[CLUE-Tech] Fedora Core 1 on a 4Gig HDD?

[Stephen Lehr]

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 15:04, Greg Knaddison wrote:
> William wrote:
> 
> >I'd still like to get a fundamental Fedora on this box with it's meager 4Gig HDD.  Can this be
> >done?  How?
> >  
> >
> William,
> 
> This HOWTO may interest you: 
> http://www.simpaticus.com/linux/howto/html-single/Small-Netserver-HOWTO.html
> 
> It should work on an 800MB hard drive which leads me to believe that 
> there is a problem with your installation media and not with the hard 
> drive space.  Have you done the CD integrity test?  If so, do you know 
> that the CDROM works?  I've had copy/install problems that Anaconda made 
> sound like hard-drive problems but they were really caused by CDROM 
> drives that weren't working properly.  Replacing the CDROM allowed these 
> systems to install fully. 
> 
> If you try that and it doesn't work, you could also have a hard-drive 
> problem (bad blocks) kind of stuff...
> 
> Greg

I've found that older cdrom drives may have trouble reading media I
write on another machine using my cd-writer.  I was able to install from
media that failed the RH9 integrity test by replacing an older drive
with an el-cheapo cd-writer.


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