Hi Dinesh,

Hi,

My Pentium 4 system is officially declared dead. I wish to replace it with a Core 2 Duo system. I wanted to know which motherboards are compatible with Linux. I would like to go in for a genuine Intel motherboard. The processor I am thinking of is Intel Core 2 Duo E6300/6400/6600/6700. I dont know which motherboard is most compatible with Linux ( FC5/6 ) specifically.

The only Intel boards I could find were:

• DG965RYCK
• DG965WHMKR

What would be the cost of the entire system with 512MB / 1GB of DDR2 RAM?

My search on the Intel site came up with this ( Three matching boards for my requirements ):

http://indigo.intel.com/mbsg/compare.aspx?orgID=16&aryAttrID=243%2c247%2...

Please let me know of the cost and place where I can get it at the cheapest. Most importantly I need the board to work out of the box with Linux :)

ciao!

( A special cry of help to Rony!! :) )

Last month I got myself a Core 2 Duo E6600 (Rs. 16,500/-) with a DG965RY mobo (Rs. 7,300/-) and 1 GB DDR2-533 RAM (Rs. 4,750/-). All from Lamington Road.

This motherboard has 1 IDE and 4 SATA ports. The IDE is powered by the Marvell PATA chipset which is not yet very well supported in the Linux world so when you connect a CD/DVD drive here, the installation doesn't find the installation CD/DVD. I've tried Knoppix 5.0.1, Ubuntu 6.06 and Suse 10.1 64-bit.

The net suggests booting by giving the all-generic-ide option to the kernel but I have not been successful in getting it to recognize my DVD yet. It requires a kernel in which the generic ide driver is built-in rather than a module and I haven't checked if that's the case with the distros I've tried.

I'll probably get a SATA harddisk so I can use the DVD on a SATA port using my SATA to PATA adapter and bypass this entire hassle.

Haven't gone further than this, but searching the net doesn't show up any other googlies for this board with Linux.

Regards, Rajesh