[SLE] Athlon - Aaaaaarrggggghhhhh
Hi Guys I splashed out on an Athlon today, dashed home to build it then tried to install Suse, and you can guess. Anyway I looked in the Suse archives, found reference to the Athlon boot disk, downloaded the file ( 1 hour ten minutes @ 9600). It's too big to fit on a stiffy ( 1,474, 560 bytes), and it doesn't have an extension. Is this right ?? Alternatively how could I burn this file onto a CD (without an extension) and use it to boot up and do a fresh install. Please bear in mind that this will all be done from W98 and it's burning my butt. Please help while I've got hair and enthusiasm left. Thanks Mark Annandale -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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From: Mark Annandale
Hi Guys
I splashed out on an Athlon today, dashed home to build it then tried to install Suse, and you can guess.
Guess what? I heard those chips where fast, what model did you get?
Anyway I looked in the Suse archives, found reference to the Athlon boot disk, downloaded the file ( 1 hour ten minutes @ 9600).
Ouch!
It's too big to fit on a stiffy ( 1,474, 560 bytes), and it doesn't have
an
extension. Is this right ??
It should fit, SuSE won't make a disk that won't fit, trust them. You will probably have to use rawrite.exe (in DOS or Windows) or dd (in Linux or Unix) to write the 'raw' image file to the floppy disk. Make sure you have a prefect floppy, if the floppy is even messed up in the smallest way it causes massive amount of head aches
Alternatively how could I burn this file onto a CD (without an extension) and use it to boot up and do a fresh install. Please bear in mind that
this
will all be done from W98 and it's burning my butt.
I would try using rawrite in Win98 first, you don't want to waste an entire 650 Meg $2.50 CD on a 1.4 meg image file. Try rawrite, it should be on the first SuSE CD-ROM under a directory called 'tools', 'dostools', 'dos', 'utils', something like that, I forget at the moment
Please help while I've got hair and enthusiasm left.
Do the Atlhons need a special patch for them to work in Linux? I am think about getting one, but don't know if it is worth it. What type of RAM do you need for it to work with the K7 CPU's? anyways, try rawrite you might be suprise. After you have the raw image on disk, stick it in, hit the reset button, and it should boot directly from floppy. Hope that helps, Jack
Thanks
Mark Annandale
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Hi Guys Firstly thanks to Jack and Eilert for their prompt response. You were right, once I had wiped the blood out of my eyes (from banging my head on the wall), I realised that rawrite was needed. Throwback to the old RH 5xx days when we had to create boot disks from images on the CD. I must confess, this booting from CD's is much easier. Thanks again Mark -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
ive never had a kernel not work on them, as long as the MTRR support was compiled in. unsure what the oldest kernel i've tried was, prolly 2.2.10...13 and 14 work as long as the MTRR is there (which it is in 6.3) -- ======================================================================== Rocky McGaugh Atipa Linux Solutions Linux Systems Engineer www.atipa.com rocky@smluc.org rmcgaugh@atipa.com ======================================================================== On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Jack Barnett wrote:
Do the Atlhons need a special patch for them to work in Linux? I am think about getting one, but don't know if it is worth it. What type of RAM do you need for it to work with the K7 CPU's?
anyways, try rawrite you might be suprise. After you have the raw image on disk, stick it in, hit the reset button, and it should boot directly from floppy.
Hope that helps,
Jack
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* Jack Barnett (jbarnett@axil.netmate.com) [20000125 18:40]:
Do the Atlhons need a special patch for them to work in Linux?
for 2.2.10, you do need a different kernel. The reason is that a 2.2.10 uses AMD mtrr configuration and this fails miserably as the K7 has fully Intel compatible mtrr registers. The 2.2.13 kernels on 6.3 all have that fix so no special boot disk is needed for the Athlon.
I am think about getting one, but don't know if it is worth it.
It's worth every dime you spend on it :)
What type of RAM do you need for it to work with the K7 CPU's? All mobo's I know work with normal SDRAM.
Philipp
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Philipp Thomas
It'll fit, you need to dd it on to the floppy. Mark Annandale wrote:
Hi Guys
I splashed out on an Athlon today, dashed home to build it then tried to install Suse, and you can guess.
Anyway I looked in the Suse archives, found reference to the Athlon boot disk, downloaded the file ( 1 hour ten minutes @ 9600).
It's too big to fit on a stiffy ( 1,474, 560 bytes), and it doesn't have an extension. Is this right ??
Alternatively how could I burn this file onto a CD (without an extension) and use it to boot up and do a fresh install. Please bear in mind that this will all be done from W98 and it's burning my butt.
Please help while I've got hair and enthusiasm left.
Thanks
Mark Annandale
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