Subject: text based install with FC1 on an old pentium From: kevin anthony <panther3e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:43:16 -0400 To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
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Hi, I'm trying to install FC1 on an old pentuim machine. Its a 75 mhz with a 850 meg hd. I try the install but when i get asked the question its time to install i hit proceed and it does nothing and then after a bit i get and error and it shuts down. I have tried several times and sometimes i get farther sometimes not. Any help would be aprcieated.
Thant you, Kevin
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I forgot to mention that it will not boot from cd and that it does not dos on it so i can not access the disk to get the boot floppies. I downloaded the boot disk and root disk image to my hard drive but could not copy it to a formatted floppy i would get an error saying file to big for the disk. I was lucky and found my install disks from a slackware 3.5 install i had done years ago.
Thanks for all of the help. I figured out the problem i think i was using the wrong distro. I used slackware and it went great.
That was my first post here and am a bit disappointed. I guess I was not controversial or wanting something more exotic. I was just trying to get some help with a simple install on an old computer so my son and i can learn command line and not tie up my main linux box in the process.
Sorry don't mean to bitch or whine just frustrated. Kevin
