Robert Leftwich wrote:
I have an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, Athlon dual core 4800+ with 4GB ram + 4 SATA2 drives I need to setup as a server (basically postgres + apache/lighttpd). Ideally the 4 drives would be RAID (right now anything with redundancy would be acceptable). I've installed FreeBSD on it but it doesn't support the full 4GB ram, Ubuntu64 supports the ram (tested using the LiveCD), but fails when attempting to format the drives using any raid mode at all and fails to boot if installed in non-raid mode on one of the drives.
Has anyone successfully installed Suse on the same setup? If so, does the SMP kernel take full advantage of the dual core?
(Note that I don't care if sound or any other non-cli related h/w doesn't work, I just want a basic, reliable server that I can administer remotely).
Thanks
Robert
I have installed SUSE 10.0 on an ASUS/Nvidia nForce 4 A8N-SLI (it's not the premium), ASUS/Nvidia 7800GTX, 2GB RAM, 150GB SATA and everything works great. I am only running an Athalon 4000+, but it is my understanding that it will run a dual core just fine with the SMP kernel (make sure you have current BIOS). My only issue is with a PCI Netgear Wireless Ethernet card which doesn't have good driver support. So, I would say you should be good. Darren