Does RH 8.0 run on i845PE-based MoBo?

["Mark Pettifor" <markp damanifolds com>]

Hello all:

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but RH forums currently aren't searchable (or I'm too dumb to figure out how), so I'm subscribing to the list to ask my Q.

I bought a Dell Dimension 4550, with hopes of running Linux either dual-boot with Windows, or just Linux.  Thought I'd try one of the major distros, like Red Hat or Mandrake.  For kicks, I tried Mandrake 8.2, and got errors of the kind you'd get when trying to install Linux on hardware that's too new (wouldn't recognize the IDE controller, onboard video, etc.)  Running startx would give me the X pointer, then just hang.....

Has anyone had success with RH 8 on this particular machine, which uses the Intel 845PE chipset?  It's got a P4 processor.  It isn't listed on RH's HCL, but that doesn't mean that some intelligent, innovative, lucky person out there hasn't figured it out....

Thanks for any help you can give, or place you can point me to for the answer.

Cheers,

Mark Pettifor

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