Fedora core 3 install

[Keith Brentson]

Hi again Andy,  it's the pest again!  :)

I tried your recommendation to hit "I" during start
up.  I even see where it says to hit I for interactive
startup. I've tried it several times,  and for some
reason,  the computer flys right by it.  I even tried
"I" followed by the enter key, and still the same.  I
also mucked around in the Grub menu a little, but to
no avail.  Perhaps I should go to an installathon,  or
read more about Linux as the rest of you probably
have.  I'm somewhat proficient in Windows, but like
many have become disappointed with it in some ways,
and am interested in trying an alternative.  
Do you happen to know if the commands in Linux are
"distro specific"? Or is there and underlying system
that is the same for all distros?
Thank you so much for your time.  I really appreciate
it.

Regards,

Keith
--- Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
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> Keith Brentson wrote:
> | Hi again Andy,
> |
> | I typed an  "a" when I saw the grub screen, then
> it
> | chanaged screens.  I typed in noacpi, but it
> didn't
> | seem to work either.  It still froze up when  eth0
> was
> | starting.
> | Thanks for taking the time to respond.
> 
> I think what I might do next is try to disable the
> Ethernet driver from
> starting.
> 
> IIRC bringing Eth0 up is in the part of the
> initscripts you can elect to
> enable or disable if you type 'I' during the startup
> sequence?  This is
> totally from my dim memory.
> 
> If that is so, hit the 'I' key when you see "press
> 'I' to enter
> interactive startup" and when (if!) it asks, do not
> run the script to
> bring up eth0.
> 
> Then once you boot with no eth0, you can have a look
> in the logs to see
> if there is any diagnostic, and consider to bring
> eth0 up by hand while
> doing a tail -f /var/log/messages in another window
> to see what you can see.
> 
> - -Andy
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