I'm sure I can find you a pata/ata drive if you can't use the sata drive Matt offered. Try having someone with a Windows machine reformat those bad USB sticks. I have recovered several that way. I agree the 9500 card should be fine though I'm not sure what advantage it would have for your needs over any on-board video. Larry On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Matt Graham wrote: > From: eculbert > > Anyone used [a Galaxy Geforce 9500GT]? Hopefully it works with a > > live cd. Building up a new system w/o onboard video. Going to install > > and try today..just curious if it is an ok board > > The vast majority of nVidia cards will Just Work, in 2D with the "nv" > module, > or 3D with the evil binary-only nvidia module. Haven't used that model, > but > I've had no problems with any nVidia card since 2000. The live CD will > probably use "nv", which should be totally fine for the non-3D things you > said > you wanted to do. > > > Going to run 'hd-less' till at least 1/8, so live here we go! > > I've got a 250G SATA disk that isn't doing anything at all. Ran "dd > if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdc bs=64k ; dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=64k" 3 > times on it, natch. > > -- > Matt G / Dances With Crows > The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ > There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. - Thomas Jefferson