More adventures with FC5

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R caf at omen.com
Thu Apr 27 18:17:22 UTC 2006


Omen.com is now running FC5 on a Celeron 2000.
I had to set the motherboard to legacy IDE mode as
FC5 simply couldn't hack the advanced mode where
all the drives are accessible.  Mixed IDE and SATA
is Windows country.

I had to compile ImageMagick from the original sources
in order to get gpsmap to compile.  I was also able
to compile Xephem after loading various libraries.

I never got Linux to run on my Intel based office system.
So I sold the motherboard and got an AMD based motherboard.
After some shuffling of drives I was able to load either
FC5 or Opensuse 64 bit. AMD is Linux country.

During this adventure the Windows partition on my office 
system had become unbootable.  I ran Windows Rescue and
ran the boot repair programs.  This resulted in a partition
talble the the FC5 installer refused to read.  Suse could
read it but it was somewhat garlbed and installation was
impossible.  Insert Live Linux was able to read and write it
without difficulty.  Eventually I used the FC5 installer
to nuke the partition table and things have been peaceful
since.
-- 
Chuck Forsberg    caf at omen.com   www.omen.com   503-614-0430
Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications
  Omen Technology Inc      "The High Reliability Software"
10255 NW Old Cornelius Pass Portland OR 97231   FAX 629-0665




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