Thanks for the responses folks. After recently joining this list and seeing all of the problems people are experiencing with Fedora, think I will remain with RH 6.2 as my applications are doing quite well at that level. I just got overcome with wanting to 'have the latest'! Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Wilkinson" <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 2:09 AM Subject: Re: CDROM boot error > Jack Taylor wrote: > > In attempting to upgrade from RH 6.2 to FC-4 from a CD on an AMD K5 100 MHz > > machine I get the following error on boot-up: > > Kam Leo wrote: > > Check the hardware requirements for FC4. I believe they specify a > > minimum speed of 200 MHz. > > To be honest, if Jack's not doing anything processor intensive, he'll > probably get away with it. Especially if he's just working in text mode. > > The graphical side of Linux has come a long long way since that machine > was current, and a lot of it does depend on fast processors with a lot > of memory. > > Much of the command line side hasn't changed that much, on the other > hand: it was pretty good back in the day, and the requirements haven't > changed that much. So the improvements are more incremental than a > complete radical change. > > (I ran FC1 with 32 MB of memory on a K5 PR133 as a proxy server and mail > server -- no X. It wasn't impractical, although it did use the disk a > *lot*). > > But that was on 2.4. Since then, text mode has had the 2.6 kernel, HAL, > and udev. None of them take up huge amounts of processor time, but they > do take up a lot more memory. > > Which is one reason why this question is important: > > How much RAM does this box have? > > A K5 would probably have 72 pin SIMMs. You might be able to get 4 16 MB > SIMMs for a total of 64 MB. You *might* even, if you're lucky, have more > than four SIMM slots (remember that they need to be installed in pairs), > or be able to get 32 MB SIMMs. > > What chipset does the motherboard have? Any Intel chipsets (with the > exception of the 430 HX, and then only on some motherboards) would have > only cached up to 64 MB -- memory above that didn't get cached, which > slows things down even more. It also limits the size of memory modules > you can use, and the total amount of memory it can handle. > > Don't think about FC4 with less than 64 MB of memory. > > Also, don't expect this to be easy. The easiest way is probably to > install from scratch, and reconfigure (and possibly recompile) any > programs you want to use. Expect configuration files to have had syntax > changes. > > What exactly *are* you using this computer for? > > James. > > -- > E-mail address: james | "We've just been contacted by the Lady of the Lake." > @westexe.demon.co.uk | "Really? What does she want?" > | "A really big towel." > | -- http://www.mopsy.com/d/19981122.html >
