Problems installing FC4 on Dell Optiplex GX620

[Jim Cornette]

Bruce Keats wrote:
> I am having all kinds of problems installing FC4 on a Dell Optiplex 
> GX620.  When I try and use the FC4 CDs, it fails to find the hard 
> drive.  The controller is the on board Intel SATA controller.  I know 
> the hardware works fine because I can install FC3 on the Dell and it 
> works as long as the BIOS is configured for combined mode.  If I do a 
> yum update, the latest FC3 kernel fails to boot.
>  
> Does anyone know how to install FC4 on these boxes.  I suspect the 
> latest 2.6.15 works as reported in 
> http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ushankar/linux-dell.html 
> <http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ushankar/linux-dell.html>.  Does anyone 
> know how to replace the kernel on the FC4 CDs to get these systems to 
> install properly?
>  
> Bruce
> 

You could holding off for a few days until FC5 is released instead of 
trying to install FC4.
Anyway, do you have both SATA and IDE drives installed? I have a Dell 
Optiplex that uses two 80 Gig SATA drives but has no IDE drives 
installed. It did not have any issues upgrading FC4 from FC3. It is not 
a GX620 though.

Jim

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