My machine!!

[Ed Sawicki]

Robert Morrison wrote:

> Greetings everyone,
>
> I am a long time fed up Windows user. I have run Linux on my computer 
> before, but at that time I wasn't very computer savvy (not that I'm 
> very computer savvy now either way) and didn't spend much time getting 
> to learn it. My machine is a Compaq Presario 5190, and I purchased the 
> Official Fedora Companion book, which came with the Fedora Core 
> Publisher's Edition CD ROM. I got through most of the installation 
> with no problem until after I set my root password I get a prompt that 
> says "Your machine is not supported by this version of Fedora". Three 
> years ago this computer was running Red Hat Linux 5.2... so what's the 
> deal with it not bieng able to run Fedora? Is there any chance in hell 
> that  I might be able to get this to run, or is there a version of 
> Fedora out there that my computer will run? I don't want to run 
> Window's 2000 on my computer anymore becuase I'm tired of suffering.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> Robert Morrison
>
The best Linux distribution is the one that runs on your
computer. Fedora is far from being the only one.

Ed