> 266 Mhz Pentium CPU
you mean pentium ][.
> Asus P2L97 motherboard
it'll work. my only concern is that i'm not certain that the linux
triton driver recognizes and supports DMA busmastering with the 440LX
chipset's integrated EIDE controller. 2.0.32 and 2.0.33 don't appear
to. it's a relatively easy patch to make it work, probably, and there
may be one out there. this is purely a performance issue, though, and
linux will work with this board.
> 64MB SD RAM (2 x 32MB DIMM)
why not 1 DIMM?
> ATI 3D Xpression 4MB video card
definitely go matrox. the millenium ][ AGP is supported in XFree 3.3.2
and works extremely well. the cheaper PCI mystique cards also work
well and have the added advantage of working out of the box with RH
5.0 which ships with XFree 3.3.1.
> DLINK DE-530 CT+ NIC (NT recognizes this as a DEC PCI Ethernet DECchip 21041)
yep. tulip cards rock under linux.
> 6.4GB Fujitsu Ultra DMA HDD
i prefer seagate, but either will work fine. many people here run
linux on fujitsu UDMA drives since we get them cheap and do so with
little incident. however, i've seen more fujitsus die prematurely than
seagates.
> Logitech mouse
accept nothing less.
> No sound card or other adapters. No dual boot. This is to be a
> dedicated Linux system. I'm mostly concerned with the video card and the
> NIC. I note that RH lists DEC 2104* network cards on their compatibility
> list, so that will *probably* work. The ATI video card may be a bit too
> new. Any thoughts on all this will be appreciated.
the video card is always the big sticking point. matrox has become a
pretty safe bet and has the advantage of much better performance
across the board than the recent ATI cards i've seen.
tim
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