I made the edits to the parts-list. Let me know if any slipped by me. Yes, on the floppy drive. I'll be using XP Pro on one dedicated HDD until such time as I'm confident enough to replace it with Linux. Despite a ton of Google searches, and asking questions on four or five forums, I'm unable to find conclusive answer as to whether or not a regular floppy drive is required, and whether or not USB FDD will do absolutely everything one on a floppy connector can. Only conclusive info is that there are certain possible situations in which XP Pro does requires a floppy drive. I've decided to err on side of caution and include one.mikeb wrote:around the pups you mentioned eide / sata (libata) was a bit messed up so ended up with 2 kernels ...one to support each. I don't believe eide would affect you anyway as thats earlier than the ide you probably mean. As it happens lucid and perhaps others seem to be no problem in this respect.
OS dependant...those things that need a driver basically...the psus do not and probably ok to onit mouse keyboard since they are generic types, the physical construction of the enclosure and fans, coolers...
Are you really including floppy drives?
mike
So are you saying I should use SATA DVD burner & HDD to install 4.2.1? Will the mere presence of the IDE/EIDE burner & HDD have adverse effect? If I can determine that none of the other distro releases require IDE/EIDE, I'm willing to ditch it, as it's there for no other reason.