[vox-tech] Fwd: Install Issues

[Jeff Newmiller]

Bill Kendrick wrote:
> Pat send this before successfully subscribing to the list.
> Fwd'ing it along for him.
> 
> 
> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:05:46 -0700
> From: Pat <drummerpat at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Install Issues
> To: vox-tech at lists.lugod.org
> 
> Hey Lugod,
> 
> I am new to Linux and after experiencing it in the computer labs in 
> Kemper Hall on campus decided to give it a shot at home on my AMD Athlon 
> 64 Bit Dual Core machine. I have now tried Mandriva Spring 2007 (DVD), 
> Mandriva 2007 (CD), Fedora 7(DVD), and after a suggestion in your IRC 
> channel I downloaded Knoppix to see if that would work. Every single one 
> of these distributions gets me to the screen where I tell it to start 
> the install (or to start Linux in Knoppix's case) and when I tell it to 
> begin it loads a few files and then freezes. Any suggestions on why this 
> might be and how to work around it? Thanks in advance for anything you 
> guys can do.

I have zero experience with 64-bit machines... but two things occur to me:

a) You don't mention which architecture your distros were targeted to...
but I know there are separate 64-bit binary versions.  My preference is
Ubuntu (well, Kubuntu), but I think they all offer separate versions.

b) There are a variety of boot options that can be specified at startup.
Play with Knoppix options (at the VERY FIRST prompt) to get a handle on 
which ones might be a problem for your hardware.  If the hardware is
"compatible enough" with 32-bit architectures, this might be all you need
(though I would hope you would want the optimizations of using a 64-bit
operating system).  Google for your motherboard and Linux... someone may
offer specific guidance.

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