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 <
danceswithcrows@usa.net>wrote:
> From: eculbert <eculbert@yahoo.com>
> > 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.
>
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