I've got an athlon 1.1 system (obviously a few years old), and I think that the ASUS motherboard is on the way out.
I've use SuSE 9.3.
Is there anything in the way of motherboards that I should really avoid?
Is there any performance (or other) problem if I have one HD on the IDE bus and a new one on SATA? Would that arrangement confuse YaST?
If I was GOING to go with one drive on each interface (haven't tried it yet, haven't got the board yet... just asking), is there a preferred distribution of the filesystem? That is, between two such drives, where should /root, /var, /usr, /home and swap go? Or would it make no difference? I have to go along with the other person who replied to your message. Stay away from ASUS. Their support for Linux doesn't exist. In fact, when one tells a support person he is using Linux, from that moment on the rep is
trying to get off the phone. Downright rude. As far as the board is concerned, I haven't had my ONE and only ASUS board since my 32 bit days, but I recall never getting the board to see the correct processor speed, despite the supposed support for the processor. The most annoying part was that the computer froze up at times that looked to be completely random, requiring a hard reset. I was always doing a reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on the drives. Computers can lock up for a lot of reasons, but my problem disappeared the day I trashed the ASUS board and installed a Gigabyte. Since then I've moved to 64 bits on two desktops, Gigabyte boards, and nary a problem. -- The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything. -- Laurence J. Peter