On 9/6/07, Doug Purdy <1der@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Please provide advice on computer, OS, support. > > I am a FC2 user. F7 would not install on my computer as it seems > reluctant to boot any DVD even though it installed FC2 fine from CD. I > have another old XP computer with many gigs free too but no DVD. From > messages here it might be possible to get these working under F7 someday > but it will cost too much to spend more time on this now. > > I want > - to get going in the next few days. > - to do distance learning of French and Spanish via video courses/ > live-video-voice-chat meetings with others. > - to use Antidote, an advanced program for French writing that runs on > FC5 and FC6 with OpenOffice2 or XP and Vista with MS Word, etc. > - to use Linux on at least some computers. > > I am ready to do one or more of the following: > - buy an iMac > - buy whatever clone (if I can figure out in a few days which computer > or parts will work and what to use for video conferencing) > - buy XP > - buy RHEL or any other support necessary to get going fast. > > I would be glad of any recommendations you would care to provide, here > or in email, or even other places to ask. The installation dvd of F7 does not also boot here, as its kernel is buggy: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=242229 You may be able to upgrade your FC2 to F7 through yum. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq Paul
