On November 24, 2003 10:22 am, Rick Bilonick, Rick Bilonick <rab@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I was able to get my hands on an old Compaq Deskpro (166mhz Pentium, > 1.6gm hard drive, 64mb of memory with cdrom). So I > I downloaded and burned Fedora Core 1. The install ... er, did you *read* the Release Notes on Fedora Core? "Hardware Requirements The following information represents the minimum hardware requirements necessary to successfully install Fedora Core 1: ... # Recommended for text-mode: 200 MHz Pentium-class or better # Recommended for graphical: 400 MHz Pentium II or better ... Memory: * Minimum for text-mode: 64MB * Minimum for graphical: 192MB * Recommended for graphical: 256MB ... once upon a time, back in the days of DOS, this used to be called RTFM --> the "readme.txt" or "readme.1st". cheers, Elton ;-) -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_4504.html "You only live once: let's make life BETTER for each other." LINUX User #193975 [AMD ATHLON CPU] ICQ #149608718.