Fedora / Red Hat Linux Installation problem

**neerajvaidya** · 02-02-2007, 02:15 PM

hi, i have Intel Core 2 Duo processor at 1.86Ghz on Intel 965 Chipset with 300GB hd (SATA), 1GB DDR2 Ram, nVidia 7100GE Force graphic card. iam not able to install Fedora either from a DVD or CD. its asking me for device driver disk which i dont knw..even thou i tried all the available disks, still unable to load..please help ..this is the first time iam trying to install and learn Linux..i have windows Xp sp2 as my operating system.

**mechdave** · 02-03-2007, 04:14 AM

neerajvaidya,
Have you enabled boot from cdrom in the system bios?
Most new motherboards will boot directly from the dvd or cd rom.

**neerajvaidya** · 02-03-2007, 05:48 AM

Hi Mechdave,
yes i have enabled the boot from cd rom in the BIOS but of no use..just want to knw if Intel 965 mother board (core 2 duo) processor support the linux installation.?? i have a SATA hard drive (300GB)

**rkapur** · 07-09-2007, 10:46 AM

set the BIOS settings for the SATA controller to either "enhanced" or "native" mode.
Hope this works .....

Regards
Rishi kapur
RHCE
in.rishi@gmail.com

**glennzo** · 07-09-2007, 11:55 AM

Did you burn the iso to a RW disk? Burning to a RW is problematic. Use writable disks only.

**Schotty** · 07-09-2007, 09:09 PM

Originally Posted by glennzo

Did you burn the iso to a RW disk? Burning to a RW is problematic. Use writable disks only.

Actually I keep most of the distros that I admin or use at home on RW dvds or cds. I have yet really to have an issue that wasn't caused by a scratch or other physical damage.

CentOS
RHEL
Fedora
Linspire
Ubuntu

No issues thus far (going 3 years or so now with this tactic).

**vishstar** · 09-07-2007, 09:29 AM

Hi
I m new to linux with very little knowledge. Currently I installed Fedora 7 on Intel 965GM chipset Core 2Duo T7100 with 2GB ram. Everything went fine . The only thing not working is xen , integrated web cam. I guess I will try and it will get fix.
ALso desktop effects are even not working on turning this it Fedora7 get a kind of hang . It is not working key board and touchpad don't work. I guess it is due to no driver for 965 chipset. that is causing problem.
Otherwise leaving everything is working Ok
Oops I have yet not tried wireless.