On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 16:25 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 11:40 -0500, Hal Levy wrote: > > Sorry- I am trying again I have not used any flavour of linux in > > more years than I care to even think about. I decided to give it a go > > with Fedora Core 6. I installed on a older Pentium 2 MMX box. The > > install went smoothly and I was up an running in a short time. > > Shortly after install I was notified about 140 some-odd updates that > > were availible and told the system to install them. > I am not as optomistic as the other posters. You did not tell us how > much RAM you have nor the speed of your processor but my experience with > a P3 500 MHz processor and 384 Meg of ram has not been stellar. > > My experience is that FC6 is uniquely unsuited for older processors with > older cards. I have not been able to trace down exactly why this is true > but in my case , at least, it is true. So your problems in getting your > system up and running does. not surprise me. > > My advice is to use an earlier version of Fedora is you want to stick > with this computer. I couldn't install FC6 to my older Pentium 3 at all. I installed FC5, using text mode and it went pretty smoothly. I swear that my old install of Caldera on a 486 ran faster though, with only 32 megs of memory. <g> Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
