Help with installation.
Kam Leo
kam.leo at gmail.com
Thu Dec 30 07:22:00 UTC 2004
Many patched BIOSs are available here:
http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/k6plus.htm#patched
They're free. Use at your own risk. Use the BIOS flash utility from
your motherboard manufacturer and your systems will be useable for a
few more years.
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:42:03 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II
<mikes at kuentos.guam.net> wrote:
> In addition to the other reply. I've recently installed FC3 on two K6 2
> 300Mhz machine with 192MB ram and 256MB. Tried to use a 3GB
> drive, but wasn't enough space for the workstartion install, so was
> able to get it with a 5GB drive. You might want to try switching the
> 40GB drive as the master, if not a problem
>
> You might also what to look at the bug report, it has an update that
> deals with hard drive setups. It includes an update to the disk setup.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138419
>
> On 30 Dec 2004 at 16:46, Simon Slater wrote:
>
> >
> > Being a newbie to Linux, I am attempting to install Fedora from CD™s supplied with ht book œOfficial
> > Fedora Companion onto an AMD K6/200 with 256MB RAM; 1x2.1GB and 1x40GB (only 20GB of
> > which is recognized). I am encountering 2 error messages:
> >
> > * œ/dev/hdb is inconsistent ¦. Linux detected BIOS geometry incorrectly ¦ Using LBA is
> > recommended. Both hard drives are in BIOS as LBA.
> >
> >
> > * œYou are trying to install on a machine which is not supported by this release of Fedora
> > Core
> >
> >
> > These CD™s installed successfully onto a PII with 64MB RAM, but ran slowly. Are these
> > messages related, or is the AMD platform a problem? Where should I go from here?
> >
> > Simon
> >
> >
>
>
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