[wellylug] Mandrake for Athlon64

[Rob Giltrap]

Wood Brent wrote:

>My copy of Mandrake v9.2 for Athlon64 arrived today (official 4 disk set)
>
>Unfortunately I won't have the hardware I want to play with this for a few
>weeks.
>Sigh...
>
>At the moment I'm planning on using a Shuttle XPC with nForce3 150 chipset, 1Gb
>DDR400 memory, A64 3200 cpu, MX440 64Mb graphics card & tho I'd like a WD 74Gb
>Raptor SATA drive, I think $$ will constrain me to a more conventioal hard
>drive. DVD/CDRW combo & BT875 chipset TV card. 
>
>Any advice/info/concerns about this setup welcomed.
>
>  
>
 From the deep recesses of my mind I think I recall there being an issue 
of booting Linux from an SATA drive. I may be completely wrong or out of 
date but I think that you must first boot from a non SATA drive but then 
you can use the SATA drive fully from that point on. I cannot for the 
life of me remember where I saw this so just take it as a heads up for 
something to double check on.

Yours is the first PC I have seen spec'ed at 1GB memory

1981 - ZX81 = 1 kilobyte of memory
2004 - AMD = 1,048,576 kilobytes of memory

Ohh how the years have flown.