Can A8V and AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 run Suse Linux 9.2? 9.3?

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Thinking of upgrading to that M/B and CPU, using one of those versions
of Suse Linux.

Anybody have experience with that combination? Does it work? Any
gotchas I should know about?

Thanks.
Larry
 
Thinking of upgrading to that M/B and CPU, using one of those versions
of Suse Linux.

Anybody have experience with that combination? Does it work? Any
gotchas I should know about?

Thanks.
Larry
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SUSE 10.0 is free for the download.

Try alt.os.linux.suse for answers.

Bill
 
SUSE 10.0 is free for the download.

Try alt.os.linux.suse for answers.
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I was hoping to get here the M/B perspective as well, Bill,
though, frankly, my main concern is whether SuSE 9.1 and 9.2 will work
on AMD dual-core CPUs.

Because I'm planning to buy the Asus A8V M/B, I figured somebody
in this newsgroup would have ith tthe same board with an AMD dual-core
CPU AND be running it with SuSE Linux.

Alas, responses have been, uh, light!

LSG
 
I was hoping to get here the M/B perspective as well, Bill,
though, frankly, my main concern is whether SuSE 9.1 and 9.2 will work
on AMD dual-core CPUs.

Because I'm planning to buy the Asus A8V M/B, I figured somebody
in this newsgroup would have ith tthe same board with an AMD dual-core
CPU AND be running it with SuSE Linux.

Alas, responses have been, uh, light!

LSG
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Thought they might be, hence my suggestion. Don't have an A8V board my
self, But if you can load the SMP kernel variant on it, it should
support dual core cpu's. I thought I saw some body in a.o.l.s answer
you in the affirmitive. Is there some reason not to go with SUSE 10.0?
Or 9.3 even?

Bill
 
Bill said:
Thought they might be, hence my suggestion. Don't have an A8V board my
self, But if you can load the SMP kernel variant on it, it should
support dual core cpu's. I thought I saw some body in a.o.l.s answer
you in the affirmitive. Is there some reason not to go with SUSE 10.0?
Or 9.3 even?

Bill
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Don't know if this helps, but here goes. I loaded SUSE 10 on an A8N-E with
a single core 3200 with no problem.
I assume any linux distro should automatically load the SMP kernel upon
detection of any x86 multiprocessor architecture regardless of whether it is
dual-core or two or more independent CPUs.
One note of caution, though, if your dual booting, SUSE likes to overwrite
the MBR and locks a bit, so to restore it you have to get a MBR tool and
overwrite all the bits in the MBR to zero then run "fdisk /mbr".

john
 
you in the affirmitive. Is there some reason not to go with SUSE 10.0?
Or 9.3 even?
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Just that I don't have v10.... yet.

Also, I read a reply at a.o.l.s. wrong. I thought it said
2.6.1<dot>3.x. Nope. That was 2.6.13.x. So 9.2 probably won't work.

Thanks all.
Larry
 
Lawrence Gould said:
Just that I don't have v10.... yet.

Also, I read a reply at a.o.l.s. wrong. I thought it said
2.6.1<dot>3.x. Nope. That was 2.6.13.x. So 9.2 probably won't work.

Thanks all.
Larry
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SUSE 10 is a free download.

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