installation problems

[Jeff Ratliff]

On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 03:26:34PM -0500, Andrew Blechman wrote:
> Hello.
> I am relatively new to Linux and decided that I would use my old computer
> to play around with it.  It is an AMD K6-3 400MHz machine.  I have been
> trying to install various Linux platforms, and none of them work!  I have
> used Redhat in the past so I decided to try Fedora Core 3; but when I
> insert the CD it gives me the boot screen, and after pressing the enter
> key it just goes to a black screen with a flashing curser.  I'm pretty
> sure the CD's are okay (I downloaded them) since I tried the same thing on
> my newer computer and it went to the installation page without a hitch.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?  I'm starting to get very frustrated with all
> the failed attempts.  I've tried Knoppix and SuSE, and they don't work
> either.  The only one that worked was DSL, but I'd rather have something
> a little better.  Also, DSL seems to only be a CD boot, and I wanted to
> put it on my hard drive.
> 
  You still haven't really told us what your hardware is. I've got an 
AMD K6-3 400 on an Asus P5A motherboard that's successfully run Fedora
(Core 1, 2, and 3) on 64 megs of RAM (now 192 megs) for over a year. It's
got an old Riva TNT video card. 

What motherboard are you using? What graphics card? Do you have the 
latest BIOS for this motherbaord? You said you had and 8 gig hard drive, 
anything else (CD-ROM, add on cards, etc)? Is it IDE or SCSI? These kind 
of details help.