On Monday 24 June 2002 09:46 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Monday 24 June 2002 12:29, Nick Andriash wrote: > > I have been humming and hawing about installing Mandrake 8.2 for some > > time now, but perhaps you fine people can help allay my fears: > > > > 1) I will be purchasing a new Box to install 8.2 on, and most likely will > > be a P III 1.3Ghz with a 40 GB HDD, CDRW, etc., but am worried about > > SNIP > > One more tip I meant to give you Nick.. You will find Linux will install on > virtually any hardware, but brand new 'exotic' hardware should be avoided > unless you know a Linux driver exists for it. (For example Nvidia NForce > chip sets have only recently been supported) Also do not bother buying a > Motherboard with on board IDE RAID It will be difficult to install Linux > on it, Linux will not be able to use the on board RAID, and in any case > Linux can do a superior version of RAID without any motherboard hardware at > all. > > Western Digital Hard Drives should be avoided since WD specifically say > they do not support Linux and most HD problems on this list are with WD > Hard drives. > > The hardware you are most likely to have problems with are scanners and > printers. > Scanners not on this list are unlikely to work. > http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html > > Printers mostly will work, but with differing degrees of print quality. > Check out your printer here :- http://www.linuxprinting.org/ > > Mandrake will autodetect and install your scanner and printer for you, but > will obviously only be able to do it for supported models. > > HTH > > derek
Nick: While we're on the subject of hardware, here's another headsup: Get a real modem. An external type that uses a serial port connection is certain to work, but after that it gets a bit murky. Some PCI cards work fine, others are going to take some extra work, and still others just won't work. Take a look at: linmodems.org www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html -- cmg
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