[TriLUG] Recommend a motherboard for Centos 5.X

Scott Lambdin lopaki at gmail.com
Mon May 18 11:15:53 EDT 2009


Maybe check the Red Hat certified systems and see what is in them?

--Scott

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:54 AM, John Broome <jbroome at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bob Heath wrote:
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > I am trying to build a x86 type of machine using Centos 5.X.  I just had
> > to return a motherboard because it did not support Centos. :(  Have any
> > of you folks had any luck installing Centos 5.X on an x86 motherboard?
> > Could you recommend one for me to buy?
> >
> > I would like it to have pretty decent performance so I am going to
> > install a hardware RAID adapter.  I don't really want a soft Raid, but I
> > can disable it if necessary.  I would like to get a motherboard with two
> > PCI Express x16 PCI slots.
>
>
> It would probably help if you let us know what on the mobo centos didn't
> like.
>
> I haven't had any issues with loading linux on modern hardware.
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