Since your a newbie, I would recommend Mandrake. - Kathy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lyric ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 4:28 PM Subject: [techtalk] building a new linux mahine > Hey everybody, > > I'm relatively new to Linux, ut I've found I've been able to pick up what I > need fairly quickly. My problem today is that I plan to buy parts and build > a new machine strictly for Linux. I just want to make sure that everything > will work by asking whther or not any of you have similar configurations. > > First off, I'll be putting together an AMD Duron socket A system using a > gigabyte board with a via KT133 chipset. The next item is an Asus PCI SCSI > card (using a symbios chipset) hooked to 2 seagate 4.3 GB SCSI drives. > There will be an IDE CD-ROM drive (for installing the system mainly) and a > floppy drive. It'll probably have 64 Meg of RAM, since that's what I have > spare lying around. > > If you could let me know if you foresee any problems with this, I would > greatly appreciate it. I plan to install either Mandrake 7.1 or Debian 2.2 > (most likely mandrake though). > > Thanks a lot everybody, so far you've all been really helpful. > > Anthony > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > > > _______________________________________________ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
