On Monday 09 August 2004 00:44, Clifford Snow wrote: > 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 128megs sounds resonable to me. Especially if you run xfce. (http://xfce.org) Maybe you should have a look at the rule project (http://www.rule-project.org/)
