fedora3 & an old abit be6/hpt366 board

[Rick Stevens]

wb wrote:
> hello,
> 
> 
> my firewall runs rh8 with no problem. wanted to upgrade it to fedora3 
> via the install cd's. the install process always crashes. is there a 
> problem with this install version and the old abit be6 board and it's 
> on-board hpt366? this cd set install has worked fine on other machines 
> here. is there a work around for this issue so i'm not forced to buy 
> another motherboard/cpu?

I don't know of an issue necessarily.  When you say "crashes", what
exactly do you mean?  Have you tried adding "nodma" to the boot command
line?
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