[ale] H/W Q: Fedora-C3 and Dell's USB keyboard & mouse, SATA drives

[Jay Finch]

Hi Mills!

I have FC3 installed on a Dell Poweredge SC420 (which is set up for 2 80GB
SATA drives in a RAID-1 array) and it's working like a charm.  (Setting up
the RAID was fun, especially since I'd never done that before.)  But I'm
using it as my primary mailserver, and had no problems with FC3
recognizing and configuring the the SATA drives.

I can't speak to the USB Mouse/Keyboard however.

Hope that helps!
Jay

> ALErs -
>
> I want to install Linux on a current Dell _Optiplex_G280_ box, but haven't
> been successful with RH-7.3, Slackware-10.1, nor Knoppix-3.3. Even when I
> swapped out the SATA hard-drive with IDE the and USB mouse with PS-2, at
> some point [XFree86?] they all failed to see the USB keyboard. It looked
> like a losing battle so I stopped beating on it, dragged out a
> dumpster-dive
> Gateway, and stumbled forward(?) with RH-7.3.
>
> Should I expect Fedora/Core-3 to install on my current Dell (SATA, USB)
> hardware configuration? If not, what distribution might work?
>
> Where should I have looked to answer these questions?
>
> TIA.
>  - Mills
>
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