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Originally Posted by j.p.s
About 8 years ago my work PC got replaced with with one of those. It had a big honking heat sink. Of course the first thing I did was reparition to my liking and install debian. The install went well and was super fast. But it wouldn't boot. I assumed the HW was too new for debian, so I reinstalled from scratch, but with a 2.5" SATA SSD as /boot and the rest
on the PCIe SSD. That worked great until the next mandatory HW refresh.
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I remember the fun when SATA Mobo stopped having the legacy mode IDE/PATA. Earlier NT Windows install let you pause and insert a device driver, but not XP. Stupid. So I made a "slipstream" CD with the SATA drivers. Still have it, but I can't imagine needing it again now. It was also a problem with Server 2003 and HW RAID, but we installed Debian instead. We'd already tested an upgrade to 2003 on an NT 4.0 Server Enterprise machine (which unlike XP could access beyond 4G) with regular SATA as IDE in BIOS and found it too bloated, so that had Win2000 Server for a while till we dropped Windows Update Server Serivce.
Stupid dropping PAE in XP. No-one was going to buy Itaniums for 64 bit XP. The AMD 64 bit Windows was later.