[techtalk] building a new linux mahine

[Kath]

Since your a newbie, I would recommend Mandrake.

- Kathy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lyric ." <lyric340 at hotmail.com>
To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
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
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