Installation Issue

[James Wilkinson]

Megahertz wrote:
> I am trying to install Fedora Core 2, I have tested
> all the Cd's to make sure they have passed. And they
> did. I am running, 366MHz Intel Celeron processor, 4MB
> ATI Rage IIC, 64MB SDRAM, 20gig hard drive space and
> yes I'm trying to get the distro just to install and
> then install a lightweight windows manager (eg.
> fluxbox).

And you are installing in text mode, aren't you?

> This is the problem. I partition like this.
> / = fill max.
> /boot = 100MB
> <swap> = 190MB

With 20 GB, I'd recommend allowing more for swap. It's going to be
pretty slow if it needs that swap, but it won't crash on you.

There's a possibility that you simply ran out of memory during the
install. That's much more likely if you were installing in graphical
mode.

> Right now I got out my
> old win98 CD and had to install it (BLEH!) and now I'm
> running win98, though I installed fedora core 2, just
> the minimum. Worked fine because it only used CD 1.

So you actually got Fedora installed on a minimum install?

What sort of Internet connection do you have? How fast is it, and do
you need to use a modem attached to the computer? Can you borrow an
Ethernet connection?

You might find it easier to get the minimal install, and then let yum
handle the dependencies for the programs you want.

It would also be possible to try to negotiate the dependency maze
yourself, and use rpm to install the packages from the other CD. This
is not for the faint-hearted: there is a reason for the phrase
"dependency hell"!

If you're worried about your CDs or your drive, you could decide to
partition your drive further: I'd consider 12 GB for /home, and the
rest for swap, /boot, and /. What I'd do is format the 12 GB in Win98,
put the four ISO images there, md5sum them, boot with
linux text askmethod
and tell the installer to load from those images. Let it put /home on
the / partition temporarily: once you've got everything loaded,
mkfs.ext3 the 12 GB, move anything from the existing /home you need,
edit /etc/fstab, and mount the new /home partition.

Hope this gives you something to think about,

James.

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