No questions here, just a warning or admitting I do not know what I am doing.
On Wednesday of this week I went to Intrex in Chapel Hill and bought all the parts I needed for a shinny new Intel Core 2 Duo box. The mother board is an Intel DG965wh, with a 2.13 GHz Core 2 Duo (E6400), two GB no name DDR2 RAM, 320 GB Seagate SATAII hard drive, NEC DVD burner, case, keyboard and mouse. I have a Sharp LCD monitor and an old ATI Radon X800 based video card to use in the new machine. This is the first Intel Inside box I have built in a long time. I have been using AMD products from when Intel came out with the Pentium 4.
I burned a copy of Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS (Dapper Drake) and started to do an install. The system would hang on uncompressing the Linux kernel. So I grabbed my Fedora Core 5 DVD and it hung as well. Now it is time for a sanity check. I loaded a copy of Windows XP Pro, without problems. I also loaded a copy of Windows Vista RC1. Vista also loaded (what a -- never mind).
Now I know the computer works, but Linux is giving me problems. I downloaded and burned Fedora Core 6 test 3 (version 5.92) and tried an install. Same problem as Core 5 had. The next step was praying to Google. I loaded the newest mother board BIOS and tried Ubuntu and Fedora 5.92 again. There was no change in the Ubuntu install. I got past the hang using Fedore 5.92 (I have not tried 5 again), but the install could not find the DVD. I thought this was odd being it booted off of the DVD. After more Google praying, I bought a USB/Firewire external DVD drive. Booting from the USB DVD got me through the 5.92 install after a couple of tries (if I selected the options I wanted, the install would hang). I now have Linux up and running, but I cannot use the DVD that is connected to the mother board's IDE port, and X is only working in 640x480.
If somebody has better luck please let me know. If somebody needs help to get this far, let me know.
Later Charles Fischer -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
