64 bit linux

[Mike Reinehr]

On Saturday 20 November 2004 06:33 pm, Richard R. Sivernell wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 12:09:39 -0600
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> Thanks Mike, I will look into the link you passed, what mobo are you using,
> how much ram memory. I want al lest 250 mg hd and 2 - 4 g memory. I do like
> asus, but need to ck if asus has a mobo that is Linux ready. This will be
> the last big upgrade for a while, my wife only allows this every 3 or 4
> years.
>
> cheers

 I've been using Tyan for servers and Asus for workstations. This one is a 
Tyan S2882G3NR ( a dual socket 940 board but I'm using only a single Opteron 
240), 1GB of RAM & 4 160GB SATA drives. (I don't remember, off the top of my 
head, what the maximum is, but it's a lot more than 1GB.)

 I used the Debian From Scratch method described in the howto and had only two 
problems. For some reason hotplug was not recognizing the imbedded network 
interfaces during the boot-up, but that was fixed easily. It took a little 
longer for me to get the SATA drives working, but they're working just fine, 
now. (Again, I can't remember the details, but I think moving to the 2.6.x 
kernel solved the problem.)

Mike
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