On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 22:35, Timothy Payne wrote: > On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 20:41, kevin anthony wrote: > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > To: > > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > 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 > > I don't know how but I'm sure you can only install a minimum > installation with out X and use the text install. I'm sure some one > else has the answer. Or you could drop back a few versions of Red Hat > to see if it will run on your machine. When your FC boots does it ask > how you want to install? I can't remember what the start up asks for. > > Tim... I forgot to mention ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/ You might want to google your machine speces, but small Linux will run on just about anything. T
