Linux your PC - or maybe not?

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Hi,

because of this https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=76146 thread I decided to start a Linux thread. I think Linux could be a great opportunity to Windows. Maybe most of you don't play games that much or use a Playstation or a Xbox.

But there are some problems which might occure. I finally gave up to install Linux on my desktop because my P4P800Deluxe mainboard has an onboard raidcontroller from Promise. The SATA raid wasn't detected by any new Linux distris. Even SUSE 10.0 wasn't able to recognise the raid. Horror!

Ok so far so good. I bought an externel USB and Firewire 250GB hdd. Tried to install Linux on it. Didn't work. When Linux bootet from the hdd it always stopped with some detection thing. Don't know why. So I can't run Linux on my desktop. I can't run Linux with my notebook.

I don't know what to do so maybe this could be the thread for all of us who want to use Linux and have problems with our hardware hindering us to install this fabby OS.

Also I hope that some "gurus" will post some tips and tricks like firewall or server things in here. Maybe you've a big video archive and want to use a server?

I'm excited if this thread will have a long lifetime :D

So long.
Take care
 
When you did internal HD install with Linux, what distros did you try and did you use dual-boot? Also, how does an install on an external disk work? Do you have to fiddle with LILO or GRUB to get it to work?

For your driver issue, I'd reccomend obtaining the latest copy of the Knoppix DVD from www.knopper.net, if the computer in question has a DVD drive. This should contain almost every driver used to recognize hardware for linux currently avaliable, so it may work with your setup. If it does, you should be able to track down the driver in question and use that.

I'm currently Linux-less, after my notebook with Gentoo (favorite distro I've used so far) died when the motherboard had an unfortunate encounter with an electric drill.
 
Linux in my opinion is not yet mature enough to be used as a desktop pc.
Perhaps as a workstation or a server, but there is another competing product that is much more user friendly: Windows.

I switched my server from Linux to Windows 2003 about a year ago. I'm still not regretting it. In fact it's running much better now than it ever was with Linux.
 
realisticperson
Linux in my opinion is not yet mature enough to be used as a desktop pc.
Perhaps as a workstation or a server, but there is another competing product that is much more user friendly: Windows.

I switched my server from Linux to Windows 2003 about a year ago. I'm still not regretting it. In fact it's running much better now than it ever was with Linux.
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If you truly believe so, you seriously fubar'ed something in your Linux installation..

Either that, or the rest of the world is wrong...
 
240Z
When you did internal HD install with Linux, what distros did you try and did you use dual-boot? Also, how does an install on an external disk work? Do you have to fiddle with LILO or GRUB to get it to work?
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At my parents I've the SATA raid in my desktop PC. Tried SUSE 10.0. So I couldn't go any further. Oh I forgot! I plugged an USB hard drive into the USB Port. So I never wanted to install Linux on the RAID. I totally mixed it up. Sorry.

My notebook harddrive should furthermore contain Windows. I tried to install Suse10.0 and Ubuntu Breeze on it but after every first boot the system is hanging because he can't find the harddrive or so. Can't remember the exactly words of the error message :(

240Z
For your driver issue, I'd reccomend obtaining the latest copy of the Knoppix DVD from www.knopper.net, if the computer in question has a DVD drive. This should contain almost every driver used to recognize hardware for linux currently avaliable, so it may work with your setup. If it does, you should be able to track down the driver in question and use that.

I'm currently Linux-less, after my notebook with Gentoo (favorite distro I've used so far) died when the motherboard had an unfortunate encounter with an electric drill.
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Yes I'll try Knoppix. If Linux would run from my USB harddrive I would be very happy. On my desktop PC I don't have to try it again because the RAID irritates Linux from installing to an USB..

On my notebook the bootloader freezes (Lilo) or boots until the harddrive is scanned again?? (don't know how the bootloader is loaded then). Oh and the bootloader is installed on the USB drive so the bootsector of the notebook drive is absolutely clean and I don't have to chance the systems at every start.

Is my USB drive the problem on my notebook? I guess so.
 

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