Question on Dell 700m - RHEL 3 & Fedora 4

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Vu Pham wrote:
> I were trying to install Linux to my Dell notebook Inspiron 700m. This
> notebook uses IDE drive.
>
> My first attempt was to install Fedora Core 4. I borrowed an FC4 DVD from a
> friend of mine ( which is from a SAMS book ). The installations went well
> without any problem but after the installation, the system booted with some
> error relating to disk format.
>
> I tried two times, one with a default installation ( that FC4 uses Volume
> Group ) and the second time with manual partitioning which I did not use the
> volume group and just set the simple case of three partitions boot, root and
> swap. Both installation ended up with partition/disk error at the first boot
> after installation.
>
> I tried with RHEL 3.0 ( update 4 ) and I did not experience any problem.
>
> Is it some problem with the DVD ? Or is there something special parms ( like
> disk parms )I need to enter ?

Hard to say because you didn't really describe the error at all.  There
is/was a bug in FC4 that caused it to barf if you had a DVD in the drive
at boot time on intel chipset based systems.  Its been fixed for about 2
months now though.

> This notebook has a wireless controller Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG and cannot
> see it with RHEL. Does RHEL or FC4 support this controller ?

Is that a centrino based wifi NIC?  If so, then no, its not natively
supported in any RH/FC release.  I think there are beta drivers available
somewhere though.

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