First fedora install attempt fails

[Gene Heskett]

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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