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Hardware Questions from (go figure) a newbie....

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From: Rusty Tanton
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 00:00
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I just picked up my copy of RedHat 5.1.  I'm a newbie to Linux, and
maybe I should have asked these questions before I went and bought the
software. My hardware configuration is as follows:

Intel AL440LX motherboard
Pentium II 333mhz processor
128 megs SDRAM
6 gig Western Digital hard disk on primary IDE 

First, I have a Toshiba SD-M1102 IDE DVD-ROM as the primary drive on
the secondary chain. Will Linux be able to recognize and use this
drive? I don't care if it will read DVDs or not, I just need to be
able to read CD-ROMs with it.

Second, I've heard that Linux does not support the AGP graphics port.
I have a Diamond Stealth G460 AGP card. Will X-Windows run properly
using this card? 

Third, I have an Imation LS-120 internal 3 1/2" disk drive as the
slave on my secondary IDE chain (not on the floppy controller). The
same goes for this as the DVD ROM, I don't care about reading the 120
meg disks, just regular old floppies.

The BIOS says that all of these drives are bootable, but the DVD
wouldn't boot Windows 98 directly...I had to install DOS from a floppy
first, and then Windows from there. I plan to use either Partition
Magic or System Commander, so I'm really just asking about hardware
compatibility.

Thanks,
Rusty Tanton
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