lets-eat-gary Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 Hi people, Just wondering if it is possible to install Mandrake 10 OE on a SATA drive. I have a Asus Nforce2 MotherBoard and a AMD XP 3000 CPU. Also should i use the SMP kernel with my new CPU? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 you don't want to use SMP. SMP is symetric multiprocessing and is only usefull on systems with two cpu's or on the pentiums which have hyperthreading technology. it would actually not work on a single-cpu AMD system. AFAIK, you can install on a SATA drive, but there may be a trick to it. I know chin808 has done this, so hopefully he'll stop in and give some input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstreed Posted August 5, 2004 Report Share Posted August 5, 2004 I got Mandrake 10OE to install on my AMD64 SATA system. I'm using a KT800 based motherboard. Works like a charm. The installer picked up the hard drive with no problems. Make sure whatever motherboard you're going to use has a linux supported chipset. The first motherboard I used was an sis 755, and was definitely not supported. Anything that uses a VIA chipset or Promise SATA controller should work fine. jstreed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chin808 Posted September 4, 2004 Report Share Posted September 4, 2004 I got the sata working outta the box no probs with suse, mandrake and knoppix... I have the same kt800 chipset. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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