Posted by hsin on 24th April 2005
Ok, finally got through the installation of Fedora Core 3. Now it’s time to configure the system. By default, Fedora starts in graphics mode which I don’t like since the default graphics drivers for my Nvidia card isn’t all that great and the Nvidia drivers requires you to install it in text mode.
Even then, the display didn’t look that good on the LCD monitor and I’m not sure why. I also noticed a lot of things were running at start up that I wouldn’t want to run. Here is where I ran into my biggest complaint so far. There isn’t much documentation… Can’t figure out how to configure this system yet. So, in the end, I powered off the system and will have to do some more research.
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Posted by hsin on 24th April 2005
Been trying to install Fedora Core 3 this weekend and haven’t had any success. First was the kernel panic error which was solved by turning off the CDROM’s dma. Then I got the install going and it aborted due to lack of diskspace, so I reduced the number of packages to install. Next, it aborted when it said it had a problem with one of the files and said it cannot continue and to reboot. Starting over, I got it to start installing but then it stopped at one point for 30minutes and gave no indication of whether it can’t continue or what.
Surprising thing is that I had an older version of Red Hat on this machine at one point and it didn’t have any of these issues.
To disable DMA, when the server asks for any kernel parameters, type “ide=nodma” (without the quotes).
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