Hi There,
My name is "Fraser". I am currently using
FC-3 as my only OS (as i found "windows" a technically
poor OS). I have a very talented friend (a mechanical
engineer) who wants to enter into the world of
computer through his business (he is working very hard
to launch a magazine on engineering profession). He is
an intellectual person so he i decided to "gift" him
with FC-3 CD set when he bought "AMD-sempron".
BUT i tried every way and was not able to install FC-3
on "AMD-sempron" ( i installed FC-3 on my system using
same CDs, i have Celeron-600 on SiS-630). I was
disappointed and so was he. For 7 days continuously i
keep on teching him the differences between FC-3,
FreeBSD, UNIX, Mac OS X and windows and also about how
windows makes a person "intellectually handicapped by
eroding his common-sense of softwares" and also about
the social effects of softwares. He was very
interested in using GIMP toolkit for his magazine
because of high-quality of GNU softwares. BUT now i am
helpless as i have only FC-3 and nothing else, anyway
he is using windows now but everyday when he wakes up
he picks up FC-3 CDs and "FC-3 bible" that i gifted
himand he feels sad for some time.I feel very unhappy
at this. I am providing here full hardware
specification:
############ HARDWARE-SPECIFICATION ################
PROCESSOR: AMD-sempron - 2500+
MOTHERBOARD: K8M800-M2 (of ECS-Elitegroup)
HARD-DISK: HITACHI 82.3 GB 7200 RPM
################################################
PROBLEM: He wants to use GNU/Linux for his
"AMD-sempron" procesor.
i get the following error when i try to install FC-3
on his AMD-sempron ---
everything goes fine (like using personal,
workstation, custom install and using disk-druid,
setting time etc.) untill it starts installing
packages. At 1st CD or at 2nd CD it gives the
following error while installing the packages--
#################### ERROR ########################
There was an error installing xyz.(xyz can be
perl-package, open-office package or any other with
proper version number). This can indicate
media-failure, lack-of-disk-space, and/or hardware
problems. This is a fatal-error and your install will
be aborted. Please verify your media and install
again.
press OK button to reboot the system.
#####################################################
PROBLEM EXPLAINED:
I tried to install FC-3 severla times at different
intervals of time but got the same error.I knew that
FC-3 can not be installed on AMD-athlon-64 but didn't
it know it will not be installed even on AMD-sempron
which is a 32-bit OS. If FC-3 can not be installed on
this system may you tell me which GNU/Linux should i
use?
--- will Red Hat Enterprise Linux-4 will work? How can
i get the CDs?
--- Will FreeBSD work on this system?
** 2nd QUESTION: I, myself, want to buy a new
computer.
I want to buy AMD-athlon-64. Will
FC-3
work on it? If not then which other
GNU/Linux distributions.
Can anybosy help me on providing answers to these 2
questions?
thanks in advance.
"Fraser"
"the Great Intellectuals"
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