[KLUG Members] Athlon/Opteron 64

[Tim Gray]

*Gasp*  And here I've been looking at Via and Promise's website.  I never 
bothered to dig into ASUS' site.

Thanks muchly, I'll probably expend effort on it this weekend and I'll let you 
know.

On Fri March 12 2004 8:33 am, Nikolas Reist wrote:
> http://www.asus.com/support/download/selectftp.aspx?l1_id=1&l2_id=20&l3_id=
>1&m_id=1&f_name=378Linux.zip~zaqwedc
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Tim Gray wrote:
> >You will not NEED a special version.  The AMD64's run x86 software just
> > fine.
> >
> >You will need to be careful about your drive controllers though.  I have a
> >system with a Via and a Promise RAID SATA controller.  Neither is actually
> >set up to run as a RAID, but I haven't had any luck getting those
> > controllers to work under Linux.  FYI:  It's an ASUS KV8 MOBO.  Other
> > MOBOs with SATA RAID controllers ARE supported under Linux, I just made a
> > bad assumption and chose the wrong board.  My bad.
> >
> >I have not tried any of the AMD64-specific distros yet.  I have seen that
> >Mandrake, Suse and Fedora each have AMD64 ISOs for their distros, but I
> >haven't bothered to download any and probably won't until I can determine
> > if my drive controllers will be supported.
> >
> >I've considered forgoing installing Linux on my SATA drives and using the
> >regular IDE controllers just for Linux, leaving the SATA drives for gaming
> > in Windows.  Huge waste of the SATA tech and the drive space, but until I
> > can get those controllers to work, I'm kinda SOL.
> >
> >On Fri March 12 2004 7:37 am, Nikolas Reist wrote:
> >>Is there a specialized version of RedHat that I will require if I build
> >>a system with an AMD 64?
> >>
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