On Sunday 16 April 2006 13:08, LeRoy H. Maxwell III wrote: >Running FC5 x86_64 here on a Turion ML-34 HP-L2000cu w/synaptics > touchpad > >Installed perfectly 1st time no command line or other boot options > required, used partitionmagic to partition out the disk, (ie: shrink > the winxp partition) I even have the broadcomm onboard wireless up > and going, only one thing left to fix the fglrx drivers for the 200m > igp > On an HP Pavilion dv5320us laptop? Obviously theres a lot of diff between yours and mine. >So not exactly sure what is causing all of your problems. >-----Original Message----- >From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gene Heskett >Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 7:03 AM >To: For users of Fedora Core releases >Subject: I give up on x86-64, its too busted. > >Greetings; > >What in hell does it take to actually install the x86-64 version of > FC5 on an hp lappy? > >I go thru the disk partitioning several times, finally manageing to >convince ntfs that it only can use 30GB of the disk. Then it takes a >chant like some black magic spell (linux noapic noapci irqpoll >pci=assign-busses lapic) to even get it to boot, and test, the install >dvd. The media test was successfull FWIW, apparently not much. > >I get thru the prelims ok, but fighting with a synaptics touch pad > with a gain of about 70 million (1/4" of motion is off-screen in any > direction, any touch is a double-tap unless holding the left button > down already), and checkmark the other two boxes on the what do I > install screen, click ok and go take a nap. 10 minutes later I > decide its time for a bowl of cherrios & when I get back in here, the > screen is telling me the media is bad or we have a bug. > >It cannot open the file 'setup-2.5.49-1.noarch'! Now as thats a > pretty important file for the whole install process, I don't find > this at all encouraging. Upsetting even... > >So what am I supposed to do here folks, install the i386 version? > Thats NOT what I bought an amd64 equipt box for. And I've got about > another 10 days to sort this, load it up and drive 1000 miles for a > couple of months. > >-- >Cheers, Gene >People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word >'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's >stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) >Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above >message by Gene Heskett are: >Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. > >-- >fedora-list mailing list >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
