Horrible problems trying to run Linux on my hardware

[Wade Hampton]

xyzzy at hotpop.com wrote:

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>Greetings,
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>Hardware:
>ASUS motherboard with 82801EB Intel chipset (865G video, 82562EZ LAN), 
>Hyperthread support, Enhanced P-ATA/S-ATA, USB 2.0.
>1 GB ram
>Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
>3 harddisks, first one is the boot disk using Windows XP Pro (with dual boot 
>off of the third disk for Linux using XP boot manager) UDMA 2, the other two 
>are UDMA 5, the last disk being for Linux with /, /boot, /var and swap 
>partitions).
>LG DVD/CD-RW combo
>Adaptec SCSI 2930 PCI card
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>I managed to upgrade the system using the Internet until everything was at "0 
>updates needed".  It was still VERY slow and I had a few times where the 
>system froze completely, necessitating a press of the reset button.
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This crash sounds like it could be the Fedora SMP kernel issue that has
been discussed on this list and RedHat's bugzilla.  You might want to see:

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109497

Also look a the thread about
    Re: System lockup with SMP Kernel.

As for the running slow, that is a different problem.
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Wade Hampton