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[jpennington@xxxxxxxxx (Jon Pennington)]

Yatsen Ng <yatsen.ng@xxxxxxxxx> said: 

> Hi there,
> 
> I bought a new pc equiped with an AMD Athlon and I just wanted to know if
> there's anything I need to take into account when I install Linux. There's a
> special bootdisk for Athlon systems on the SuSE site, am I correct? I
> understand that this is necessary only if an older kernel is used. Which
> kernel is that? I've got SuSE 6.2 (with kernel 2.2.10).

IIRC, 6.2 required a boot disk, 6.3 does not.  If you `roll your own' kernel
from source, don't forget to enable MTRR in the Processor Type and Features
section, and I would recommend compiling the kernel for a TSC/K6 family CPU. 
There's some *really*cool* stuff coming down the pike for the Athlons in 2.4,
but that's a few months away :).  I'm *very* satisfied with the performance of
my Athlon 550 on an MSI motherboard; my only wish was that I wasn't saddled
with this crappy ATi AGP card...


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