Fedora Coverstory in Linux Format

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Thu Nov 16 15:26:44 UTC 2006


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Smith, Herb wrote:
> I'm certainly not a Linux expert, but I have been a RH/FC user since
> RH8. A respected friend of mine recommends Ubuntu as his favorite
> distro, so I tried installing it on an old PIII 450mHz machine.  I
> had a terrible time getting it on.  The live CD wouldn't work right.
> I finally got a minimal system on with only a text interface and
> then had to do the apt-get thing to get the full system from the
> network.

That brings up another interesting point.  The live cd that's
recommended for most installs has limitations on the ways you can
partition and setup grub.  I had to use the alternate install cd,
which provided a text mode install.

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