Re: Will Debian run on my system?
:: On Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:52:22 -0500, "Eric Gillespie, Jr." <epg@pobox.com> said:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:15:58PM -0500,
> Matthew W. Roberts <matt@lehi.tamu.edu> wrote:
>> I'm looking at buying a used computer and want to install Debian
>> on it. I've taken a serious liking to the following and would
>> appreciate any comments on whether or not there will be any hardware
>> problems with it. Many thanks!
> It all looks fine to me. The only thing that might give you
> trouble are the Soundblaster and TNT cards, tough i'm not sure.
> Probably someone more informed about newer graphics and sound
> cards will tell you.
Maybe ATA/66 is not supported for his motherboard? I'm not sure, but a
few chipsets have "partial" support only, and sometimes no
support. But I think this is being worked on (and pretty fast).
I know some VIA chipsets are not supported (because they're buggy),
and others are partially supported (because they're new).
J.
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