Installation problem on laptop

Colin Charles linux at bytebot.net
Thu Jan 29 03:46:29 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 03:44, Patrick STODDARD wrote:
> I have tried several times to get Fedora installed on an IBM 
> ThinkPad i1411 (300MHz mobile Pentium MMX [stepping 02], 256 
> Mb RAM, 4Gb HD), which has handled Red Hat 6 through 9 without 
> problems.  The install CDs check out OK, it boots off the CD, 
> and the installer (text or graphical - I tried them both) goes 
> along fine until the point I would start selecting packages 
> to install.  At this point, I get an error with the following 
> text:
> 
> You are trying to install on a machine which isn't supported
> by this release of Fedora Core. 

Could it be you're not getting the kernel package installed? As in the
bug here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106590

Maybe your CDs are at fault...
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