Succesfull Dell 8400 linux installation reported
:lol:
Bob Berwick ( http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/.../msg00639.html )
has reported a succesful installation of linux on a Dell 8400 right out of the box:
Bob Berwick wrote:
"Red Hat released Update 3 of their RH Enterprise System Version 3 linux.
This Update 3 patched the ata_piix driver so that it *does* handle ICH6.
It can boot and install RH linux successfully on my Dimension 8400, properly recognizing
the drive partitions as sd* (rather than hd*).
'doze even dual boots."
Thus it should be possible to get it running on knoppix, etc.. too.
Will first need a backup and then give it a try.
Dell Dimension 8400 Windows + Linux dual boot
Installing SuSE Linux 9.2 + kernel 2.6.11 on a Dell Dimension 8400
Quote:
Originally Posted by rolflist
This confirms all notes above.
Based on notes that I took from http://www.homerengineeringcorp.net/mythtv/myth.html ,
I installed Suse 9.2+ kernel 2.6.11, but I am fairly confident that one can do the same with debian,
knoppix, redhat or fedora.
My system is a Dell Dimension 8400, BIOS A03, 2x SATA WD160GB, ATI X300.
There is on both disks a bootable Windows XP, both initially with 2 partitions:
partition 1 is a Dell Utility Fat16 file system, partition 2 is NTFS with Windows XP.
I added linux to disk 2. It boots from "Autoraid/AHCI". I can choose Grub to choose between XP and linux.
I have still the original Dell Windows XP installation.
The SATA part in .config (made with "make cloneconfig" and using the defaults suggested in "make xconfig") is
....
CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_AHCI is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SVW=m
CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_NV=m
....
Since it is not debian or knoppix, I will post the details of this installation at a different forum.
URL will follow here:
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportfor...essage.id=5859
