Re: [techtalk] Installing Suse on new computer...need advice

2001-06-09 Thread Mary E. Mulderrig
I have multiple SCSI drives and do RAID 10 and installed SUSE 7.1 with no problems. The set up program YAST 2 regonized my SCSI card and things went without a hitch. I hope that this helps. All the best, Mary. > My experience has been that Linux supports SCSI very well indeed, > as does Redhat

Re: [techtalk] Installing Suse on new computer...need advice

2001-06-09 Thread Akkana
Nancy Corbett writes: > > I am looking at buying the computer described below, and one of the guys > at work says that I will have all kinds of problems installing Linux on it > because of the SCSI hard drive. Is this true? I'm not a hardware person > at all and have never installed Linux on a

Re: [techtalk] Installing Suse on new computer...need advice

2001-06-07 Thread Mandi
It will depend on the controller. You'll probably want to call them and ask if they can tell you for sure which card you would get with the machine, and then look on the net. SCSI in general is A-OK, but some adapters are more supported than others. --m On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Nancy Corbett wrot

Re: [techtalk] Installing Suse on new computer...need advice

2001-06-07 Thread Penguina
If you have real trouble, you could always get an IDE drive, connect it to the PCI IDE interface, and use that for your boot & system stuff. 9 GB isn't much for multimedia applications, if that's what you want to use it for (one of the few justifications for SCSI Ultra160) and you'll want dedic