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Chapter 2. Hardware Information and System Requirements Tables

Click on the Device Manager button. You will then see a graphical representation of your com 

puter's hardware configuration. Make sure the View devices by type radio button is selected.

At this point, you can either double click on the icons or single click on the plus sign + to look at each

entry in more detail. Look under the following icons for more information:

Figure 2 5. Windows 2000 System Properties

Disk drives   the type (IDE or SCSI) of hard drive will be found here. (IDE drives will normally

include the word "IDE," while SCSI drives will not.)

Hard disk controllers   information about your hard drive controller.

CDROM   information about any CD ROM drives connected to your computer.

Mouse   the type of mouse present on your computer.

Display adapters   if you are interested in running the X Window System, you should write down

the information you find here.

Sound, video and game controllers   if your computer has sound capabilities, you will find more

information about them here.

Network adapters   information on your computer's network card (if you have one).

SCSI controllers   if your computer uses SCSI peripherals, you will find additional information

on the SCSI controller here.

This method is not a complete substitute for opening your computer's case and physically examining

each component. However, in many cases it can provide sufficient information to continue with the

installation.

2.2. Recording Your System's Hardware

Enter information about your system in the table provided as a handy reference to help make your

Red Hat Linux installation go more smoothly.

hard drive(s): type, label,

size; ex: IDE hda=1.2 GB