Yatsen Ng 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... -- 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/