ilia_kr Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 (edited) Hi, I would like to install Fedora 7 on my old pentium 3 pc. According to their wiki, LiveCD won't work for me because my pc isn't i686 and i don't have a DVD drive. So the only option i have is to install through network. The question is, what directory on a mirror server should i chose? So far all my attempts failed for various reasons: pc stalls during download, some bad signature in downloaded packages and other integrity errors. How should i install correctly from the network? Thanks. Edited October 16, 2007 by ilia_kr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonEberger Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 Hi ilia, To tell the truth, I've only done the net installs for FC5 and FC6, both of which have worked well for me. I use the NC State server. But, I use that because it's local. So look at http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html for the mirror list and append /6/architecture/os/ where architecture means i386 prolly. Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 I installed usually by downloading first a base system. Once that one is in place, I went on and downloaded the graphical desktop and all the other nice things. Worked well for me when my dsl connection was still limited to 768 kb/s. Since I have a 6000 DSL connection, I usually do a netinstall in only one step. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 Worked well for me when my dsl connection was still limited to 768 kb/s. Nice speed, mine's only 1MB, so I get about 120kbps. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 At least with ISPs in the US, b=bit and B=byte=8 bits. Speeds are always given in lower case bit notation so: 768 kb/s = 96 KB/s 1mb/s = 125 KB/s Also: Hi, I would like to install Fedora 7 on my old pentium 3 pc. According to their wiki, LiveCD won't work for me because my pc isn't i686 Pentium 3 is i686. In fact, Pentium II is i686 and Pentium is i586. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted September 13, 2007 Author Share Posted September 13, 2007 Pentium 3 is i686. In fact, Pentium II is i686 and Pentium is i586. Well, i have a Fedora 7 Live CD, which runs ok on my other pc (pentium 4) and when i try to load in on pentium 3 i get various buffer I/O errors while loading vmlinuz and the process eventually stalls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 I suspect your old PIII cdrom doesn't like the cd-r/cd-rw media you are using and is having a hard time reading data off the cd. Your hardware is i686. Do you have any other cd media you can try? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted September 14, 2007 Author Share Posted September 14, 2007 I'm downloading a new copy of live cd, hope it will solve the problem. The cd-rom is quiet new, and it doesn't have problems reading CDs in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted October 16, 2007 Author Share Posted October 16, 2007 Yep, i have Fedora 7 installed now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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