Re: Install 17 to a dinosaur

2012-06-12 Thread Beartooth
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

Re: Install 17 to a dinosaur

2012-06-11 Thread Beartooth
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

Re: Install 17 to a dinosaur

2012-06-10 Thread Jussi Lehtola
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

Re: Install 17 to a dinosaur

2012-06-10 Thread Fernando Cassia
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

Re: Install 17 to a dinosaur

2012-06-10 Thread Ranjan Maitra
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

Install 17 to a dinosaur

2012-06-10 Thread Beartooth
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