On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 06:05:51PM -0000, Thad Floryan wrote:
> --- In linux@yahoogroups.com, "Allen D. Tate" <atate@...> wrote:
> > [...]
> > FWIW, I've been messing with CentOS 5.2 and I'm liking it very much.
> > I've been messing with Ubuntu but CentOS so far seems to be working a
> > bit better. http://www.centos.org/
>
> Be aware the CentOS 5.2 Live CD won't boot on a system with SATA drives.
> I had to file a bugzilla about that and last I read (November 27, 2008)
> it hasn't been fixed yet.

That's interesting, I had no trouble installing the normal CD on SATA.

My problem was with the Aspire One's realtek (wired) NIC. I have that
detailed on the CentOS wiki. That is the type of problem one can run
into on CentOS, hardware support, though it's usually fixable.


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