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I've been a Debian "die hard" for about 5 years (that will remain for
servers), and a RedHat defector before that. Last week my
all-singing-all-dancing Athlon64 system arrives with Asus K8V SE Deluxe
mother board. I was "given" a copy of Suse 9.1 Pro by my boss and asked to
evaluate it.
Here's how the install went:
** Windows **
Run up Win2K first, give it 100Gb of the 200Gb SATA drive. No brainer, but
it was a pain to get the SATA controller to work during the install; the
driver disk image was on the motherboard CD, need computer running windows
to extract it.....computer can't install windows coz it needs the
controller driver - ugh. Wine to the rescue (lappy)!
** Suse 9.1 Pro **
Drop in the Suse 9.1 x86_64 DVD and see what happens. Booted off
the DVD, detected all the hardware, and I mean ALL of it - even the
on-board 10/100/1000 3Com NIC, the VIA Firewire controller, the USB2
controller, even the weirdo VIA embedded sound card!! It then promptly
set up the network via DHCP, downloaded the updates (including the latest
Nvidia driver), rebooted with a new
kernel and that was it! Wow.
So if anyone is wondering about compatibility and installation headaches
with "cutting edge" hardware I can confirm the following kit Just Works
straight out of the box with Suse 9.1 (and probably anything else with a
2.6 kernel):
- - Athlon64 3000+ (O/C to 2100MHz IIRC)
- - 1GB DDR400 (matched pair) - Kingston. Recommended by Asus.
- - Asus KV8 SE Deluxe mother board (1003 BIOS)
- - Leadtek Winfast A360 (Nvidia FX5700, 256Mb)
- - Western Digital 200GB SATA (connected to VIA RAID, not the Promise RAID
controller - yep there's 2 RAID controllers on this mobo!)
- - Samasung SM352 Combo CDRW + DVD-ROM
- - Sony FDD
- - Antec 400W Full Tower
Haven't fully tested the Firewire yet, but I can confirm the USB2 works at
USB2 speed - not those dorky USB2 controllers that are only fractionally
better than USB1.1!
James
- --
Prof: So the American government went to IBM to come up with a data
encryption standard and they came up with ...
Student: EBCDIC!"
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