Re: Asus A8N-vm
- From: "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:45:05 -0500
Douglas Mayne wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:17:27 +0200, Thomas Wendell wrote:
>
>> Anybody installed any distro on an Asus A8N-VM, and if so, how??
>>
>> As a total Linux newbie, I'd need instructions made of steel wire...
>>
> This thread from Friday shows someone having success with
> this board loading Debian, (with some persistence):
> http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/msg/5dca82f2eca84a7c
>
> This board has both SATA and IDE disc connectors. If you are using
> only IDE, then the installation of any distro will be by the book. The
> thread above shows the board will work with SATA, too.
>
> "Instructions made of steel wire" is an expression which I'm not
> familiar with. The documentation for all of the major distributions
> is very mature and well done at this point. You can review the
> instructions for the distribution of your choice at your leisure.
And a small note for you: the identification of SATA drives, depending on
the controller and your particular distribution, may be as "/dev/hd*" type
devices like IDE drives on some older kernels, or "/dev/sd*" devices or SCSI
like devices on newer kernels. Simply upgrading the kernel within a
distribution can also cause this to occur, and it'll drive you bugfutz if
you run into it. So I urge you to use the most recent stable kernel and
distribution you can, so this doesn't happen down the road and make your
life very difficult.
.
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