On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:58:08 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> Brand names and model numbers are meaningless to me, not having owned a
> brand-name desktop machine since 1987 and always assembling my own.
Well, that's one of the differences, doubtless the many
differences, between you and
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 15:15:54 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> I don't know how old your machine is, but I had no trouble installing
> F17 onto a nine-year-old Dell Precision 650. I started with a live LXDE
> CD spin (booted from the only USB port that allows for booting) and was
> running fine within
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:45:37 + (UTC)
Beartooth wrote:
> I've been trying to install Fedora 17 to an old Dell
> PowerEdge 1420 (which began life as a server, with two drives
> mirroring one another; but that's not so now). The CD drive doesn't
> recognize DVDs; it can't seem to imagine bo
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Beartooth wrote:
> to an old Dell PowerEdge
> 1420 (
>
Brand names and model numbers are meaningless to me, not having owned a
brand-name desktop machine since 1987 and always assembling my own.
So why instead of brand names and model numbers, don´t you say "A 5
I don't know how old your machine is, but I had no trouble installing
F17 onto a nine-year-old Dell Precision 650. I started with a live
LXDE CD spin (booted from the only USB port that allows for booting) and
was running fine within a couple of minutes or three.
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:45:37 +000
I've been trying to install Fedora 17 to an old Dell PowerEdge
1420 (which began life as a server, with two drives mirroring one
another; but that's not so now). The CD drive doesn't recognize DVDs; it
can't seem to imagine booting from an external USB drive that does;
trying to run a
