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sinanjuWe've got an old PC sitting around at home. Nobody uses it anymore. I have mine, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snippy has hers, and Twoson--when he visits--brings his own PC box. (He hooks it up to the keyboard, mouse and monitor of the spare computer.
I have a Fedora Red Hat Core 6 disk on hand. I've bought a couple of issues of Linux User magazine at the local news stand. It's an English magazine, and each issue comes with a DVD disk containing a different Linux OS release. (I also have a Ubuntu Linux DVD.)
I've been thinking of trying a couple of alternative Linux distros, just to compare them to the SuSE 10.1 I'm running on this machine. So I tried to install the Red Hat OS on the spare computer. Three hours and two attempts later, I have a non-functional box. In both instances the installation simply stalled out part-way through--at different points in the process--for no reason that I can determine. The install process even asked if I wanted to check the media (DVD) before I began. I did and it checked out okay.
It's annoying, but no big deal. It's not like having trouble installing software onto this computer, which leaves me high and dry if it doesn't work properly. I guess my next move is to see if the Ubuntu DVD works any better. I'm tempted to say that I'm not impressed with Fedora, but that would be unfair--at this point I don't know if it's the software, the machine, or both.
snippy has hers, and Twoson--when he visits--brings his own PC box. (He hooks it up to the keyboard, mouse and monitor of the spare computer.I have a Fedora Red Hat Core 6 disk on hand. I've bought a couple of issues of Linux User magazine at the local news stand. It's an English magazine, and each issue comes with a DVD disk containing a different Linux OS release. (I also have a Ubuntu Linux DVD.)
I've been thinking of trying a couple of alternative Linux distros, just to compare them to the SuSE 10.1 I'm running on this machine. So I tried to install the Red Hat OS on the spare computer. Three hours and two attempts later, I have a non-functional box. In both instances the installation simply stalled out part-way through--at different points in the process--for no reason that I can determine. The install process even asked if I wanted to check the media (DVD) before I began. I did and it checked out okay.
It's annoying, but no big deal. It's not like having trouble installing software onto this computer, which leaves me high and dry if it doesn't work properly. I guess my next move is to see if the Ubuntu DVD works any better. I'm tempted to say that I'm not impressed with Fedora, but that would be unfair--at this point I don't know if it's the software, the machine, or both.
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Date: 2007-03-09 02:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-09 06:59 am (UTC)I tried later tonight to load a Ubuntu OS. I had a double-sided DVD with Ubuntu on one side and Fedora (a different disk) on the other. The Fedora side would generate the initial "do you want to install this?" screen. Putting it in the DVD drive with the Ubuntu side up led to the system trying to boot from the CD rather than the DVD drive.
Annoying. The system is clearly set up to boot from DVD if there's something there, but the Ubuntu DVD isn't working.
Shazbat.
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Date: 2007-03-09 07:14 am (UTC)Is the Fedora installation package repository on the disc? That could be an issue if it's a bad burn.