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I am about to install Redhat 5.1 and their instruction manual doesnot
specifically state the it suppports anything but Intel. It does mention
that there is occasional problems with an AMD k6 but also says it may be
the MB Bios also.
Additionally, Linux doesnot take advantage of the 3D Now technology nor
the MMX for that matter. So I thought it would be good to use it in a WIN
95 based machine.
As for installing LINUX.... Iwould would spend about a week or two just
reading FAQs. The hardest part is partitioning the HDs so 1. you don't
lose your existing data if you don't have a backup to reinstall and 2. You
will likely want a dual boot system.
At 01:30 PM 10/31/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>I am building a Linux Box (etc.)
>
>Sorry I can't help with your problem, but maybe you can
>clear something up for me. I'd gotten the impression that
>Linux was not yet entirely debugged for the AMD chips.
>Has it run stably for you? Or am I asking too soon?
>
>I'm curious because the Compaq portable I'm working on
>now uses an AMD chip, and Win95 on it is driving me nuts.
>(Two scrub-to-the-bare-silicon reinstallations in six months,
>with one more now overdue!) If it would run reliably under
>Linux, I'd be sorely tempted
>to switch.
>
>Many thanks.
>
>Owen Davies
Charles Kaucher
If a man speaks in a forest, and his wife is not there to hear him, is he
still wrong? -- anonymous
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