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From: graham1949 on 19 Jun 2008 01:26 Hi All I am new to Linux and trying to install REd Hat Linux 3 & Ferora as from the bible by Christopher Negus the Istallation sftware does not find my hard drive and request a driver. The hard drive is Western Dig Corp WD2500JD, I have downloaded the driver from their site and attempted to use the XP version as my Dell is XP, to no avail. System Dell 8400 running XP, Hard drive partioned to accomodate Linux. Any helpwould be greatly appreciated Graham
From: Dances With Crows on 21 Jun 2008 10:35 graham1949 staggered into the Black Sun and said: > I am new to Linux and trying to install Red Hat Linux 3 & Fedora as > from the bible by Christopher Negus. The [installation software] does > not find my hard drive and [requests] a driver. RHEL 3 is kind of old, since the current release is 5. The rule of thumb here is to make sure the distro you're trying to install is the same age or newer than the motherboard you're using. > Dell 8400, Hard drive partioned to accomodate Linux. What's the SATA chipset on this thing? Get the latest distro (CentOS 5.1 or so) and try that. Since you're a n00b, I would not recommend using Fedora, since that goes out of date too quickly and tends to have more bugs than the stable RHEL/CentOS versions. If all else fails, find the nearest local Linux User Group, and take the box to one of their periodic Installfests. Or find your local LUG's mailing list, and post there asking for help. It's highly probable that if you offer someone on that list beer and pizza, they'll gladly help you install whatever distro you want at a time that's convenient for you. HTH, -- "Dreams? Best leave dreams to those that can afford them." --Aunt Cordelia, _Wizard and Glass_, Stephen King My blog: http://crow202.dyndns.org/wordpress/ Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
From: F8BOE on 22 Jun 2008 02:18 graham1949 wrote: > Hi All > I am new to Linux and trying to install REd Hat Linux 3 & Ferora as > from the bible by Christopher Negus > the Istallation sftware does not find my hard drive and request a > driver. > The hard drive is Western Dig Corp WD2500JD, I have downloaded the > driver from their site and attempted to use the XP version as my Dell > is XP, to no avail. > System Dell 8400 running XP, Hard drive partioned to accomodate Linux. > Any helpwould be greatly appreciated > Graham Hello, What an OOOOOOOOPS! RH 3 is really out of date since last realease was RH 7 some years ago and the RH project became RHEnterpriseLinux (payware) and Fedora (ex Fedora Core). I'd recommend you to take a look at distrowatch .com and get any newest distro such as MDV2008.1, Debian 4.0r3, OpenSuSE 11.0. Fedora 9 is not good for noobs and X/K/Ubuntu sucks. BSD is a bit complicated but you can give them a try too. For older PI/PII combos with not much RAM, a light distro such as Damn Small Linux can do the job. Any combo better than a CeleronII with more than 256 MB RAM can easily run any modern distro under the Gnome desktop or KDE with no gimmick. Ciao +
From: General Schvantzkopf on 22 Jun 2008 10:50 On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:26:45 -0700, graham1949 wrote: > Hi All > I am new to Linux and trying to install REd Hat Linux 3 & Ferora as from > the bible by Christopher Negus > the Istallation sftware does not find my hard drive and request a > driver. > The hard drive is Western Dig Corp WD2500JD, I have downloaded the > driver from their site and attempted to use the XP version as my Dell is > XP, to no avail. > System Dell 8400 running XP, Hard drive partioned to accomodate Linux. > Any helpwould be greatly appreciated > Graham I assume you mean RHEL3, it's way to old to install on modern hardware. In general RHEL and it's free clone, are not welss suited to desktop hardware because of their outdated kernels. If you do use RHEL or CentOS the pick version 5.1 (the latest version of CentOS5) or 5.2 if you have access to RHEL (which I suspect that you don't). Even if you do use CentOS5.1 you will have to compile your own kernel in order to get all of your hardware to work. You didn't say which version of Fedora you tried, the current version is Fedora 9 which should install just fine on your hardware. Fedora 8 should also work fine and it's more mature that Fedora 9 so it might be a better choice for you. Forget about anything older than Fedora 8, the older versions are no longer supported.
From: Whoever on 22 Jun 2008 14:26
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, F8BOE wrote: > graham1949 wrote: > >> Hi All >> I am new to Linux and trying to install REd Hat Linux 3 & Ferora as >> from the bible by Christopher Negus >> the Istallation sftware does not find my hard drive and request a >> driver. >> The hard drive is Western Dig Corp WD2500JD, I have downloaded the >> driver from their site and attempted to use the XP version as my Dell >> is XP, to no avail. >> System Dell 8400 running XP, Hard drive partioned to accomodate Linux. >> Any helpwould be greatly appreciated >> Graham > > > Hello, > > What an OOOOOOOOPS! RH 3 is really out of date since last realease was RH 7 > some years ago and the RH project became RHEnterpriseLinux (payware) and > Fedora (ex Fedora Core). Please ignore this misleading and wrong information. Wrong: the last release of Red Hat before the "Enterprise" series was Red Hat 9 (not 7) and misleading because the original poster was probably referring to Red Hat Enterprise v.3 -- which is still supported and receives updates. Red Hat continues to update the kernel on RHEL 3, so support of newer hardware continues to expand. It does not have the same level of support of newer hardware that the newer releases have, but it should not be dismissed out of hand. Nevertheless, unless you have a specific reason to use RHEL3 (eg. some software that is only supported under RHEL3), I would not recommend it. |