During the last 2 weeks I have had a really exasperating (but educational experience) in trying to install FC2, and I seek comments. At home I have a test machine at home which has a PII processor with 128M Ram which runs at 400 MHZ. During the last three years I have installed every version of Redhat and Fedora successfully up through FC1. Then I tried to install FC2 and had a really hard time. Let me summarize the steps in order. 1. I had an off-brand set of CD-s which I used to install FC2 successfully on our Dell Precisions at work. On my test machine these CD-s failed the media check so I burned some Imation CD-s which passed the media check. 2. Installing caused the text install to fail several times saying the rpm could not be loaded. Hitting return caused the load to succeed. However, in the middle of the second disk the computer locked up and I could not go any further. 3. Through trickery I got a booting version of FC2 which ended up with the kernel panic I asked about earlier but could not get rid of. 4. Finally, I bought another CD reader. The installation proceeded without rpm reading failures but again the machine locked up in the middle of the second CD in the loading of xorg. 5. Again through trickery I loaded the rest of the rpms and got a booting system. This time no kernel panic but dozens of errors in starting the daemons in init.d and X would not come up. After all these educational experiences I decided to see if the machine itself had cratered so I installed FC1 again. It installed without problem and gave me a booting system. In every case I did not try to load every possible package but did install the OO stuff and Gnome as well as KDE. There is something about FC2 that is not very friendly. Does anyone know what it is? Remember that these CD-s successfully installed FC2 on our Dells. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
