[TAG] Motherboard Drivers

[Bradley Chapman]

Sir,

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:29:49 +0100, glennys.clark at gforceimages.net
<glennys.clark at gforceimages.net> wrote:
> Hello Gang,
> 
> I have had some unfortunate experiences using dual sytems i.e Windows
> and Linux on the same Hard disk and two hard disks.
> 
> So nothing daunted I am about to buy an antec aria Micro ATX cube  with
> a Gigabyte GA-7VM400AM Motherboard and an AMD Duron CPU to make up a
> Linux Box.
> 
> On looking at the Tech data on the Gigabyte site would appear to be
> drivers for MS. O/S only .
> 
> The only way round this problem seems to be install Win98 then install
> Linux Debian 3 on the back of it, which is where I came in !.   I have
> looked at various Linux sites but cannot find any trace of drivers for
> this motherboard.  Is there anyway round this without installing WIN 98

Why would you need motherboard drivers in the first place? Just
install Linux and be done with it; those "drivers" are just databases
containing information used by the non-OS to configure the motherboard
for optimal performance. Linux does those things already.

> 
> Regards   Harold

Brad