At 11:46 07.08.1999 -0400, you wrote --------> This was the original Message: MK>Hi Michelle; MK> MK>I don't believe that Linux (any distribution) and XFree will both fit MK>on your ZIP disk.
I must make a srtiped down Version MK>You can not install X without "graphic card dependencies". That is, MK>to display X sessions on your computer there must be an xserver that MK>"knows how" to speak to your graphics hardware. Why does it work with DOS and the 640x480x256 Mode ??? MK>OTOH, you can install as many different xservers on any one machine MK>as you want (though only one is the default). I have seen it !!! MK>The configuration files for X are in /etc/X11/ (and _might_ have to MK>be different for each of your different machines). Can I have several config files with a menu to choose which one at Startup ??? MK>NIC's are usually modules and generally other than taking up a little MK>room on the hard drive there is usually no problem with having NIC MK>modules for cards not actually present in the machine. The NIC modules are very small And they will be around 200 Kbyte max. MK>It sounds to me as though you want to do an installation on a machine MK>(to a zip disk?) and then use that same installation on other MK>machines? Doing so is not "trivial"! MK> MK>During installation a number of things happen that are specific to MK>the machine that the installation is actually occurring on... MK>Hostname and IP address is set as well as some hardware identification. To do that, I need a startup menu, because I use a fixed Network with cable modem and DHCP and sometimes PPP MK>While I have now several times moved either a SCSI or a IDE hard drive MK>from one machine to another (that contained a full, bootable, Linux MK>system) and actually had the target machine work, I believe that there MK>was a _lot_ of luck involved! Thanks for your answer Webmistress Michelle form Strasbourg
