On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 13:52 -0500, Bruce Keats wrote: > I have been watching this discussion, but I do not find it helpful in > solving my problem. > > I did manage to finally install FC4 on Friday. Originally, I was > trying to install the x86_64 CDs without any success, with the SATA > controller set in either "normal" or "combined" mode. I did manage to > get FC3 installed with the SATA controller set to "combined". Late > Friday, I set the SATA controller to "normal" mode and tried the > normal i386 install CDs (instead of the x86_64 CDs) and everything > went OK. > > I am not sure what the particular recipe is for these Dell Optiplex > GX620's, but I will try and figure out a recipe. It seems to me that > you may need a Linux partition on the drive first. I vaguely remember > seeing a post about this in one of my Google searches. These boxes > arrived from Dell with Windows XP pro already installed. It could > also be problem with the SATA controller on the x86_64 CDs. Since I > have a number of these Dell's kicking around, I will try some > different combinations to determine what the recipe is. > > I will post my results in a day or so. > > Bruce > > > On 3/19/06, Anthony Messina <amessina@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > <snip> > ... long and unrelated but somewhat interesting discussion ... > </snip> > > gentlemen, have we helped the original poster with his > question/issue? ---- sorry - got sidetracked ;-) as for OP - recognize that 'in a day or so', we will see the release of FC-5 which has a new kernel and support for a different if not wider variety of hardware which may or may not be of issue to your using the FC-4 installation disks. Craig
