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March 12, 2005 at 2:39 pm #116697AwesomeSauceParticipant
Thank you so much Hyperbyte! I let the files download overnight, and luckily none of my folks turned the computer off. 😉 Thanks for that program also, I checked the MD5Sums and everything looks good. Now I will burn them.
I’ll tell you how everything turns out after I got the new OS installed.
March 12, 2005 at 2:50 pm #116692EEDOKMemberQuote:This sounds more like an advertisement than a real opinion to me. Fedora Core does not require more computing power than any other OS I’ve known. Fedora Core runs fine on a 133mhz in text mode and it runs quite smoothly in graphical mode on a 400mhz with 128mb ram.That’s not the problem with Fedora core, the problem with Fedora core’s speed is that it’s not optimized in any way. Ubuntu is optimized for GNOME usase, Kubuntu is optimized for KDE usage. Then there’s distros like Yoper and Arch which are optimized for 686 computers and above. Then there’s gentoo, which if you’re willing to, can have it completely optimized to your specific use.
Quote:Well, yes… but you should take into account that you are dealing with someone who wants to do a server installation here. You are dealing with someone who has no experience with Linux and wants to do a desktop installation. Slackware is not an easy Linux distribution to start out with. Mandrake gets close, but for me Fedora Core still wins with ease-of-us.The amount you lose in speed and stability from using mandrake is not worth the amount of ease of use it gives you. Plus Slackware really isn’t that hard. Overall though I’d say use Ubuntu over Fedora core for 2 reasons:
A) 100% free, not stripped down because of a commercial counterpart
B) based on debian, which frees it from dependancy hell and gives you a software base of over 100000 programs.Quote:That’s very nice work, but again I must you remind you it’s not something that’s for everybody. It still contains a lot of questions that the average user doesn’t have an answer for and personally, I don’t find the results very conclusive.What result did it give you?
Quote:Well, it had mine wrong.Do you know this for sure? Have you tried the distro it recommended? Also remember it’s 87% accurate, not 100%(if your result truly is wrong you may have lowered the percentage to 86.7 but I still await the answer).
March 12, 2005 at 3:31 pm #116698AwesomeSauceParticipantOk, the boot floppy isn’t working. I tried using RawWrite to write the diskboot.img onto the floppy. But then when I boot the computer, I get a “Boot Failure”. Edit: I guess this is because the file I was trying to write to the floppy was 6 megabytes?
By the way, my computer can’t boot from a CD either. So how else can I make a boot floppy?
Another Edit: I just found this nifty program, and it worked.
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