I would just install Redhat. And then recompile your kernel to have support
for NForce2.

"roadster3043" wrote in message
news:Xns948F32E5B3322plsseeaddrmysig@63.223.5.95.. .
> Greetings.
>
> Can you recommend me a good, free linux distro which has good NForce2
> chipset support?
>
> System:
> Asus A7N8X Deluxe Nforce2 chipset
> 524MB RAM
> 20 and 40 GB HDDs
> Pioneer DVR-A06U
> Samsung CD-ROM
> HP 672C DeskJet
> HP 4470c ScanJet
>
>
> --
>
> Take care.
>
> roadster3043
>

roadster3043 wrote in message news:...
> Greetings.
>
> Can you recommend me a good, free linux distro which has good NForce2
> chipset support?
>
> System:
> Asus A7N8X Deluxe Nforce2 chipset
> 524MB RAM
> 20 and 40 GB HDDs
> Pioneer DVR-A06U
> Samsung CD-ROM
> HP 672C DeskJet
> HP 4470c ScanJet

Same mobo as me. I'm running Slackware. Yummy vanilla kernel.

comeand@kissmyfatarse.com (Mattias Honrendgard) wrote in
news:dd394218.0402161700.51eac560@posting.google.c om:

> roadster3043 wrote in message
> news:...
>> Greetings.
>>
>> Can you recommend me a good, free linux distro which has good
>> NForce2 chipset support?
>>
>> System:
>> Asus A7N8X Deluxe Nforce2 chipset
>> 524MB RAM
>> 20 and 40 GB HDDs
>> Pioneer DVR-A06U
>> Samsung CD-ROM
>> HP 672C DeskJet
>> HP 4470c ScanJet
>
> Same mobo as me. I'm running Slackware. Yummy vanilla kernel.
>

Is Slackware too difficult to set up? I mean, I have never seen a good
and simple howto on compiling kernels.


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Take care.

roadster3043

roadster3043 wrote in message news:...
> comeand@kissmyfatarse.com (Mattias Honrendgard) wrote in
> news:dd394218.0402161700.51eac560@posting.google.c om:
>
> > roadster3043 wrote in message
> > news:...
> >> Greetings.
> >>
> >> Can you recommend me a good, free linux distro which has good
> >> NForce2 chipset support?
> >>
> >> System:
> >> Asus A7N8X Deluxe Nforce2 chipset
> >> 524MB RAM
> >> 20 and 40 GB HDDs
> >> Pioneer DVR-A06U
> >> Samsung CD-ROM
> >> HP 672C DeskJet
> >> HP 4470c ScanJet
> >
> > Same mobo as me. I'm running Slackware. Yummy vanilla kernel.
> >
>
> Is Slackware too difficult to set up? I mean, I have never seen a good
> and simple howto on compiling kernels.


The whole Slackware philosophy is "Keep it Simple", so (oddly enough)
its a doddle to setup. Such a long time ago since I did it, but I just
followed the stuff on the nvidia site:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261