Fedora Installation :: Cannot Bring F12 Up On Pentium Pro / 128MB RAM
Dec 8, 2009
This is harder than it should be. 233 MHz Pentium Pro, 128 MB RAM, Matrox Mystique graphics. The important thing is 35W idle and no fans - a perfect firewall.
Things discovered so far:
- I need to burn DVDs for this machine with -speed=2 (sigh!)
- The syslinux boot loader cannot display its graphical menu - must use the syslinux boot: prompt (double sigh)
- The Live CD does eventually boot into X
The install DVD boots but quickly displays a "You do not have enough RAM to install Fedora on this machine" dialog (this is in text mode). Two questions:
Q1. Is it possible to get anaconda on the DVD to use a swap partition (or otherwise fit into 128MB)?
Q2: Failing that, can I install from the Live CD without starting X?
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Dec 6, 2009
I tried to boot from a Fedora 12 installation DVD. My machine configuration is:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-965P-DS4
Display Card: X300 PCI-E 128MB
After the "Welcome to Fedora 12!" screen, I then click on either: Install or upgrade an existing system [or] Install system with basic video driver [both display the same following screen and then the machine halt on] Loading vmlinuz . Loading initrd.img . .ready. Probing EDD (edd=off to disable) ... ok The number and cap lock have no responses. When I changed to another display card, it has no problem at all.
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Code:
[root@@aspire3500 ~]$ service network restart
Shutting down interface eth0: [ OK ]
Shutting down interface wlan0: [ OK ]
Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
[root@@aspire3500 ~]$
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I can use nmcli to bring down and back up again my wireless connections but it doesn't seem to work with my "Mobile Broadband" connections. It works to bring down my mobile internet with :
Code:
nmcli con down id OptusInet
But when I try to bring it up again with :
Code:
nmcli con down id OptusInet
It says :
Code:
Error: No suitable device found: no device found for connection 'OptusInet'.
Even when I add the device with :
Code:
nmcli con up id "OptusInet" iface ttyUSB0
It says :
Code:
Error: No suitable device found: device 'ttyUSB0' not compatible with connection 'OptusInet'.
Am I doing something wrong?? Any ideas anyone??
Device info for my mobile device :
Code:
[my_prompt]$ nmcli -p dev list .....
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box 1: 192.168.1.1
box 2: 192.168.1.2
box 3: 192.168.1.3.
It runs slattach and uses 192.168.1.9 to address serial connected ip device. I set up this scenario and the external device is ping(ed) with success but if I build a socket udp program that sends a broadcast to the LAN all the fedora boxes receive it except the external serial device. Why.
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Sep 13, 2009
i upgrade system from fedora10 to 11 when i start the system i got following error
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.imsettings.log file contains this
imsettings information
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Is DBus enabled:yes
Is imsettings enabled:yes
Is GTK+ supported:yes
Is Qt supported:no
[Code]....
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[Code]...
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Sep 14, 2010
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- Basic File Server maybe for the rest of Windows machines.
Machine Specs:
- Intel Pentium MMX 166MHz
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- HDs: 2GB
- DVDrom
I've been using ubuntu for a while and I am comftable with it's interface.
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