text based install with FC1 on an old pentium

[Timothy Payne]

On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 22:35, Timothy Payne wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 20:41, kevin anthony wrote:
> > >
> > > Subject:
> > > text based install with FC1 on an old pentium
> > > From:
> > > kevin anthony <panther3e at access4less.net>
> > > Date:
> > > Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:43:16 -0400
> > > To:
> > > fedora-list at redhat.com
> > >
> > > To:
> > > fedora-list at redhat.com
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi, I'm trying to install FC1 on an old pentuim machine.  Its a 75 mhz 
> > > with a 850 meg hd. I try the install but when i get asked the question 
> > > its time to install i hit proceed and it does nothing and then after a 
> > > bit i get and error and it shuts down.  I have tried several times and 
> > > sometimes i get farther sometimes not.  Any help would be aprcieated.
> > >
> > > Thant you, Kevin
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > I forgot to mention that it will not boot from cd and that it does not 
> > dos on it so i can not access the disk to get the boot floppies.  I 
> > downloaded the boot disk and root disk image to my hard drive but could 
> > not copy it to a formatted floppy i would get an error saying file to 
> > big for the disk.  I was lucky and found my install disks from a 
> > slackware 3.5 install i had done years ago.
> > 
> > Thanks for all of the help. I figured out the problem i think i was 
> > using the wrong distro.  I used slackware and it went great.
> > 
> > That was my first post here and am a bit disappointed.  I guess I was 
> > not controversial or wanting something more exotic.  I was just trying 
> > to get some help with a simple install on an old computer so my son and 
> > i can learn command line and not tie up my main linux box in the process.
> > 
> > Sorry don't mean to bitch or whine just frustrated.
> > Kevin
> 
> I don't know how but I'm sure you can only install a minimum
> installation with out X and use the text install.  I'm sure some one
> else has the answer.  Or you could drop back a few versions of Red Hat
> to see if it will run on your machine.  When your FC boots does it ask
> how you want to install?  I can't remember what the start up asks for.
> 
> Tim...

I forgot to mention ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/
You might want to google your machine speces, but small Linux will run
on just about anything.

T