[TriLUG] Recommend a motherboard for Centos 5.X

[Bill Whiting]

I have CentOS 5 running well on a Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5, and RHEL5 
running on a GA-MA78G-DS3H.
These are both AMD motherboards.  One issue I had with the RHEL5 board 
was that the install did not setup the internal network adapter when I 
did the install with no network connected.  I re-installed to 
re-configure the disk partitions after connecting the network and then 
the install added the drivers for the internal interface.

//Bill
> 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.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks - Bob Heath
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