Hello!
I will be purchasing a dual processor, and although I have
been setting up linux and using it for years, it has been
mostly from a programmer's point of view. I don't know
that much about hardware. Hence, I would appreciate if
some of you would be kind enough to look at the system that
I am proposing. If you have one almost like it and you
have had no problems then I could always make changes required
to make sure that I have little trouble getting a dual processor
up and running and stable.
I have checked the FAQ and all looks well except for the
Symbios controller on the Intel N440BX motherboard. This
is a new feature, as far as I can tell, and I don't know if a driver
is available to support it. I have stuck with a PCI video
card because I have had bad luck configuring X with an AGP
video card. If there are good AGP cards with good drivers
available, then I can switch. I am planning on using the
slackware 3.5 distribution to install linux.
Here is the system:
Dual Pentium II 400
Intel N440BX motherboard (Supports dual 233-400)
On board EIDE w/ 16550 I/O & ECP/EPP
*Integrated Symbios 53C876 Dual Channel SCSI Contoller(1 wide, 1 narrow)
Flash Bios / Intell BX chipset
1 x 128MB SDRAM (100MHz)
9.1GB Quantum Viking UltraWide SCSI Hard Drive
1.44MB floppy drive
32x IDE CD-ROM
ATI 3D Xpression+PC2TV 4MB PCI video card
Intel ETherExpress Pro 10/100 PCI NIC
I don't like to cut corners that only save a few dollars so
suggestions for improvements would be welcome, especially
since I need this machine up and running all the time.
Thank you for your feedback.
Harry Zuzan
