On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:22:13 +0100, Billly Pig wrote:

> I'm an old newbie trying to install Linux for the first time on an AMD K6
> box, using Fedora Core1 (publisher's edition). Using the graphical install
> utility, I got almost to the point where it asks you to select which
> packages to install (I'd chosen to do a custom install earlier) when after
> about 10 minutes of a rotating hourglass icon I was informed that "You are
> trying to install on a machine that isn't supported by this version of the
> Fedora core". How can I identify which device upset the installer ? Would
> it be sensible to remove my SCSI, Firewire and USB PCI cards and try again ?
>
I'm pretty sure that message indicates that Fedora doesn't like the CPU.
If if were one of the peripherals you see different error messages.
--
The instructions said to use Windows 98 or better, so I installed RedHat.

Billly Pig wrote:
> I'm an old newbie trying to install Linux for the first time on an AMD K6
> box, using Fedora Core1 (publisher's edition). Using the graphical install
> utility, I got almost to the point where it asks you to select which
> packages to install (I'd chosen to do a custom install earlier) when after
> about 10 minutes of a rotating hourglass icon I was informed that "You are
> trying to install on a machine that isn't supported by this version of the
> Fedora core". How can I identify which device upset the installer ? Would
> it be sensible to remove my SCSI, Firewire and USB PCI cards and try again ?

Probably the CPU. More probably the libc not compiled for Pentium P5 and
requires P6/686/Athlon.

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bill davidsen (davidsen@darkstar.prodigy.com)
SBC/Prodigy Yorktown Heights NY data center
Project Leader, USENET news
http://newsgroups.news.prodigy.com

Having established that my RAM configuration (96Mb) was less than the
recommedned minimum, I persevered using the Text Mode install, but this time
using red hat linux 9. This got me quite a lot further - to the point where
it was 98% through the package installation, and then it aborted "Signal 11
received". The install procedure suggested that I should be able to reboot,
but I was unable to do so. When I ran partition Magic from a windows
partition, it complained that the CHK values were incorrect, but said it
could fix them. This didn't help, but at least it stopped PMgc complaining.
I tried installing the bootloader into the MBR, but PMc didn't like that at
all - it refused to run. From DOS mode it said that the partition was bad -
error 114 (not documented in the PMgc book).

One other issue I had throughout was that the first attempt at loading the
boot image to disk always failed. Usually the 2nd or 3rd attempt was
successful. The install program suggested that the disk might be full (it
wasn't), but I suspect that something timeout waiting for the CD drive to
get up to speed.

So I gave up, and installed Fedora on my newer machine. It installed 1st
time, but I had of course had lots of practice by then. I will no doubt
have another go, but first I'll have a play with Linux - which was the
original goal. The desktop does look very good.

Thanks for your suggestions,

Pete K

"Billly Pig" wrote in message
news:40d6a895$0$8250$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net...
> I'm an old newbie trying to install Linux for the first time on an AMD K6
> box, using Fedora Core1 (publisher's edition). Using the graphical
> install
> utility, I got almost to the point where it asks you to select which
> packages to install (I'd chosen to do a custom install earlier) when after
> about 10 minutes of a rotating hourglass icon I was informed that "You are
> trying to install on a machine that isn't supported by this version of the
> Fedora core". How can I identify which device upset the installer ?
> Would
> it be sensible to remove my SCSI, Firewire and USB PCI cards and try again
> ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pete K
>

I have Fedora Core 2 running on an old Asus P55T2P4 board with 256K RAM and
a PowerLeap Pro-MMX (AMD K6/400 processor)
It works fine, I only get one failure during bootup - but keeps right on
going - not the fastest - but it does run !

gb

"G.Beat" wrote in message
news:brqCc.101185$0y.50774@attbi_s03...
> I have Fedora Core 2 running on an old Asus P55T2P4 board with 256K RAM
and
> a PowerLeap Pro-MMX (AMD K6/400 processor)

Well maybe I should upgrade to a 400 Mhz speed demon then ? ;-)

Joking aside, thanks for the comment. I think I'll give it anothger go when
I've learned a bit more about Linux - I hate to see a machine sitting there
unused when only a few years ago it was my pride & joy, well OK, maybe
that's going to far..

Pete K