On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 13:21 -1000, Dave Burns wrote: > A few months ago, I tried to install fedora on a Dell Optiplex 320 > mini-tower. After some problems and googling, I found out that this > model's bios, graphics setup, and(something else I forgot) seem to > resist mightily the idea of running fedora. People seemed to have > problems getting grub running and the SATA disk in that model doesn't > like LVM. This guy > (http://wirelessness.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/installing-fedora-linux-on-a-dell-optiplex-320/) > claims to have gotten fc6 running on a 320, after 19 hours of > tweaking. I tried following his advice, but didn't get far. > > Now I am wondering whether anyone on the list can suggest either a > comparable PC from Dell that will not be so annoying, or perhaps the > whole issue has become moot since then (fc8?) and I should try again? > The workstation 490s have given me no trouble, but they cost more. > > By the way, knoppix runs fine on the 320 - what's up with that? ---- I've got several bugzilla entries on that specific topic. This is all about kernel support for various hardware and though I had no real issues with FC6, Fedora 7 and Fedora 8 brought new issues. The Knoppix or whatever isn't likely to work with the newer kernels. Basically, with FC7, it should work with x86_64 without any futzing, i386 does require a dance but I have forgotten what it was. With FC8, you need to add the following to boot it with x86_64... pci=noacpi clocksource=acpi_pm see... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=219715 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379201 Craig
