Re: Dibian on Gigabyte GA-7VRXP motherboard.
Hello,
May be I found the problem.
My new PC is installed by default with Windows XP, I discover that the file
system of the Hard disk is NTFS, rather than FAT or FAT32.
I guess that the installer of my Suse version does not support this file
system (I do not found anythink relating about the NTFS on SuSe site).
Does Debian support the NTFS (I cannot found anythink as the search engine
on Debian site is temporarily unavailable).
If my supposition is correct I 'm afraid that I'll have to re-format on
FAT32 my Hard Disk.
What do you think about ?
Thanks again for your help.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Ian Smit" <robian@wanadoo.nl>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: Dibian on Gigabyte GA-7VRXP motherboard.
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 12:18:34AM +0200, pCarlo wrote:
> > I had a previous version of linux distribution (SuSE 7.1), which
> > works fine on my previous PC. Since I changed my PC, it was not
> > possible to install the SuSE distribution (the Suse installer
> > does not found the Hard Disk ), because the GA-7VRXP do not have
> > the update drivers for linux ( the reseller said, because the
> > motherboard type is to much recent).
>
> That's weird. Those new hard disk controllers are usually (always?)
> backward compatible. If you don't include native support in the
> kernel for a new chipset, you will not get the system to run as fast
> as it possibly can, but access to disks should not be a problem.
>
> Does anything, say Windows, run on the machine? Maybe you have a
> hardware problem or the BIOS is not setup correctly.
>
> (BTW harware gurus are not always Linux gurus. In my experience they
> really hate to use software, they'd rather work on their cooling) ;)
>
> > Then I search for a distribution which may be support this type
> > of news motherboard, to install correctly a linux distribution.
> > I search this information on the Debian site but I do not found
> > clearly if this type of motherboard was supported. Does it ?
>
> If it is a KT333 motherboard, probably yes. I am not sure what
> extra devices (sound, lan, video, whatever) Gigabyte includes on the
> board. But the basics should work. After that you optimize to
> get the performance, you upgraded for in the first place.
>
> > May be the Debian distribution should respond to my problem ? I
> > hope. I'll appreciate any suggestion.
>
> You might get lucky here. But any Linux distribution should to the
> trick. Just the fact that you don't see a designed for... or
> optimized for... slogan does not mean you are SOL.
>
> Give it a try. It will be at least much easier to answer questions
> regarding issues you might encounter.
>
> Bob
>
>
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