[CentOS] HW issue during instalaltion

MHR mhullrich at gmail.com
Tue Nov 18 18:03:31 UTC 2008


On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Phil Schaffner
<Philip.R.Schaffner at nasa.gov> wrote:
>
> Same here; however, on a similar-but-different Shuttle box I bought for my
> son recently the only Linux I could get to install was the Ubuntu Intrepid
> Ibex beta (release version 8.10 is now out).  Tried several other recent
> Linux versions including CentOS 5, Fedora 9 (haven't tried 10 pre-release
> yet), OpenSuse, PClinuxOS, Knoppix, and Ubuntu Hardy. None could see the
> disk.  Windoze XP worked.  :-(
>
> An enterprise Linux should never be expected to support the latest hardware.
>  Maybe CentOS 5.3 or 6 when they hit the e-street???  Until then, you may
> well be stuck with some more bleeding-edge release.
>

That's true, but, still, if XP can handle it, it seems as though
CentOS 5, which is six years newer than XP, should be able to handle
it....

OTTOMH....

mhr



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