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by **kirvnet** » Wed 05 Nov, 2003 3:21 pm

It has been released, but the mirrors are still being updated. http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/f ... /i386/iso/
As of posting this the link still keeps timing out. It should be working before long.

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by **jubalj** » Wed 05 Nov, 2003 7:19 pm

Ofcourse it possible use a local mirror: http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html

or even better, use the bit torrent:
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/

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by **Antony** » Wed 05 Nov, 2003 8:27 pm

What is "Fedora Core 1"?

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by **kirvnet** » Wed 05 Nov, 2003 9:20 pm

Antony wrote:What is "Fedora Core 1"?

It is the direction Red Hat is going with the personal desktop. Fedora Core 1 is what would have been Red Hat 10. Here is the link for more info http://fedora.redhat.com/ . If I try to explain it their will be at least 10 post telling me I have got it wrong and this is what it is.

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by **DJGM** » Thu 06 Nov, 2003 9:19 pm

Well, I've downloaded the ISO's of Fedora Core 1, burned them to a batch of three CD-R discs,
and installed it on my "testbed" PC. The whole install procedure seemed to run fairly smoothly,
and took about 45 minutes in all, from start to finish. Unfortunately, after re-booting into
this new (RedHat sponsored) OS for the first time, it did not work with my monitor.

So, I tried running the Fedora Core installer again, to get it to install other relevant monitor
drivers. That did not work. I ran the installer for a third time, choosing to install a "Generic"
monitor as a last resort. Again, it did not work. Each time, it caused the LED's on the
front of my monitor to flash, but no graphical part of the OS could be displayed.

Right . . . now I'm going to try the copy of Mandrake Linux 9.2, that was covermounted free
on the cover of the latest Linux Format magazine. Hopefully, I'll have more luck with that!

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by **Antony** » Thu 06 Nov, 2003 9:24 pm

DJGM, do you think it would work under Virtual PC?

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by **DJGM** » Thu 06 Nov, 2003 9:26 pm

I don't see any reason why it shouldn't. It would be very slow though.

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by **Antony** » Thu 06 Nov, 2003 9:32 pm

Well, I failed to install Mandrake into VirtualPC three times.
Now, just wondering why I need to install Linux into Virtual PC? I have UNIX already from OS X :jaguar:

(Terminal and X11).

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by **kirvnet** » Thu 06 Nov, 2003 10:17 pm

DJGM wrote:Right . . . now I'm going to try the copy of Mandrake Linux 9.2, that was covermounted free
on the cover of the latest Linux Format magazine. Hopefully, I'll have more luck with that!

I hope you don't have one of those LG CDRom's. :lol:

I have been looking forward to Fedora and have been messing with the beta's. After a slow download and then installing it I am not real impressed with it. It installed fine and everything, but just did not seem to be what I was looking for. I like the gnome support Fedora offers and would like a distro that offers gnome as their default. Anyhow it lasted about 2 hours on my hard drive and SUSE along with KDE went back on.

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by **profman** » Thu 06 Nov, 2003 11:21 pm

The reports say that Red Hat is discontinuing support of the free version of Red Hat Linux and will not develop that product any further. Red Hat wants people to buy their commercial product.

http://www.linuxworld.com/story/37812.htm

http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2003/2003-11-06.htm#7

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by **Mandrake** » Thu 06 Nov, 2003 11:55 pm

The replacement to the free version of Redhat Linux *is* the Fedora project. It's funded by Redhat too. I'm very happy with it, I've got my Radeon 9200 support.

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by **DJGM** » Fri 07 Nov, 2003 7:04 am

kirvnet wrote:
DJGM wrote:Right . . . now I'm going to try the copy of Mandrake Linux 9.2, that was covermounted free
on the cover of the latest Linux Format magazine. Hopefully, I'll have more luck with that!

I hope you don't have one of those LG CDRom's.

My "testbed" PC is an old Compaq Deskpro EN system, with a standard Compaq CD drive.
Funnily enough, it has in fact successfully managed to kill the CD drive . . . stone dead!

My main PC has an LG CD-RW drive. TBH, I'm not willing to allow to be ****ed up!

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by **Edward** » Fri 07 Nov, 2003 7:26 pm

DJGM wrote:
So, I tried running the Fedora Core installer again, to get it to install other relevant monitor
drivers. That did not work. I ran the installer for a third time, choosing to install a "Generic"
monitor as a last resort. Again, it did not work. Each time, it caused the LED's on the
front of my monitor to flash, but no graphical part of the OS could be displayed.

I had this exact same problem the first time I installed SuSE Linux. What happened in my case, was that the software defaulted to 1280x1024 (I used a 15" monitor originally), which the monitor did not support. When I reinstalled it using a smaller resolution (1024x768), everything worked fine afterwards.

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by **DJGM** » Fri 07 Nov, 2003 8:43 pm

The thing is, I was trying to install with a default resolution of 1024x768, and it still made my
monitor go AWOL. I could set it to default at 800x600, but I've been working at 1024x768
for at least 4 years now, I don't really want to have to put up with any lower resolution,
and I'm not willing to go out and buy a new monitor, just to test a new Linux OS!

It may only a 14 inch monitor that I'm using, but it's served me well over the
last 4 years, and I'd to keep working with it, until it finally goes kaput on me!

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by **Edward** » Fri 07 Nov, 2003 9:04 pm

I think some 14" monitors only went as high as 800x600. My 15" could do 1024x768, but the text was very small.

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