[CentOS] How to select a motherboard

[David Fletcher]

I've only put CentOS onto a fanless mini ATX board with an Eden chip on it, 
which works fine. But I have installed Fedora onto three home built units 
with genuine Intel motherboards, model D865PERL, with Seagate SATA drives, 
which have given me no trouble at all.

You won't be able to buy this motherboard any more I don't think although 
there might still be some ten packs available.

My suggestion would be to look for something similar to this board but with 
the newer processor socket. If you go to intel.com and enter the model number 
you will get the full spec. there with BIOS updates and everything else you 
need to know.

Hope I've helped.

Dave Fletcher

On Thursday 15 Dec 2005 14:43, Todd Cary wrote:
> Not being familiar with chip sets and other factors that "hardware
> experts" understand, I am perplexed with the multitude of available
> motherboards.  Is there a Web site that can be of help or a "strategy"?
>
> My goal is to replace my motherboard with one that is Centos compatible
> and uses a Pentium 4 in the 2 MHz range.  As example, when I go to
> Mwave, I am presented with this list, but I really do not know what I
> should be looking for in the specs.
>
> http://www.mwave.com/mwave/ViewProducts.hmx?PID=MOTHERBOARDBUNDLES-ASUS&upd
>epts=BUNDLE2&DNAME=Motherboard+Bundles%2D+By+MB
>
> Any suggestions will be appreciated....
>
> Todd

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