On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 02:58:08PM -0400, Scott Wiper wrote: > I am having diffulty installing fedora core 2 on an old Pentium calss system > that cannot boot from CDroms. > > I have gone through all of my disks and looked for to bootdiskette.img file to > start the instalation from my copies of Fedora Core 2.0. No such critter. Search on "smart boot manager" in the usual places. It boots from floppy and will then boot from CD or other media. > > Current system to install on is: > P-166-S > 64meg EDO Ram You will want to blow this out to at least 128 MB if you want to run X. Alternatively, look at Walmart.com. I was able to buy a good if not bleeding edge computer for $200 a year ago which runs FC2 just fine. > IDE Two 3.2 gig seagate harddrive. > IDE 48X ATAPI CD-ROM > NIC_A Reatek 8139/801X PCI FAMILY > NIC_B Digital Equipment DEC21041 PCI BASED > VIDEO S3 Virge GX\DX > I am in despartate need of help... I want to learn this operating > system. If you are here to learn, get FC1; it will be better (less of a resource hog) on this equiptment, and you don't need the latest & greatest. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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