Oh... you really, I mean really need to shorten your post(s)... First and foremost, did you try FC4? Second, did you do a full CD test during the installation? (The installer will offer to test the CDs right after boot). Third, I'm using FC4 on a number of Opteron machines. Furthermore, I use FC3 on a number of Athlon XP/MP machnies. For all intent and purposes, Athlon 64 / Sempron 754/939 are identical to the Opteron (minus the SMP capability) and the AthlonXP/MP is identical to the Sempron 462. However, the source of the problem may be a problematic board (the Elitegroup board and/or the VIA chipset it is based upon) or a buggy BIOS. (Did you try Elitegroup for a newer BIOS?) Gilboa On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 00:11 -0700, Fraser wrote: > 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" > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > http://mail.yahoo.com >
