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Re: Potato and new hardware



paul wrote:
> 
> hi there,
> 
> i'm upgrading my current system (intel p2) and i'm getting a thunderbird
> 1.2ghz.
> i've ordered an abit kt7 motherboard, and i'm wondering if i can expect any
> problems?
> 
> should i build a kernel with support for a particular chipset?  and do i need
> any patches or anything?
> 
> thanks for any information.

Should be no problems, but I'd get the kernel-image-2.2.18-ide out of
the kernel-image-2.2.18-i386 pool first.  Good, solid kernel with lots
of IDE chipset support.  If you are getting a KT7-RAID, it's a /bit/
more complicated, but not much.  Burn that bridge when you get there. ;)

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