ramzi@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Ramzi Al-Majid) writes:
:
: several people recommended that i take a look at linux. however, i have a
: few questions that i would like to get answers for before i do that. and
: please be patient here since eventhough i am a faithfull unix user for 8
: years now, i have not actually played with internals.
:
: 1. is it possible for linux to coexist with DOS 5.0 on a separate partition
: and exchange files with each other ?
The answer is "yes" to both questions. You can access DOS partitions
with Linux, but I don't know if you can do the opposite. If someone has a pro-
gram that will read Minix filesystems under DOS, I'd like to be steered in its
direction.
: 2. does lunix support a variety of hardware like scsi controllers, video
: cards, hard disk drives, tape drives, etc. etc. ?
It supports a large number of SCSI cards, don't know which ones, but I do be-
lieve a lot of the major ones, like ST-01, WD7000 FASST, Future Domains, et al
are supported and probably more on the way.
Hard drives: ST-506 MFM and RLL are certainly supported, and so are IDE
drives.
Tape drives I believe are supported as well.
: 3. is it possible to have seceral people login at the same time through
: modems and telephone lines remotely ? if so, how and what hardware is
: required ? do i need a single per user or are there multiplexers that will
: connect several users simultaneously through several phone linbes ?
The only way I know of to do multiuser is to use the regular COM1-COMx ports,
but I'm not sure about boards like the DigiBoard.
Hope this answers a few of your questions. I've been running Linux
for almost a month and I _LOVE_ it!
Good luck!
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