Questions about linux

[tweeve2002]

I have a few quesions about linux....first the system that is going to be running it is a old P2 with 64MB of RAM there is another 64MB somewhere lying around, it has a 64MB PCI geforce 2 MX-400, Adaptec AHA-2940 Ultra/Ultra Wide SCSI card that works in DOS and all windows systems without installing drivers, window drivers work great, all hard drives and CD-ROM are SCSI. The system has been compleatly formated.

The version of linux that we are looking at is either RedHat 9 or Fedora, not sure what one we are going to use yet.

now onto the questions...
1. The system does not support boot from CD-ROM, the card does the system does not...We can figure how to make a floppy boot disk...a little help here would be alot of help.

2. we are wanting to run some windows programs with the system...how well are the window emulators? how well do they run.

3. This computer is going to be on a network with win2000 and winXP home...are there going to be any protocals that are going need to be installed either on the linux or windows computers.

4. I have noticed that there are usally 2 version of linux to download...a i386 and a SRPMS version what one do we need to install? or does it matter?

 

[jfall]

You can make a boot disk with rawrite, the distro you choose should have documentation on how to create the disk (pretty simple, but make sure you get an image that has scsi support). Wine is the popular windows emulator, works very well (really depends on what programs you are using though, might want to do some more research). The install should guide you through setting up the network connection (same settings as you would use if it were a windows computer pretty much) no special protcols are needed in Windows. Use i386

 

[Nothinman]

2. we are wanting to run some windows programs with the system...how well are the window emulators? how well do they run.

Depends a lot on the programs in question, I believe there's a database at winehq.com that people have put their experiences with different things into.

3. This computer is going to be on a network with win2000 and winXP home...are there going to be any protocals that are going need to be installed either on the linux or windows computers.

Install Samba on the Linux box and it'll do regular Windows file sharing.

4. I have noticed that there are usally 2 version of linux to download...a i386 and a SRPMS version what one do we need to install? or does it matter?

i386 packages are binaries compiled for Intel compatible CPUs, SRPMs are source code.

 

[tweeve2002]

thanks for you help