Folks
A few problems; I'm not sure they're independent.
During initial bootstrap, I see the messages
ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP
and later
abpart: Unsupported Intel chipset (device id 1237)
And the Ethernet controller doesn't work (with a message "check cable")
The machine in question is Dell Workstation 400 MT The Ethernet "lights" are showing on both ends of the connection.
When FC1 was installed, I had to turn kudzu off because it screwed up the ethernet controller (documented in the archives), so I tried that approach in FC2 as well, but it doesn't help.
It has Fedora core 2 loaded from CDROM -- no updates yet because the ethernet controller isn't responding.
Any clues?
David