Re: IBM microdrive.

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

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