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Re: Dual P3 installation
Alex Dvash wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I'm trying to insert , linux boxes as an OEM product in my company
> So I bought a dual pentium III 450 MHz. with 384 MB, in a Asus mainboard,
> plus 2 IDE disks, 9GB and 20GB, and a trident AGP display adapter with 4MB,
> 3com905 and Adaptec 2940UW.
> I tried Red Hat 6.0 and SuSe 6.1, and nothing. It fails somewhere in the
> installation process, it just get stuck, and again with another installation
> intent.
> My workgroup can't believe that its so bad. In the same computer they
> installed NT 4.0 and it works ok. Linux looks like a game for freaks.
> Maybe Linux doesn't like dual processing?, or Asus is a bad mainboard for
> Linux?
> Do someone have any experience with this kind of hardware?
Before you buy a machine to install Windows NT on the first thing you
should
do, per Microsoft, is check out its hardware compatibility guide.
Machines that are not listed in this guide are not supported. If you
installed NT on such a machine and it worked; that's great, but
Microsoft will still not support it. If you did not even bother to
check this guide out, and you call Microsoft with problems your in for a
polite (depending on the mood of the tech) I told you so. It has been
this way since the creation of Windows NT, and I suspect will stay this
way as long as NT is sold.
With Linux it is not much different. There are Hardware compatibility
lists out there for Linux in general, and, specifically, if you are
installing a Red Hat distribution, you should (have) look(ed) at the
Hardware Compatibility list on Red Hat's site. This, as NT's guide
does, list all the hardware which they say is supported, some which they
say it will work somewhat, others they say it won't work at all, and
lastly some which are as of yet unknown quantities.
So the moral to the story is that before you buy a machine to load Linux
on, or if you already have the machine and want to know if it will run
Linux, consult the Hardware Compatibility Guides (there are multiple).
If you choose to use a specific distribution make sure to read the
documentation specific to that distribution (i.e. RH's Hardware
Compatibility Guide).
Regards...james
> Any ideas.. are welcome
>
> Thanx
>
> Aleks
>
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