FW: Install problems Fedora Core 3 - Dell OptiPlex....

[Jim Cornette]

Irving, Dave wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> Thank you so much for your help. I did a text install this morning and
> followed your instructions, and hey - would you know it - it all worked
> fine!
> Your advice was easy to follow - even for a total Linux newbie like me -
> thank you!
> 
> Thanks also to David Cary Hart, who also gave me useful information last
> night.
> 
> Im sure I'll have more questions soon - and its great to see such a helpful
> community!
> 
> Thanks guys!
> 
> Dave.

I'm glad that the explanation helped you out. The broken driver was a 
chore to overcome for me. Help from others through the fedora-test-list 
and through bugzilla helped me through this problem.

I tried to take into account the firstboot problem, which is where you 
create the regular user and also the refresh problem with the i810 
driver for the FC3 snapshot edition. The two major bugs that I 
encountered with FC3 were the mediacheck problem and the i810 driver 
breakage. Having to overcome released versions of a distribution with 
fairly complicated problems in the released edition seems to be 
something that has to be reckoned with until the next release snapshot. 
Since the releases are pretty much on a 6 month cycle, you should be 
alright with the release of FC4, where the problem was fixed and 
probably gone for future installations.
A good thing is that you learn more about the processes in Linux and can 
use the knowledge later in the use of Linux.
FC4 was delayed, I believe the delay is a justifiable delay. Hopefully 
FC4 will be a more presentable snapshot. Some indicatons that it is 
related to reducing the size down from 5 CDs to 4 CDs, but there are 
other problems that would justify delaying FC4T1 a bit also.

Jim
Jim

> 
> Section "Device"
>          Identifier  "Videocard0"
>          Driver      "i810"
>          VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
>          BoardName   "My Favorite Videocard"
> 	Option "NoAccel"
> EndSection