ubuntu on homebuilt box

[Todd Slater]

Hi tonyB,

On 12/21/05, taeb <taeb at netins.net> wrote:
> Sorry for the slow follow-up.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 06:40:40PM -0500, Todd Slater wrote:
> >
> > I just built a new box. I don't think you need Windows; whenever I've
> > updated BIOS it has not been dependent on using Windows.
> >
> > I'm using a Lite-on cd/dvd burner (e/ide) and a SATA and an IDE hard
> > drive. No problems to report, everything is just working.
>
> Did you install ubuntu onto your sata drive or your ide drive?  If it
> was onto the sata drive, did you have to do anything special?  Someone
> else who was kind enough to respond to this thread -- sorry, don't have
> his name at hand -- suggested staying with ide and steering clear of
> sata.  I'd really like to use the sata drives in part because of the
> small cables versus the ribbon cables for air flow.  More importantly,
> though, I'd like not to buy hardware that won't work.  :)  I guess I'll
> hold off ordering until I can find out whether Ubuntu works with serial
> drives.  Obviously M$ and Apple have figured out how to use them. :)

Yes, I installed Ubuntu on the SATA drive. Everything was new on the
box, I added the IDE drive from an old computer after the fact. I
didn't have to do anything special to get it working. I actually
installed Windows first (daughter--games), then the Ubuntu installer
saw the partitions and free space and I went ahead with the
partitioning.

> > BTW, mine is a lower-end AMD Sempron (64-bit), not Intel.
>
> I decided to go with Intel.  Thought it might be safer for a first go.

I'm not anti-Intel, but it seems you might get more bang for your buck
with AMD; I wouldn't say one is "safer" than the other, just
different.

> > This is not a week old yet, so the above is, as they say, subject to change ;).
>
> Keep us advised. :)  I am reassured to know, however, that somebody is
> successfully running Ubuntu on a hmoebuilt box.

So far so good, just trying to figure out how to rip DVD's and combine
a bunch of VCD's to one DVD. I really like it, no comparison to the
old k62-500.

Todd