First fedora install attempt fails

From: Gene Heskett (gene.heskett_at_verizon.net)
Date: 04/25/04

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Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 06:34:32 -0400

    Greetings;

    I have an old rh8.0 with all updates machine, currently running kernel
    2.6.5-mm6. But the gtk stuff has stopped working and the more I try
    to update, the more dependency hell I get into. The latest fltk is
    installed, but alsamixergui can't find it even after I fix the
    configure script. The latest atk, pango, and glib are now installed,
    but the gtk+-2.4.0 configure bails out claiming the 2.2.3 version of
    glib its finding is too old. Thats a pkg-config problem I think, but
    NDI how to fix it. gkrellm and gftp refuse to configure because Xft
    is fubared, and I've checkinstalled the last 2 versions without
    effecting that. Is there any way to make pkg-config update its
    database files?

    All this BS started with a failed attempt to build the new X.org X
    release about 2 weeks ago, which never got through the initial make,
    and to my knowledge never installed anything. But thats when this
    system started losing its ability to run anything that needed gtk or
    Xft.

    Using k3b in the auto burn mode, I made disks of the 4 iso's of
    FC2-test2. The auto burn mode chose DAO. Disk 1 was not bootable.
    But I could mount it and read it just fine. So I reburnt another in
    TAO mode, which was also readable but not bootable.

    This machine can boot a knopix or mepix cdr/w just fine, so whats the
    deal with fedora?

    How can it be made bootable so it can be used to update an install? 

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