Dell Dimension 4700

[Bob Goodwin]

Smith, Herb wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ron [mailto:macroron at gmail.com] 
>> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 5:12 PM
>> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: Dell Dimension 4700
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>> Hello,
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>> Anybody have any problems installing Fedora Core 6 on a Dell 
>> Dimension 4700? My brother, a novice who lives far from me, 
>> wants to try Linux) I sent him a copy of Linspire. But it 
>> does not recognize his sata harddrive. I guess it might be a 
>> driver issue. He is about to give up on Linspire. I would 
>> like to here of others experiences installing Fedora on a 
>> Dell Dimension 4700.
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>> Thank you,
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>> -ron-
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> Ron,
> I have a Dell Dimension 4700 which I have been running FC5 on for some
> time with no issues.  I plan an upgrade to FC6 soon and I expect that it
> will only be better.  I dual-boot mine with the Windoze XP that came
> with the machine so I could maintain access to a few "windoze-only"
> applications that I have.  These are finding their way to
> open-sourc/linux so I expect I will soon be able to become
> MicroSoft-free.
>
> Herb
I have a Dell Dimension 4700 in front of me, not the computer I am using 
but I just booted it and ran dmidecode to verify the model number. It 
runs fine on FC6. I bought a second sata drive and installed FC5 on it. 
Installation was primarily a screw driver operation, it even had a place 
to mount it. There are good instructions on the Dell site. I bought a 
drive from Tiger Direct, had to order a cable too.

Last week I upgraded the FC5 to FC6 which went ok, I don't recall any 
big problems?

But it works well and gkrellm thinks it has two processors!

Bob Goodwin w2bod Zuni, Virginia




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