Extreme help needed with installation of FC2 on a Dell Inspiron 8600

[J. Matthew Price]

The eth0 will hang or at least take a long time if the network 
connection cannot be resolved, make sure that you plug in the cable to 
speed up startup.

If you don't have a network connection, the service should time-out.

J. Matthew Price
pricejm at musc.edu


Mathew S. Nowend wrote:
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> Tonight I installed FC2 on my Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop. It installed 
> fine with no errors. When it was finished it asked to reboot. So I did. 
> It then asked about forcing a file system and the first time I said no 
> and the machine locked at swap file. The second time I forced the file 
> system and it passed the swap file error and gave this message modprobe: 
> Fatal Error: Error inserting floppy 
> c/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko:No such device
> 
> Could somebody help please I am lost here? My floppy is modular on my 
> laptop and I put it in the bay and it still gave me the error. My floppy 
> can also be connected through a usb externally.
> 
> I also tried installing FC3 and it did not give me the floppy error but 
> instead it got to the part where it checked eth0 and then it hung there.
> 
> Quick overview of my laptop is a Pentium M 1.8ghz, 2 gigs of Ram, 60 gig 
> hd, broadcom nic, broadcom 56k, nvidia geforce fx go5200 64 meg video, 
> cdrw/dvd/combo max screen resolution 1920x1200 with a vertical 
> syncronization of 60 hz and horizontal syncronization of 31.5-90khz. I 
> hope that covers everything.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mathew Scott
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