I re installed FC3 tonight and let the eth0 hang or take a long time. I should have mentioned that the network card is plugged into my cable modem. I did let it hang for over 1 1/2 hours and the machine still completely locks up to the point that I have to power down the system and reboot. Any further help would greatly be apprectiated. Thanks Mathew S. Nowend -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of J. Matthew Price Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 12:26 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Extreme help needed with installation of FC2 on a Dell Inspiron 8600 The eth0 will hang or at least take a long time if the network connection cannot be resolved, make sure that you plug in the cable to speed up startup. If you don't have a network connection, the service should time-out. J. Matthew Price pricejm@xxxxxxxx Mathew S. Nowend wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Tonight I installed FC2 on my Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop. It installed > fine with no errors. When it was finished it asked to reboot. So I did. > It then asked about forcing a file system and the first time I said no > and the machine locked at swap file. The second time I forced the file > system and it passed the swap file error and gave this message modprobe: > Fatal Error: Error inserting floppy > c/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko:No such device > > Could somebody help please I am lost here? My floppy is modular on my > laptop and I put it in the bay and it still gave me the error. My floppy > can also be connected through a usb externally. > > I also tried installing FC3 and it did not give me the floppy error but > instead it got to the part where it checked eth0 and then it hung there. > > Quick overview of my laptop is a Pentium M 1.8ghz, 2 gigs of Ram, 60 gig > hd, broadcom nic, broadcom 56k, nvidia geforce fx go5200 64 meg video, > cdrw/dvd/combo max screen resolution 1920x1200 with a vertical > syncronization of 60 hz and horizontal syncronization of 31.5-90khz. I > hope that covers everything. > > Thanks > > Mathew Scott > > > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
