AARRRRGH!!! (was RE: Linux Install error)

[lug at the-leveys.us (Don Levey)]

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-admin at blu.org [mailto:discuss-admin at blu.org]On Behalf Of
Ed Hill
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 11:18 PM
To: Don Levey; BLU
Subject: Re: AARRRRGH!!! (was RE: Linux Install error)


On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 22:45, Don Levey wrote:
> I've just spent a most frustrating 36 hours.
>
> I've been putting together a new machine (hardware specs below), and
> attempting to create a dual boot (Win2k and Fedora).  The Win2k
installation
> went smoothly.  Linux, not so much.

Hi Don,

Last week I installed RH 9 on an ASUS A7V600.  I know, its *not* the
same board -- has different North and South Bridges.  But the install
went very smoothly.  Could you could try Red Hat 9?

In my (limited) experience, RH 9 seems to have slightly better hardware
support than Fedora Core 1 (FC1 gave me *fits* with a certain 3Com NIC
that had worked nicely w/ RH 9).  I'm sure the Fedora project will
improve over time but for the moment I'd try the slightly older distro.

good luck,
Ed
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Well, I've got an update: I feel like an idiot.
I ran across this page:
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html
which gave me a workaround.  Basically, it goes like this:
Create a linux.bin file from the /boot partition, move it to the C:\ drive,
edit the boot.ini file to accept this.  It seems to be working so far.

The reason I'm working on Fedora rather than RH9 is that when they
end-of-life it in a few months I'd rather be on something that's still being
worked on.  So far, the sound card isn't working (VIA chipset), but the NIC
seems OK.

 -Don