Linked by Kristofer Jarl on Fri 23rd Jul 2004 05:38 UTC
The smell of newly purchased stuff... So, there I was, Hauppauge WinTV board in hand, Mandrake 10 installed and ready to rock! Little did I expect that it would come to this. But first things first. 
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"It's hard when your video card isn't supported and cannot proceed to install until you get an older model that will work. It's hard when the drivers for your SATA interface are not included. It's hard when you have dial-up and it takes you three days get all the updates downloaded and installed just so you can use your system on the interent without getting a worm. It's hard when your drivers won't stay put and disappear every reboot. You getting my drift?"
Sure, when you try to install a 4 year old OS with newer hardware, it doesn't have the drivers on the CD. Big freaking surprise there. For that matter you could probably get an 802.11b NIC from the store and ahem borrow a neighbor's connection for long enough to download new drivers, if you were really desparate.
Windows XP Pro (as a newer OS) would have done a better job of supporting your newer hardware but even then... I don't think SATA was out when XP was released, or if it was I don't think it was very popular, so you might be out of luck there.