Linux Question

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:20 am

Does anyone know if these ipaq desktops are any good and if they'll run ubuntu?

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:57 am

Looks ok, nothing really great about them besides the size (which mini-itx can match). If you do go with it get the PIII, 256k L2 cache isn't very big and thats the best that computer has to offer. And the video is also very limited.

If it's just a computer to toy around with, nothing you're going to do any is demanding of the hardware, sure its nice. But it's going to be hampered by expandibility, the graphics card and CPU limitations.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:04 am

Sparkfist wrote:Looks ok, nothing really great about them besides the size (which mini-itx can match). If you do go with it get the PIII, 256k L2 cache isn't very big and thats the best that computer has to offer. And the video is also very limited.

If it's just a computer to toy around with, nothing you're going to do any is demanding of the hardware, sure its nice. But it's going to be hampered by expandibility, the graphics card and CPU limitations.

True, and the ones I can get for way cheap are almost as good without the price.
My athlon xp 2100 only has 128k L1 and 256k L2, and its ok, not exactly mind blowing, though.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:40 pm

Ok, I have my 2GB hard drive in my computer right now as virtual memory, but I want to put my 4GB Maxtor in so that there is enough room to install ubuntu. The only problem is that the 4GB doesn't have the jumper settings on it. It says "ms", "cs", and "ca" on the pcb by the jumper thing, but I want to make it a slave (cable select sucks, doesn't it?). So if anyone knows how to make it a slave and if it would be better to have it a slave or cable select (one hd with xp, the other with linux), your help will be appreciated.

Post by **bicostp** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:48 pm

You said it's a 4 gig Maxtor?

*digs through pile of computer junk*
I know I have one like it...
*digs deeper*

OK Does it have a pair of jumper pins on the board underneath? If so, J50 should be the master/slave jumper. (A jumper on it designates Master, if it's empty it's slave.) Yours may be different; mine is a 3.5 gig model 83500D4.

If it doesn't match, then I assume ms is master/slave and cs is cable select. If you set both to cable select and use an 80 pin wire, the one at the end of the cable should be master.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 3:05 pm

bicostp wrote:OK Does it have a pair of jumper pins on the board underneath? If so, J50 should be the master/slave jumper. (A jumper on it designates Master, if it's empty it's slave.) Yours may be different; mine is a 3.5 gig model 83500D4.

I think thats right, so I took off the jumper and I'll try it out in a sec. How can I choose between booting linux on one hard drive and xp on the other?

Post by **Sparkfist** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 3:28 pm

To answer you questions. MS = Master, CS = Cable Select. Really if you don't have the option for slave set both drives on cable select and be sure that your master drive is on the end of the IDE cable. Really the only thing that cable select does is makes the system look to see what drive is what what you boot it up, and that's only by the BIOS.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:43 pm

Sparkfist wrote:To answer you questions. MS = Master, CS = Cable Select. Really if you don't have the option for slave set both drives on cable select and be sure that your master drive is on the end of the IDE cable. Really the only thing that cable select does is makes the system look to see what drive is what what you boot it up, and that's only by the BIOS.

Ok, I put the 4 gig in on cable select. But for some reason it doesn't show up in My Computer, but does in the device manager. Any help?

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:06 pm

vskid wrote:
Sparkfist wrote:To answer you questions. MS = Master, CS = Cable Select. Really if you don't have the option for slave set both drives on cable select and be sure that your master drive is on the end of the IDE cable. Really the only thing that cable select does is makes the system look to see what drive is what what you boot it up, and that's only by the BIOS.
Ok, I put the 4 gig in on cable select. But for some reason it doesn't show up in My Computer, but does in the device manager. Any help?

Format it?

paul4990 · Post by **paul4990** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 3:59 am

partition it?

atari2600a · Post by **atari2600a** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:35 am

Make sure you set your BIOS to recognize it! (Your PIII mobo BIOS should have an auto-detect option...)

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:26 am

atari2600a wrote:Make sure you set your BIOS to recognize it! (Your PIII mobo BIOS should have an auto-detect option...)

I have never had a PIII in my life, I have an Athlon XP 2100 and the motherboard detected it, windows was just not showing it in My Computer until I formatted it in the computer manager thing.
Formatting it worked, but I couldn't get ubuntu to install on it, it said the partitions I made were too small, but they were about 3x the size it said they were. And when I tried just having it do what it wanted, the installer crashed. Any help?