problem installing Fedora 8

[Micros50]

On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 09:56 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Karl Pearson wrote:
> > On Tue, September 1, 2009 9:30 pm, Buz Davis wrote:
> >> Rick Stevens wrote:
> >>  >Have you tried looking at the other consoles (ALT-F2, ALT-F3, ALT-F4)
> >> to
> >>  >see if there's some specific error when it croaks?
> >>
> >> Thanks for the suggestion, Rick.  I was unaware of these.  I have
> >> checked them and found messages to the effect that the processor is not
> >> supported.  These actually referenced a processor later than my K6.
> >> I then did some googling and found that apparently the first release of
> >> Fedora 8 did have a problem with AMD processors.  This was apparently
> >> fixed in what some sites refer to as "respins", but they don't seem to
> >> be available at this time.
> 
> Uhm, try F9?  Download the LiveCD and try it.
> 

Its probably a good idea to try and run the LiveCd version of almost any
Fedora version first, in order to see if it plays nicely with your
hardware. That way you get an idea how it will run on your processor,
video card, etc. Then just install from the LiveCD and use yum to do the
updates and/or add on whatever additional packages you require after the
install.

Ciao

John