[plug] distro differences - SuSE scores others fail

[WolfBite]

ALWAYS comes down to the hardware your running :)
   
  State of the art, with new chips, you ALMOST ALWAYS have to install a distro thats hot off the presses. asrock chips anyone? :))
   
  John
  

Gavin Chester <sales at ecosolutions.com.au> wrote:
  I've been converting my son across to Linux, and convinced him to dual
boot his XP machine. BTW: This post is related to a previous thread
involving 'Chris' and his/her trials with Linux. 

My son and I tried installing Mandriva 2006 first. No joy. Then tried
FC4. No joy. I really wanted him to use FC4 because I was also selling
him on the joys of K12LTSP, which is built on Fedora. I did some
research online and asked help on this list, and went away with several
tricks to try to get Fedora on his PC. Well, I tried every damn one of
those tricks and not a single one worked in this case. The sticking
point has always been his SATA drive. Simply not recognised properly by
Fedora or Mandriva.

In desperation tried SuSE 10.1. Not a problem, thank you very much.
Both SATA drive and extra PATA drive recognised, XP partition shrunk and
install completed without a _single_ hitch. Just shows that you've got
to be prepared to pick and choose your distro according to hardware
compatibility, doesn't it? ;-) 

Gavin.

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