Installing Linux

zhensem · Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 10:49 pm Post subject: Installing Linux

Has anybody successfully installed Linux (Fedora Project Core 2) on a Intel Pentium 4 system?

If so, how did you do it? 'Cause when I press Enter for a normal GUI installation after it unpacks "vmlinuz" and then "initrd.img" it briefly flashes Ready and then restarts the system.
I noticed it filed as a bug (bug 117709) on the Bugzilla Fedora Project pages, however, that was with a beta version, I'm trying to install a final. The guy who filed it originally reported this bug occuring on an AMD K6/2 system and the personal who this bug was assigned to replied saying that the test1 (beta) version doesn't support k6/2 class machines. I've re-submitted information about that bug, but was hoping some of you can get shed some light onto this. Surely Fedora Core 2 supports Intel, especially P4?
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ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

i imagine it would and if im not mustaken its been done.........i have a fried whos REALLY into linux, is solaris certified, amd owns a sparc 10......i'll ask him.....=]
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zhensem · Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 11:05 pm Post subject:

Thanks TH! Please do find out.

It's a pain in the butt. I downloaded it, burned the CD. Partitioned the drive up (which itself involved moving loads of data around the different drives) ready for Linux and bang - doesn't install. Grrrr

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ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

still havent gotten a response from that friend of mine..........havent forgetten about you zhen
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zhensem · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 3:18 pm Post subject:

Thanks!
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gmoney · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 3:49 pm Post subject:

uh i dont know if this helps any but i installed red hat 9.
i had problems at first too. what it turned out to be was that when i recorded the iso's to disk i had to use a low recording speed 24x. because at 48x the disks would get corrupted.

have you done the disk check for your cd's. thats how i found out my disks were corrupted.

gmoneyhobbit

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zhensem · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:32 pm Post subject:

I did do the disc checks, and they turned out to be OK.
Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

I've finally got Mandrake 10.0 installed after trying Fedore Core 2 and Red Hat 9 (right now posting from Mandrake's Konqueror web browser).

TH, if you can still find out from your friend that would be great - 'cause I still would like to try and install Fedore Core 2.

Btw, could someone possibly tell me what really are the general difference between all the distros of linux.
If you could say like which one is used for what, etc, that would be awesome - cause I understand SuSE and Mandrake are the easiest to install and use (that's what I've read, anyway) while the rest a fit for different purposes.

Thanks.
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zhensem · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 11:22 pm Post subject:

While I'm on Linux, does anybody know how I can manage the bootloader (LILO), i.e. in windows I can either use msconfig or directly edit the boot.ini (i do know what i'm doing) but is there something similar in linux?
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zhensem · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 11:25 pm Post subject:

Don't worry, just found it after I posted.

Any differences between LILO and GRUB (mind you, I'll find out for myself soon enough).

Oh and sorry for all the questions - i might be a veteran of Windows but a complete and utter noob at Linux. lol

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ladyseb · Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 11:26 am Post subject:

Most people don't really recommend Debian for beginners, but the new Debian-installer is surprisingly REALLY easy to use. If you'd like to try it, it takes some getting used to...but it's the best distro I've used...you get hooked. (: I have to pry myself away... if you want to give it a go...
http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

Make sure if you have S-ATA that in the BIOS it's set to S-ATA only...type linux26 to get kernel 2.6 or just hit enter to get kernel 2.4. Oh, and download the 110 MB image for i386.

I do have a friend that has successfully installed Fedora Core 2 on a P4 with no problems...I'm about to try myself just to check it out, so I'll let you know.

As for LILO v. GRUB. I use GRUB now, but in the past have used LILO. Generally, I like GRUB better I think...but there are three major differences.

Lilo has no interactive command interface (one command only), and it stores info about where the kernel is or where the other operating system it is to load on the MBR is.
And, I believe it cannot read ext2 partitions.

You don't have to update the MBR each time you install a new kernel with GRUB, I believe.
Lilo can be more risky than GRUB because a misconfigured MBR leaves the system unbootable. In GRUB, if the config file is misconfigured, it will default to the command line interface where you can boot the system manually, which is really nice.

Hope that helps some!!