[clug-talk] Best distro for

[Travis Rousseau]

Niels Voll wrote:

> * if I recall correctly, for some distro (I think it was SuSE 9.x), I 
> had troubles running the installer when the screen resolution was more 
> than 1024x768.. Once I brought it down to that size, it seemed to 
> start working, and I could change the resolution after the install.

This was not the problem.

>
> * some distro(s) didn't boot for me when I had a certain file system 
> (may have been ReiserFS based software RAID 0 already sitting on hard 
> disk. (It may have been one or more of the Debian offshoots (Ubuntu 
> and/or Mepis, which complained about that).

This might have been the problem with Suse and debian.

>
>
> * you can get Promise RAID drivers to load of CD ROM in SuSE and 
> Fedora (rather than Floppy) - HOWEVER: the Promise RAID drivers only 
> seem to work with very specific versions of SuSE and Red Hat. You may 
> be better off, to stay with software RAID on your hardware. The Linux 
> support of Promise has been a long standing battle;  too bad, since 
> their hardware is often easier / cheaper to get.
>
The thing is i need a floppy drive to setup the hardware raid. the 
software raid is working with the current fedora install.


Travis R.