On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 16:29, Robert Morrison wrote: > Greetings everyone, > > I am a long time fed up Windows user. I have run Linux on my computer > before, but at that time I wasn't very computer savvy (not that I'm very > computer savvy now either way) and didn't spend much time getting to learn > it. My machine is a Compaq Presario 5190, and I purchased the Official > Fedora Companion book, which came with the Fedora Core Publisher's Edition > CD ROM. I got through most of the installation with no problem until after I > set my root password I get a prompt that says "Your machine is not supported > by this version of Fedora". Three years ago this computer was running Red > Hat Linux 5.2... so what's the deal with it not bieng able to run Fedora? Is > there any chance in hell that I might be able to get this to run, or is > there a version of Fedora out there that my computer will run? I don't want > to run Window's 2000 on my computer anymore becuase I'm tired of suffering. From the specs on a generic Compaq Presario 5190 it shows 128mb of memory. FC2 requires a bare minimum of 192mb to run graphics and a 400Mhz or better processor. Check out the release notes for FC2, you may be able to upgrade your machine to run Fedora. The release notes can be found at: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html Good luck, -- Clifford Snow
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