In addition to the other reply. I've recently installed FC3 on two K6 2 300Mhz machine with 192MB ram and 256MB. Tried to use a 3GB drive, but wasn't enough space for the workstartion install, so was able to get it with a 5GB drive. You might want to try switching the 40GB drive as the master, if not a problem You might also what to look at the bug report, it has an update that deals with hard drive setups. It includes an update to the disk setup. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138419 On 30 Dec 2004 at 16:46, Simon Slater wrote: > > Being a newbie to Linux, I am attempting to install Fedora from CD?s supplied with ht book ?Official > Fedora Companion? onto an AMD K6/200 with 256MB RAM; 1x2.1GB and 1x40GB (only 20GB of > which is recognized). I am encountering 2 error messages: > > * ?/dev/hdb is inconsistent ¦. Linux detected BIOS geometry incorrectly ¦ Using LBA is > recommended.? Both hard drives are in BIOS as LBA. > > > * ?You are trying to install on a machine which is not supported by this release of Fedora > Core? > > > These CD?s installed successfully onto a PII with 64MB RAM, but ran slowly. Are these > messages related, or is the AMD platform a problem? Where should I go from here? > > Simon > > +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu Number of Seti Units Returned: 15,189 Processing time: 29 years, 280 days, 8 hours, 49 minutes (Total Hours: 260,769)
