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Buz Davis wrote:
Rick Stevens wrote: >Have you tried looking at the other consoles (ALT-F2, ALT-F3, ALT-F4) to >see if there's some specific error when it croaks?Thanks for the suggestion, Rick. I was unaware of these. I have checked them and found messages to the effect that the processor is not supported. These actually referenced a processor later than my K6.I then did some googling and found that apparently the first release ofFedora 8 did have a problem with AMD processors. This was apparently fixed in what some sites refer to as "respins", but they don't seem to be available at this time.
Oh, that may be an issue. F8 is dead (F10 forced EOL on F8, F11 forced EOL on F8, F12 will force EOL on F10, etc., etc.). Fedoraunity.org was the home of the respins, but I don't know if there's any F8 respins left there.
I went ahead and ordered a copy of CentOS and am mainly counting on that. However I also bought an intel-based pentium system at the local NearlyNew store thinking that perhaps I could install Fedora 8 on that. I had to blow away a broken XP system (I now have perhaps the hottest MS-DOS box around) and I am getting farther into the install before problems crop up, but so far there have been problems. The CDs pass the media test, but they always seem to fail somewhere in the install itself with "probably invalid media". Perhaps the CD drive needs cleaning, or perhaps the hard disk is flakey - I just haven't had a chance to check in any detail.
It's not uncommon for the CD tests to fail even if the media is fine. That issue is better addressed in later Fedora releases. If you turn off DMA during the install (appending "nodma" to the command line), the test will probably pass, but the install will be slow and anaconda will add "nodma" to the boot command in grub. Easy enough to remove it, but there it is.
I haven't totally given up on F 8 but as I said I am waiting for CentOS(which sounds like the system for me - I want something reasonably up-to-date but not necessarily leading-edge).
F11 is pretty stable, but it orphans your processor, I think. Since F9,only 586 and later processors are supported. You gotta join the 21st century at some point, I guess.
Is it possible to copy the CD images to another computer on the networkand then start the install from the target machine referencing the network as a source for the images ? I do have a network, but nothing fancy (though I think the "new" pentium computer has a cdrw drive).
Yes, it's called a "network install". There are a couple of ways to do it...one is to put the .iso image on a server somewhere and access it via HTTP. Another is to have the _files_ inside the .iso extracted to a specific directory on the server, then share that directory via NFS.
Man, I hope you don't live anywhere near those brush fires! I know there are lots of folks hurting and I hope you aren't among them!
I don't, but my mother does. Not too close (about five miles, one freeway and several canyons away), but close enough where the smoke is a problem (she's 80). I used to work at JPL in my younger days and I know many folk who live in LC/F (La Canada/Flintridge) and I'm worried about them. That's the price you pay for living in the hills, unfortunately. I live near the beach, so the price I pay is in dollars. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - The light at the end of the tunnel is really an oncoming train. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: unsubscribe