I recently failed miserably at my first newbie attempt to install SuSE
Linux 6.0 on my home built overclocked Celeron 300a system.
Specs in case anyone actually cares:
Inwin A500 case with 300 watt power supply, dual case fans
Celeron 300a, overclocked to 450 mhz, 4.5 mhz locked clock
multiplier x 100 mhz front side bus setting. (the processor has
posted and run well at 464 mhz, haven't tried 504 mhz yet)
Glacier 4500C, triple fan/heatsink processor cooling unit.
IBM 12.9 gig deskstar 7200 rpm ultra dma hard drive
Kenwood True-52X 7 laser head cd-rom drive
Diamond Monster Sound MX300 Soundcard
Creative Labs 16 Meg Banshee video card, with a dual fan cooling
unit.
19" Monitor ... blah, blah, blah, blah...and yes there are 7 fans in
my case!
Anywho ... I had problems relating to hard drive partitioning,
was using Powerquest's Partition Magic, in hopes of having
a Win98 and Linux dual boot system. Not to mention that
the Banshee card seems to be unsupported by XFree86 so I
wiped out the partition and gave up! Lame I am .... yes.
So essentially I'm looking for any advice in regards to
what video card I should go out and buy ... NVidia TNT
based or what? I will say that I HATE ati cards and would
rather not deal with the garbage they sell. I want something
that will kick ass in 2d as well as 3d.
Sound card? MX300 ... lost cause? Partitioning ... any
advice that anyone who's used Partition Magic can offer?
I successfully set up a Win98/NT Server dual boot configuration,
took no friggin time at all and have been developing software
as a profession for the last 10 years (with quite a good record of
success) so I don't think I'm a lost cause. but Linux makes me feel
stupid, despite some Unix C development experience (Apertus
Technologies Enterprise Access if you're interested, middleware
screen scraping "stuff", interfacing with legacy mainframe app's)
on Solaris and EXTENSIVE experience with an IBM RS6000 running
AIX, 6 - 604 processor's, 1.5 gigs of ram and 200 gigs of DASD and
IBM DB2/6000.
I've spent $400 on win98 license's recently and I won't tell you what my
copy of Visual Studio Enterprise Edition cost me ... please help
me break my microshaft shackles!
And what's up with USB peripheral (keyboard and mouse) support
for Linux?
later,
Jon
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