Please help me be rid of Windows forever!

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:

>Okay, I'm about to take the plunge.
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>Up to now I've run RH on my home server (upgrading when FC2 comes out) and 
>Win2K as the main OS on the desktop, though I've multi-booted with RH.  
>Now the mother board is dying, and I've ordered new hardware (list below).  
>Supposedly Win2K doesn't work with SATA drives, and I'm unwilling to pay 
>to upgrade to WinXP, so now is the perfect time to move to FC (well, 
>perhaps it'd be better to wait until FC2...god, how I'm going to hate 
>having to upgrade my OS every six freaking months *sigh*)
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You choose... upgrading every six months or reinstalling every time that 
a update from m$ crashes the system or a virus/worm destroys it... Or 
you can keep multi-boot... (no windows version has out-of-the-box 
support with SATA , but it is possible to install it. I've done it once 
on w2k... mail me offlist if you want the gory details)

>Okay, here are my questions:
>
>1) Is SATA support working now for either chipset on that motherboard?  
>(Intel® ICH5/ICH5R Chipset)
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Probably yes. Unless you want to use the raid functions. I have a Nvidia 
based motherboard (sil 3112 chipset for SATA) and it works. I remmember 
seeing something about the ICH5/5R chipset. On linuxquestions.org there 
is a huge thread about linux+sata.. On one of the messages, someone say 
that FC2T2 works with this chipset.. Maybe someone else on this list can 
give a better answer about this.

>2) Are the other features of the board supported? (USB 2.0, IEEE1394, etc)
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USB 2.0 and IEEE1394 are supported out of the box. Dont know about the 
onboard audio and lan (probably the lan is supported. I remmember 
installing FC1 on a intel motherboard that had gigabit lan and it was 
detected and worked perfectly)

>4) My wife has two different digital cameras, a Kodak cheapy and a 1/2 
>decent Olympus.  What's the easiest software for her to use to get the 
>pictures off of the cameras?
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There's gphoto2.. Or , you can tweak updfstab to make it automatically 
mount the cameras when they are plugged (this only works if the camera 
is supported as usb-storage)


Good luck in your switch...

--
Pedro Macedo