internal or external SCSI connector, use install a PCI IDE card. Later G3 machines do not have this limitation. See http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G3-ZONE/IDE/index.html for more information. I have a revision A or B iMac.

Okay, sure, some MIPS machines aren't the fastest boxes on the block these days. However, despite the age of some of these beasts, they still can make very functional, useful machines. A Cobalt Qube 2 could make a very nice broadband Internet router, capable of hosting websites, email, IRC and numerous other tasks. There are a number of reasons why you'd want to install Linux on this sort of hardware. Status Symbol: Linux on x86 is so common these days it's not funny.

No, RADIUS was designed for individual PC use and certain configuration files will not work if the program is stored anywhere but the C: drive.

You can, but you'll void your warranty in the process. For details from someone who's done this, see David Moore's page about adding a HDD to your empeg. Contributed by Rob Leslie

We believe that it is better to have an audio drive that stores all audio material that is separate from the system drive.

Download the Unix version of PostMaster (pm_other.zip). Should you have a problem downloading it and you are in India, please contact us and we will ship you a CD with the software, at our cost. Make sure you have Java 1.1.x on your Linux computer. You can obtain a free copy from java.sun.com. Java 1.1.6 is available on the PostMaster CD, which we will be happy to ship across anywhere in India at our cost. Please feel free contact us, if you need to.

Linux does not know the concept of drive letters. RedHat Linux cannot be installed in a Windows Partition. Follow the instructions above.

WinRescue will back up to an external harddrive as long as it is listed in Windows Explorer as a regular harddrive. WinRescue backs up files and not a harddrive image. So, the harddrive's boot information is not backed up. Making a Boot Disk in WinRescue (95/98/ME) will save the boot information on a diskette.

Although facilities for this operation are available on the CD, I have never attempted to do it. Aside from this fact, there are still some good reasons NOT to install "the Hack" on your hard drive. The knx-installer is still available on this CD. Do a Google for more specific and up-to-date instructions applicable to your hardware and situation.

There are many different ways a Hard Drive may be installed. A basic installation is achieved as follows: First, set the jumpers to the correct positions... Single / Master / Slave --------------------------------------------- For models starting with SHD, TBR or PLS CD / Jumped / Jumped Open DSP / Open / Jumped Open For models starting with STG or WNR CD / Jumped / Jumped Open Second, attach data and power cables to hard drive.

You can use this Live-CD perfectly for most anything a PC can do. (surfing, playing movies or music, watching tv, writing your dissertation, solving problems with your hard drive ...) Installation to the hard drive is much more comfortable and lots faster than running a system off CD. So, lets get going! This How-To is specifically for Kanotix 2005-04 (for older versions refer to: http://wiki.kanotix.net/coma.

Just use your order number to re-register by going to help/register... If you do not know your order number send an email to support@modelworks.com with your name, email address, the name of the product and when and where you purchased it. If it was purchased by someone other than you, please provide details.

Yes, but only with Linux and homebrew software. PSBBN checks the firmware of the HDD and Sony customizes the firmware of their HDD units. Until someone manages to crack the firmware and make it so you can put the changes on your own hard drive, you need an official HDD unit from Sony to use with games. Here's proof that the Sony HDD is just a relabled Maxtor hard drive. I've scanned my hard drive right here.

Ans: A standard 40-wire IDE cable WILL work with ATA-33, ATA-66, ATA-100 or ATA-133 drives but it will only allow 33MB/s performance. However, it is recommended that you use an Ultra ATA 80-wire/40-pin cable no matter what your drive rating for several reasons: wire/40-pin cables offer improved data reliability and signal integrity by adding 40 more ground wires than standard 40-wire/40-pin IDE cables.

To make the boot code default to drive 1 look in /sys/{arch/}i386/bootboot.c for the following (or similar.

The obvious answer is to use 'disklabel -w -r /dev/rwd1d'. Unfortunately, this does not always put a real disklabel on the drive. The symptom is that the drive labels and can be used until the system is reset, at which point the system tries to read the label from the disk. It was never actually written to the disk, so the operation fails. There are also reports that the /usr/mdec files are corrupted in some of the distributions.

Linspire automatically detects hardware and peripherals each time the system boots so additional hardware, like an additional hard drive, can be added at any time. Due to the complexities and interactions of hardware, firmware, and software, not all hardware configurations will be compatible with one another under Linspire. Configuring and testing a machine of the specific configuration is highly recommended. For more information view the Linspire document FAQ # 365. No.

Windows communicates with the various devices in your computer using drivers. One of these drivers allows it to read the hard disk, which leads to an interesting chicken-and-egg situation: How does Windows read the hard disk in order to load the driver that allows it to read the hard disk? The answer is that during the very earliest part of the boot process, the hard disk is visible in a primitive way through the BIOS.

Due to the uniqueness of many of these devices where most components does not have Linux drivers readily available, we currently does not offer Linux installation on all devices. However, we are more than happy to assist you to find resources that can assist you on installing Linux OS yourselves.

If you need to install Windows NT and Linux on the same machine, read the Linux and NT HOWTO that has been prepared by Bernd Reichert. The latest version can be found at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html. Partition and install Windows NT first, making sure to leave space for Linux to place its partitions. If possible, do not create any logical partitions, as we have had reports of this causing problems. Get NT running and its boot loader happy.

The installer includes support for generic IDE devices, CDROMs connected via an Adaptec SCSI interface, and CDROMs connected via USB. If your drive doesn't fit into any of these categories, then the installer also includes the ability to use a driver you provide (although in many cases finding a USB CDROM drive will be easier than finding a driver . . .).

Well, not really. Macromedia has not supplied a linux/ppc binary and open source implementations are incomplete and buggy at this time. Three projects that are working on this problem are: Another possible workaround for now is to use qemu (an x86 emulator) to run the Macromedia Flash Player 6 stand alone player. This process was described in the forums: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117774

Yes, a Java plugin is now available with IBM's Java 1.5. Note that not all Java applications work with Java 1.5 yet.

It is as easy (or as hard) as installing a hard disk in your system. If you have never had the case off of your computer, and are afraid to deal with that end of things, then you had best find someone else to do it. If on the other hand, you have ever added a drive or a card to you system, it should be a piece of cake. The only tool you are likely to need is a screw driver.

Yes, with certain precautions. Unfortunately, both Solaris/x86 and Linux swap partitions use the same ID, 0x83. So if you install Solaris on a drive with a Linux swap partition already on it, it will install on the Linux swap partition. You have two choices: You can put the Linux swap partition on another drive (or not use a swap partition if you have enough memory). You can install Linux after (not before Solaris).

Yes, if you have a PERQ-2, T2 or T4. One caveat: the second drive cannot be used with POS. However, POS is used to format the drive before Accent or PNX can be used. There is also some information about this addition in the PERQ-T2 Service Guide. Double Disc Setup: * this cable has 3 connectors, unshown is connection to disc 1 ------------------------------------ | | 34-pin daisy-chain cable * | JC |===================== | Disc 1 with Disc interface | ! | board attached (shown).