[LBo] How to installl linux to Pentium D

[David Herman]

On Saturday 02 December 2006 05:57, Ali Metin wrote:
> INTEL PENTIUM D 945 3.4GHz LGA775 800MHz
> HT 2x2MB PR DUAL COREASUS
>   P5B DELUXE P965 LGA 775 CORE2 DUO COMPATIBLE MOTHERBOARD2 x 1GB
> DDR2 RAMI have a box like this. I want to install a linux distro
> and kernel (which benefits more from this box) .But I dont know
> which. What do you suggest?

Something that people haven't been addressing is your specific 
hardware.

I have an asus p5b (not deluxe) based on the 965 chipset. This 
particular board only supports 1 IDE drive through an seperate 
jMicron PATA/SATA controller.

I have never had so much trouble inastalling an operating system as 
I did with this motherboard (and I've been setting up my own linux 
multi-boot systems for about 6 years now). To make things worse any 
google search for p5b brings up every variation of the motherboard 
and very little of the information is specific to the basic p5b.

Having said that, if your board relies on the jMicron controller 
then the advice I have is to use a distro that runs off the 2.6.18 
or later kernel, or (as I had to do) get ahold of a usb cdrom drive 
and install linux from that. (I believe that if you know how to set 
up an installer cd from a usb key this would work too but I haven't 
tried).

I believe that opensuse 10.2 uses the 2.6.18+ kernel so it should 
install w/out probs but I won't know for sure until it's released 
on thursday. 

HTH

-- 
dh