F17 vs. Pentium 4

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 12:37 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 21:14 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> >> On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> >> > I'm pretty sure there must be a less strange and rarely-used way of
> >> > doing it that would be usable in your situation...
> >> 
> >> If you know what it is, I'm all eyes.
> >> I started by burning a minimal F16 install CD.
> >> It didn't work.
> >> So far anything involving F16 or F17 has crashed my system.
> >
> > If it's that bad, then I'm not at all sure F16 or F17 would work if you
> > somehow bypassed the regular installation method...
> 
> I've been told that a kernel bug broke my motherboard for the F16 install.
> An install mechanism that uses a recent kernel should to the trick.
> Preupdate might be one, but I need a disposable place from which to start.

Oh, right, I forgot that. I think possibly a yum upgrade might be the
easiest option, really. Someone linked to the yum upgrade instructions
page already, right?
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