Hi,

What did you ask for? You could have asked others before finalazing

your config. 101 GGC is old technology now so I doubt he will take it back. Anyway you can always try. Otherwise, it is a good board and uses ATI Radeon chipsets so graphics is good. In your bois you can share more RAM for better graphics. You are better off than the older 845 chipsets and pin processors. Your processor is pinless and board supports SATA HDDs.

Problem was that I had a config from a family friend when we were about to order.At the time,mobo and fatherboard was equivalent to me(ie i knew nothing about h/w).I learnt so much in these short two months coz i found out it was needed to install and use and learn linux proper.At the time,I just added what i felt was needed and subtracted what was not leaving what I didn't know about untouched for eg:i added 512 MB RAM,80 GB HDD in place of their(family friend's) 256MB RAM,40 GB HDD and subtracted LCD monitor and substituted it with plain CRT. So they had 101 board,i never touched it coz i didn't know anything about it.We planned to buy a P4 only but afterwards my friend(the same one who told me there's not much diff b/w C2D and P-D)told me a dual core is better so i subtracted P4 and added C2D.Thereseller got confused b/w C2D and P-D dual core and might have thought that since I want 101 board and dual core,it matches..ie 101 board supports P4,P4 HT and P-D dual core and sold me this....now i realize that i should have changed the mobo to corresponding board too ...but again i knew nothing about h/w...

Mine is 101GGC and since i have absolutely NO experience with Linux,i would

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like to get a normal distro first and gain some knowledge before experimenting.sorry :-(

Use Ubuntu 6.10 as it boots live and then gives an 'install' icon on the live desktop itself. Use your last windows partition eg. F: or E: When you come to the disk setup part, choose 'Manual Install'. Delete your last partition so that it converts into Free space. From that total free space, subtract 2 GB and create a new partition of that subtracted size. Use Ext3 or Reizerfs as your partition type (file system). Label it as a slash '/'. Convert the balance free space into a swap partition. Then let the installation proceed further. Don't touch partition 1 as it is your C: drive.

but ubuntu doesn't support 101 as intel's site says: http://www.intel.com/cd/channel/reseller/asmo-na/eng/products/linux/feature/... Regards, Easwar sorry for the long mail.... :-P.Anyways,is it important for a newbie to attend the SELF conference?and the Feb GNU/Linux user's meet?what is it?