This time I zeroed the partition table with Linux Mint 12 RC and made partitions for FreeDOS, swap and root. Mint on a 1 GB 300 MHz Pentium III is not a pleasant experience. Think molasses and quadratic. I installed the GPIB files but couldn't figure out how to make them work. I then burned 32 bit F16 onto a DVD+R. The computer would not boot the DVD. I then tried a DVD-R. Still no boot. After installing F16 via pxeboot I checked both DVDs with dd and both read the full disc without reporting errors. This time Anaconda was well behaved. I installed F16 software dev. Not too quickly, but definitely faster than a mole in granite. I installed kernel-dev and was able to install Linux GPIB from the source tarball. I edited gpib.conf for my board, issued a modprobe pc2_gpib and voila! ibtest worked. I do not recommend a 1GB 300 MHz Pentium III for modern Linux, but it is the fastest thing I have that doesn't lock up when the GPIB board is installed. (Now I have to RTFM the counter manual). On 11/11/2011 05:25 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > I prepped an old 20 GB IDE drive with a 500 MB FreeDOS partition. > Anaconds 25 refused to use this disk unless it wiped out existing > partition table (and FreeDOS with it). > > I prepped an old 18 GB IDE drive with 500 MB of FreeDOS and loaded > Xubuntu 10.10 on the rest using manual partition. Xubuntu cheerfully > installed alongside FreeDOS and even generated the Grub2 commands > for multiple booting. > > I think Anaconda's greed will provoke a number of flames. > First the Emperor's GUI and now this. > -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R caf@xxxxxxxx www.omen.com Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications Omen Technology Inc "The High Reliability Software" 10255 NW Old Cornelius Pass Portland OR 97231 503-614-0430 -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
