You may dl Gentus from their website, www.gentus.com
ABIT also has a comparison chart for the differences between 1.0, 2.0, and
3.0
/LT
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Doug McGarrett
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 3:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Athlon thunderbird & ka7-100
There's a review in (or linked from, I forget which) LWN--Linux
Weekly News--by theDukeofURL about running Abit's Gentus Linux,
ver 3.0, on a KA7-100 board. Apparently the installation went
reasonably smoothly. I'll find out for myself pretty soon--I
just bought one of those boards, and it came with a disk marked
ABIT GL6.2E. I hope this is the latest release, (3.0) but I
don't know. The newest files are dated April 2000.
According to the Duke, the Gentus is based on Rawhide. Does
anybody know when Rawhide came out?
There is an ABIT website, but it says nothing about Linux that
I could find.
Best of luck. If you find out anything I haven't mentioned,
please pass it on to me.
At 12:24 09/03/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>I built an Athlon system about 3-4 months ago and started out with the Abit
>motherboard which would NOT work even after trying 2 different boards. I
>switched to Asus K7V and it works great! I haven't really heard anything
>good about the onboard ATA100 nor abit for Athlon. My system is as
follows:
>
>Asus K7V
>Athlon 700
>Matrox G400
>SoundBlaster live
>512 MB RAM
>2x 20 hdd's
>Win2k pro, server, Win98, Linux-Mandrake 7.1, and have had Suse 7.0 loaded
>all at the same time without problems.
>
>Mike
>
>
>Has anyone managed to get any distro to work with an AMD Athlon Thunderbird
>& an Abit KA7-100 motherboard ? machine runs windows NT fine, installs
>Redhat, but it fails with a kernel panic when trying to start for the first
>time, Gentus Linux ( rebadged Redhat supplied with the motherboard) would
>not even complete the installation and Caldera wouldn't install
(fortunately
>it failed quickly :). The machine is not overclocked.
>
