installing fedora on ASUS P5K-E

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Thu Nov 8 22:14:49 UTC 2007


Kam Leo wrote:
> On 11/4/07, Brad Karain <masiit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> FC4 just says it finds no compatible drivers.  Do I need to be installing
>> FC8?  Has anyone had trouble installing fedora on the P5K-E motherboards?
>>
>> Brad
> 
> F8 will have less compatibility with the old motherboards, display
> adapters, and sound cards  than FC1-FC3. I stopped at FC3 on my old
> ASUS P/I-P55TP4N box because I couldn't install more than 96MB of RAM.
> Time to consider other distributions such as Damn Small Linux or a BSD
> variant.
> 
Puppy...

Anyway, I would do FC7 for a mix of new enough to be recent and old 
enough to have hope of old hardware support.

I still have production FC1 and FC4 (behind firewalls!).

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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