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Can A8V and AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 run Suse Linux 9.2? 9.3?

 
 
Lawrence Gould
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      8th Dec 2005
Thinking of upgrading to that M/B and CPU, using one of those versions
of Suse Linux.

Anybody have experience with that combination? Does it work? Any
gotchas I should know about?

Thanks.
Larry


 
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Bill
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      8th Dec 2005
In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> Thinking of upgrading to that M/B and CPU, using one of those versions
> of Suse Linux.
>
> Anybody have experience with that combination? Does it work? Any
> gotchas I should know about?
>
> Thanks.
> Larry
>
>
>


SUSE 10.0 is free for the download.

Try alt.os.linux.suse for answers.

Bill
 
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Lawrence Gould
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      9th Dec 2005
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:04:02 -0800, Bill
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
>(E-Mail Removed) says...
>> Thinking of upgrading to that M/B and CPU, using one of those versions
>> of Suse Linux.
>>


>
> SUSE 10.0 is free for the download.
>
> Try alt.os.linux.suse for answers.
>


I was hoping to get here the M/B perspective as well, Bill,
though, frankly, my main concern is whether SuSE 9.1 and 9.2 will work
on AMD dual-core CPUs.

Because I'm planning to buy the Asus A8V M/B, I figured somebody
in this newsgroup would have ith tthe same board with an AMD dual-core
CPU AND be running it with SuSE Linux.

Alas, responses have been, uh, light!

LSG



 
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      10th Dec 2005
In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:04:02 -0800, Bill
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
> >(E-Mail Removed) says...
> >> Thinking of upgrading to that M/B and CPU, using one of those versions
> >> of Suse Linux.
> >>

>
> >
> > SUSE 10.0 is free for the download.
> >
> > Try alt.os.linux.suse for answers.
> >

>
> I was hoping to get here the M/B perspective as well, Bill,
> though, frankly, my main concern is whether SuSE 9.1 and 9.2 will work
> on AMD dual-core CPUs.
>
> Because I'm planning to buy the Asus A8V M/B, I figured somebody
> in this newsgroup would have ith tthe same board with an AMD dual-core
> CPU AND be running it with SuSE Linux.
>
> Alas, responses have been, uh, light!
>
> LSG
>
>
>
>


Thought they might be, hence my suggestion. Don't have an A8V board my
self, But if you can load the SMP kernel variant on it, it should
support dual core cpu's. I thought I saw some body in a.o.l.s answer
you in the affirmitive. Is there some reason not to go with SUSE 10.0?
Or 9.3 even?

Bill
 
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      10th Dec 2005

"Bill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
> (E-Mail Removed) says...
>> On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:04:02 -0800, Bill
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>> >In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
>> >(E-Mail Removed) says...
>> >> Thinking of upgrading to that M/B and CPU, using one of those versions
>> >> of Suse Linux.
>> >>

>>
>> >
>> > SUSE 10.0 is free for the download.
>> >
>> > Try alt.os.linux.suse for answers.
>> >

>>
>> I was hoping to get here the M/B perspective as well, Bill,
>> though, frankly, my main concern is whether SuSE 9.1 and 9.2 will work
>> on AMD dual-core CPUs.
>>
>> Because I'm planning to buy the Asus A8V M/B, I figured somebody
>> in this newsgroup would have ith tthe same board with an AMD dual-core
>> CPU AND be running it with SuSE Linux.
>>
>> Alas, responses have been, uh, light!
>>
>> LSG
>>
>>
>>
>>

>
> Thought they might be, hence my suggestion. Don't have an A8V board my
> self, But if you can load the SMP kernel variant on it, it should
> support dual core cpu's. I thought I saw some body in a.o.l.s answer
> you in the affirmitive. Is there some reason not to go with SUSE 10.0?
> Or 9.3 even?
>
> Bill


Don't know if this helps, but here goes. I loaded SUSE 10 on an A8N-E with
a single core 3200 with no problem.
I assume any linux distro should automatically load the SMP kernel upon
detection of any x86 multiprocessor architecture regardless of whether it is
dual-core or two or more independent CPUs.
One note of caution, though, if your dual booting, SUSE likes to overwrite
the MBR and locks a bit, so to restore it you have to get a MBR tool and
overwrite all the bits in the MBR to zero then run "fdisk /mbr".

john


 
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      10th Dec 2005
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 17:54:58 -0800, Bill
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
>(E-Mail Removed) says...
>> On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:04:02 -0800, Bill
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>> >In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
>> >(E-Mail Removed) says...
>> >> Thinking of upgrading to that M/B and CPU, using one of those versions
>> >> of Suse Linux.
>> >>


>>I thought I saw some body in a.o.l.s answer

>you in the affirmitive. Is there some reason not to go with SUSE 10.0?
>Or 9.3 even?
>


Just that I don't have v10.... yet.

Also, I read a reply at a.o.l.s. wrong. I thought it said
2.6.1<dot>3.x. Nope. That was 2.6.13.x. So 9.2 probably won't work.

Thanks all.
Larry

 
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"Lawrence Gould" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 17:54:58 -0800, Bill
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
>>(E-Mail Removed) says...
>>> On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:04:02 -0800, Bill
>>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>>
>>> >In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
>>> >(E-Mail Removed) says...
>>> >> Thinking of upgrading to that M/B and CPU, using one of those
>>> >> versions
>>> >> of Suse Linux.
>>> >>

>
>>>I thought I saw some body in a.o.l.s answer

>>you in the affirmitive. Is there some reason not to go with SUSE 10.0?
>>Or 9.3 even?
>>

>
> Just that I don't have v10.... yet.
>
> Also, I read a reply at a.o.l.s. wrong. I thought it said
> 2.6.1<dot>3.x. Nope. That was 2.6.13.x. So 9.2 probably won't work.
>
> Thanks all.
> Larry
>

SUSE 10 is a free download.

name


 
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