Can't run Fedora Core 3 on my new PC

From: ezjab (ezjab_at_ieee.org)
Date: 12/29/04

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    Hi,

    I'm copying a previous post and the response at the end of this post.

    I followed the suggestion from Mark South and have run Knoppix 3.7
    on my PC. Things are more or less running fine (I have not gotten the
    ethernet to work yet).

    Regarding the ethernet, I took a quick look and on Knoppix,
    there is not 'connection' for the ethernet, nor is the route
    table filled in as yet. In KDE, I tried to add a connection,
    but I could not see a way to do it. I did check the devices
    and both ethernet devices (one on board the motherboard and
    one on an ethernet PCI card) can be seen.

    My primary purpose for posting is that
    I would like to get Fedora Core 3 running, but I'm not sure
    what the next step is. Are there any suggestions?

    Jim Anderson

    ------------------- Original post and the response --------------
    On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:22:59 +0000, ezjab wrote:

    >>
    >> Help!!!
    >>
    >> I'm been trying to get Linux running on my new PC
    >> for 2 months now and have tried various installations
    >> (Mandrake 10.1, Fedora Core 1 and Fedora Core 3).

    The first thing I would try in your place is to run some of the LiveCDs,
    like Knoppix, Morphix, Ubuntu, Mepis, Slax. And as a real check of your
    hardware, try booting Freesbie 1.1. If anything makes those choke, you
    have a quick entry to expert mode where you can load a driver at a time,
    or run them failsafe and turn on devices one at a time by hand.

    >> If anyone can offer ideas on why this PC will not work with
    >> Linux and what I can do to get it working, I would appreciate
    >> the help.

    Please tell us what happens if you try booting at least Knoppix 3.6 or
    3.7. Then it'll be easier to help.

    -- Mark South: World Citizen, Net Denizen

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