CDROM boot error

[Jack Taylor]

Thanks for the responses folks.  After recently joining this list and seeing
all of the problems
people are experiencing with Fedora, think I will remain with RH 6.2 as my
applications
are doing quite well at that level.  I just got overcome with wanting to
'have the latest'!

Jack

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Wilkinson" <fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 2:09 AM
Subject: Re: CDROM boot error


> Jack Taylor wrote:
> > In attempting to upgrade from RH 6.2 to FC-4 from a CD on an AMD K5 100
MHz
> > machine I get the following error on boot-up:
>
> Kam Leo wrote:
> > Check the hardware requirements for FC4. I believe they specify a
> > minimum speed of 200 MHz.
>
> To be honest, if Jack's not doing anything processor intensive, he'll
> probably get away with it. Especially if he's just working in text mode.
>
> The graphical side of Linux has come a long long way since that machine
> was current, and a lot of it does depend on fast processors with a lot
> of memory.
>
> Much of the command line side hasn't changed that much, on the other
> hand: it was pretty good back in the day, and the requirements haven't
> changed that much. So the improvements are more incremental than a
> complete radical change.
>
> (I ran FC1 with 32 MB of memory on a K5 PR133 as a proxy server and mail
> server -- no X. It wasn't impractical, although it did use the disk a
> *lot*).
>
> But that was on 2.4. Since then, text mode has had the 2.6 kernel, HAL,
> and udev. None of them take up huge amounts of processor time, but they
> do take up a lot more memory.
>
> Which is one reason why this question is important:
> > How much RAM does this box have?
>
> A K5 would probably have 72 pin SIMMs. You might be able to get 4 16 MB
> SIMMs for a total of 64 MB. You *might* even, if you're lucky, have more
> than four SIMM slots (remember that they need to be installed in pairs),
> or be able to get 32 MB SIMMs.
>
> What chipset does the motherboard have? Any Intel chipsets (with the
> exception of the 430 HX, and then only on some motherboards) would have
> only cached up to 64 MB -- memory above that didn't get cached, which
> slows things down even more. It also limits the size of memory modules
> you can use, and the total amount of memory it can handle.
>
> Don't think about FC4 with less than 64 MB of memory.
>
> Also, don't expect this to be easy. The easiest way is probably to
> install from scratch, and reconfigure (and possibly recompile) any
> programs you want to use. Expect configuration files to have had syntax
> changes.
>
> What exactly *are* you using this computer for?
>
> James.
>
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