Re: Asus M2N32 sli deluxe

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:17:56 -0700, robertharvey wrote:

On 19 Aug, 20:26, General Schvantzkoph <schvantzk...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is your BIOS at the latest rev? The first thing I would do is update
the BIOS to the latest release.

Well,, that served me right. I had a poke about and found a more up to
date one and installed it.
That has convinced widnose that every device driver I struggled to
install (pci device, nforce enumerator etc etc have been replaced It
is currently installing loads of things again.

ALong the way it renumbered the the ethernet ports 3 and 4. Oh well, as
long as it is happy.

And it has re-allocated all the drive letters, so that I will have to
edit the Fedora setup where everything was set up to match.

Only downside to Fedora so far. I had created a separate parttion on
one disk for boot, swap, and the various bin locations, so that /home tc
would be on anohter spindle. I ahve found this makes a more responsive
disk. Fedora decided to lump all those partions to gether as one lvm
pool, for /, so I cannot now access the fedora drives from windows with
any of the ext2/3 mounting programmes - they don't appear to understand
lvm in windows.

I don't really care - I will be booting Fedora 80% of the time anyway.


When you did the Fedora install did you do a custom partition or did you
let it do it's own thing? I always use the custom partition method, that
way I don't get anything unexpected like LVMs.


you shouldn't have to dual boot unless you are playing games, you should
be able to stay in Linux 99.98% of the time. If you need some Windows
programs use VMware and run a Windows VM. VMs are vastly more convenient
then dual booting. I'm running multiple VMs now. I have several Windows
VMs, a general one that has Office, Quicken and Quickbooks, and others
that have some Windows FPGA tools. The reason for segregating the Windows
environments is because Windows is so fragile, by using separate VMs you
keep different programs from stomping on each others DLLs. You can also
back up the VMs so if they get infected you can just restore them with a
simple untar. I'm also using some Linux on Linux VMs. Commercial
applications are all targeted at RHEL 4, usually they'll run fine on
Fedora but some times they won't run even with all of the compatibility
libraries installed. Running CentOS VMs on top of Fedora fixes that
problem. You are still using Fedora for the main system so you have the
fewest hardware compatibility issues and you have the best desktop
software, and the VMs fix the software compatibility issues.


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