Re: Fedora 19 on 386

2013-04-22 Thread Felix Miata
On 2013-04-22 22:23 (GMT-0700) John Reiser composed: Felix Miata wrote: On 2013-04-22 19:24 (GMT-0400) Fernando Cassia composed: I remember Pentium III machines came from the USB 1.x era, not USB 2.0. So likely your BIOS won't allow you to boot from a USB-anything port using "mass storage

Re: Fedora 19 on 386

2013-04-22 Thread John Reiser
On 04/22/2013 06:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2013-04-22 19:24 (GMT-0400) Fernando Cassia composed: > >> I remember Pentium III machines came from the USB 1.x era, not USB 2.0. >> So likely your BIOS won't allow you to boot from a USB-anything port >> using "mass storage devices". > > PIII pred

Re: Fedora 19 on 386

2013-04-22 Thread Felix Miata
On 2013-04-22 19:24 (GMT-0400) Fernando Cassia composed: I remember Pentium III machines came from the USB 1.x era, not USB 2.0. So likely your BIOS won't allow you to boot from a USB-anything port using "mass storage devices". PIII predates USB2 by only about a year, while USB2 predates P4 by

Re: Fedora 19 on 386

2013-04-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/23/13 03:47, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > > > The 386 install ISO will not fit on a writable DVD. Did you miss this on all the announcements NOTE: All DVD and Live images except KDE Live and SoaS Live are still oversize (as they have been since 19 Alpha TC3). -- The only th

Re: Fedora 19 on 386

2013-04-22 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > The USB port could not boot from a 16 GB jump drive. Chuck, I remember Pentium III machines came from the USB 1.x era, not USB 2.0. So likely your BIOS won't allow you to boot from a USB-anything port using "mass storage devi

Re: Fedora 19 on 386

2013-04-22 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Seg, 2013-04-22 at 12:47 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > My best operational 32 bit machine has an 800 MHz Pentium III, > two USB ports, and 1.5 GB ram. > > It has a network card that can install via PXE but the > install fails when a root cannot be found. > > The USB port could

Fedora 19 on 386

2013-04-22 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
My best operational 32 bit machine has an 800 MHz Pentium III, two USB ports, and 1.5 GB ram. It has a network card that can install via PXE but the install fails when a root cannot be found. The USB port could not boot from a 16 GB jump drive. The 386 install ISO will not fit on a writable DVD