I recently decided to give Linux a try, and started with Fedora Core 1 on my ancient Pentium 166 with a Panasonic 2x CD-ROM (CR-562), which is attached to the SoundBlaster 16. Unfortunately, I''m not getting past the installation stage. I followed the instructions and made a boot disk to start installation. I selected "Local CDROM" as the media containing packages to be installed. From that point, Fedora can''t find the device, and asks for a driver disk. Google turns up a lot of discussions about this problem, but I can''t make sense of them. Most of them date back to ''94-''99, and none of the threads seem to conclude with a successful install. Can anyone help me?

Did you read the Harware Requirements here? I very much doubt you will get Fedora to run on something that old; definitely you won''t get X running. Can''t help with the CD-ROM problem though.

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quote: Original post by Useless Hacker
Did you read the Harware Requirements here? I very much doubt you will get Fedora to run on something that old; definitely you won''t get X running. Can''t help with the CD-ROM problem though.

Oops! My PC failed all the requirements except for HDD. Guess it will remain a DOS/Win98 nostalgic games machine. Well, that''s one way to solve my problem - get another PC!

Thanks for your help. Looks like the Useless Hacker is not so useless afterall.

You should be able to get Slackware or Debian running on something like that, or one of the [Free|Open|Net]BSDs. I have OpenBSD running on a P100 sitting next to me that has ran happily for months as a firewall. Kinda sad, since I used to play Half-Life on it, and now it''s only good for router duty.

Running X might be a challenge, but you could just set it up as a terminal to another computer and use it for a glorified typewriter/web browser.

Heck, with Debian (and the BSDs, and probably slackware) you can boot from a floppy and do a complete install over a network, if you have broadband (or are sitting on the same Uni network as a mirror ).