5.1 for production systems

The Hermit Hacker scrappy at hub.org
Fri Jun 20 21:28:29 PDT 2003


On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Matthias Buelow wrote:

> If you can get it to boot... 5.x seems to be a bit picky about what
> machines it can be booted on.  For example, on our HP Netserver LH Pro,
> that's a no-go (4.x installed fine, though).  I've heard other reports,
> especially notebooks, where installing 5.x was still a bit on the rough
> edge (or plainly not working.)

Right now, I have it running on an old Sony VAIO notebook, a Dual Athlon
server, and a Dual PIII (Tyan Mobo) ... haven't experienced any problems
with any of them, but there is nothing running really heavy on either of
them all, mostly 'desktop' stuff ...



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