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

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From: Steven C. Hendrickson
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 00:00
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You might look for hardware compatibility in <www.redhat.com> ; also, they
have a big FAQ section dealing with such items.

good luck

Steve Hendrickson

Rusty Tanton wrote in message <36029f85.13476639@news.utk.edu>...
>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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