linux<fedora> help please

[leet1]

Anyone that knows anything about this distro please a little help :D

Fedora and my Compaq Presario 2100 laptop<amd 2400/30 gig hd/512 megs>



Install went great, so I rebooted and it started up, began to list things and say <ok> next to them, but then it stopped at pcimcia, I turned the computer off, back on, starts going through everything, except this time it gets to firewire says <ok> and just stops like the last time

Anyone know what my problem is and if its fixable? Thanks

[monkeydo_jb]

I'm downloading it at work right now to install on an IBM Thinkpad.
I'll let you know.



-jeff

[leet1]

Ah, great, I'll be back this afternoon to check on your progress. :D

[leet1]

Why was this moved into mac/apple software? nothing to do with a mac :confused:

[monkeydo_jb]

I loaded Fedora just now, and it booted w/out a hitch.

The work laptop I put it on is a little older, so that probably explains part of it.

It went right past PCMCIA just fine, but I don't have firewire to see if that's
the problem. Sorry I wasn't much help.

Did you try to reinstall and choose different options?




-jeff

[leet1]

Originally posted by monkeydo_jb
It went right past PCMCIA just fine, but I don't have firewire to see if that's
the problem. Sorry I wasn't much help.

Did you try to reinstall and choose different options?



ah, no problem man, thanks for keeping me informed anyways, glad it worked for you, hehe.

I'm going to reinstall it pretty soon, just got home not too long ago.

Hope this distro is as good as most people have been saying and worth this trouble, hehe

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by leet1
Why was this moved into mac/apple software? nothing to do with a mac :confused:

"Software Discussion and Help" is the best category for this, regardless of the Mac forum.

[leet1]

Well, I had the same problem again. Found out someone else had the same problem, this is their post, but I don't know anything about booting into level 3 or how to disable pcmcia


>I also had to change my boot into level 3, and disable
> pcmcia, since that service was hanging and preventing
> me from booting. I haven't tried any devices in pcmcia
> yet, so I don't know if it will work or not. After
> that, everything booted fine. I ran startx, and X
> started correctly.


If I could figure out how to make it skip over pcmcia, I would be fine, since I don't want to use pcmcia under linux anyways.

:(

[monkeydo_jb]

That should be simple enough.

Simply press I when it tells you to for interactive setup. Then, it will prompt
you before starting each service.


Press enter to take defaults on everything, but try changing PCMCIA
to No.

Once it's booted, go to services and stop PCMCIA from starting.



Viola!



-jeff

[leet1]

well, after four times pressing I, it still won't go into interactive setup :(

There a way to add a command as it boots up to enter interactive setup? No clue why it won't let me in by pressing I

[monkeydo_jb]

To make sure, you're holding shift and pressing I? Try hitting enter, too.


I just did this w/out any problems....



-jeff