On Sun, 19 Sep 1999 13:14:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I recently purchased a IBM 500 MHz Pentium III Aptiva, with 128M,
>RW-drive, 17 G hard drive, and a DVD.
>IBM's technical support just told me that if I try to put linux on the
>system, they can not guarantee that I can get anything ever running on
>the computer again, and will not give technical support even to restore
>Windows 98, if my installation would be unsuccessful.
<snip>
Julius,
I have a similar PIII (apart from the RW-drive).
No problem with installing either RedHat 5.2 or Mandrake 6.0.
Use either OSS or ALSA to get sound. The only disappointment is
the %#&"/" Winmodem, but get a real modem instead.
Haven't found any use for the DVD yet, only using CDs.
You might have to be careful of that 17 gig disk, with regards
to primary/extended partitions...
If there's a problem, just insert the recovery-CD and restore the
Win98 environment (provided you have the different OSes in different
partitions) on the Win98 part of the disk.
regards,
Anders Jarnberg
...Merlin & Mandrake...
