Re: Trying to install Fedora 7 and 8

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:17:04 +0000, rosoft wrote:

1)
The old version Fedora 6 is installed properly except that the Lan that
the Lan driver doesn't work. The Network setup doesn't find the right
driver for the Lan. As I read the support pages on the manufactors
homepage they do have a driver to download. The very same on that came
with the mother board but I can't compile that one. Possibly because
have version that doesn't allow the core to be recompiled. The install
asks me to chose a driver for reading the disks or to chose a drive to
boot from. If I chose to boot from the drive where the already installed
Fedora is the setup fail.

If 6 installed, then 7 or 8 should, too. Your motherboard is not too old
or too new to have hardware incomptibilities.

To compile anything kernel related, besides have gcc, etc., you need to
install the kernel-headers. Using yum, in a terminal, as root:

yum install kernel-headers

If Fedora Core 6 is still installed and before installing the kernel-
headers, I would update the install using yum:

yum -y update

This will update (NOT upgrade, which is different) the system, including
the kernel, and all the apps to the most current versions and take care
of all dependencies. Then, compile the LAN driver.

man yum for the details

2)
So I thought to isntall Fedora 7 or 8 instead. The install DVD can't
load the Linux boot section before installing any thing. It seams as
Linux can't handel the type of RAID on my mother board there was a
message on the vendors homepage that I had to set up the drives in a
RAID array done in the BIOS set up. However I fear thet that will damage
the other installs and data I have on the SATA and IDE drives.

Strange. How far does the boot off the DVD get before it stalls? Did
you checksum the DVD ISO download, before burning the DVD? If, yes, did
you have checksum the DVD after it was burned?

Try turning off RAID and see what happens. Try booting the install DVD
with no RAID and only 1 hard drive connected. If the DVD boots and
progresses normally, then, yes, you may have a RAID issue. You may have
to configure RAID AFTER the install.

3)
The easiest way to get things working might as I did in the old server.
Installing an "old" network card that I know Fedora support and the
updating from within Fedora once I get the Lan and Wan working. I'm in a
dead lock situation. I seam to need a network connection to updata but I
can't update because I don't have a network connection. I have stumbled
into this problem before and then I solved it with another

The Fedora install allows you to configure the LAN and network after the
install is complete. I've had to do this at times with Fedora Core 3, 4
and 5. Unless you're using a net install disk. Are you?

Are you using the 64-bit version of 6, 7 or 8?

What network chip is your onboard LAN controller using?

Stef

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On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:43:23 +0000, rosoft wrote:

Hi

I have tried to install Fedore 7 and Fedora 8 on my new PC both are
failing to install since I don't know what driver to use ofr the
disks. The motherboard I'm using is a ASUS MsA-VM. The problem is that
it doesn't say what driver to use on in the manual for the mother
board. There are drivers shipped with the mother board but only for PC
and for Linux only for the Ethernet card and CPU support. The CPU is
an AMD 64 X2 (Duo) at 4400+. 1024 MB Ram, one Seagate IDE and two SATA
drives.

Can some one help me please, I don't know what to do

I don't think drivers are your problem. Most all the basic drivers are
part of the Linux distro. Rarely are the drivers included by the
motherboard manufacturer needed. I think it's the mix of the IDE and
SATA drives. At what point is the install failing? Be specific.

Stef


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