Install 17 to a dinosaur

[Ranjan Maitra]

I don't know how old your machine is, but I had no trouble installing
F17 onto a nine-year-old Dell Precision 650. I started with a live
LXDE CD spin (booted from the only USB port that allows for booting) and
was running fine within a couple of minutes or three. 

On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:45:37 +0000 Beartooth <beartooth at comcast.net>
wrote:

> 
> 	I've been trying to install Fedora 17 to an old Dell PowerEdge 
> 1420 (which began life as a server, with two drives mirroring one 
> another; but that's not so now). The CD drive doesn't recognize DVDs; it 
> can't seem to imagine booting from an external USB drive that does; 
> trying to run a live CD never even gets to a login flash, because it 
> can't imagine a monitor being 1680x1050 -- and there's no xorg.conf to 
> edit, afaict. Editing to get it to boot into level 3 still gets the error 
> message about the monitor.
> 
> 	Is there a way??
> 
> -- 
> Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User
> I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
> 
> 
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