Re: Are there motherboards Linux can't use?

From: Steve Wolfe (unt_at_see.signature.com)
Date: 10/21/03 

Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 11:18:43 -0600

> I have never seen a way for loading a third-party driver during the
> installation process, be it Linux or Windows. With (Suse) Linux, you
> can load network and SCSI drivers that may be needed for the
> installation process, but these are only drivers that come on the
> installation CDs/floppies.
>
> To load a driver, the system must run already, even if its early in
> the installation process. So the board should at least boot
> Linux. Whether you then get the best performance (e.g. IDE DMA can be
> enabled) or whether all on-board hardware (e.g. sound) works is
> another thing.

  Every Linux distro I've used has had the ability. In RedHat, you're
given a choice from the first menu as to which type of installation. One
will let you insert a driver disk for hardware you have. Windows NT and
2000 both have similar mechanisms, something like "Press f6 if you need to
use a driver disk."

steve

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