alan,

I will give it a try.

thx
--- Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com> wrote:

> mike hoy said:
> > hi
> >
> > i'm running xp and slackware on my laptop. i've
> > recently been told that trying fedora core 2 might
> be
> > the way to go considering how 'everything just
> works
> > with it'.  anyway i've decided to try it
> considering
> > my probs with alsa and my sound card. If nothing
> else
> > I would like to try fedora core as an experiment
> as it
> > might help me the next time we do an installfest.
> > People seem to be wanting this distro i've
> noticed.
> 
> It is popular and worthy of such, IMO.
> 
> > the website shows fedora 3 as the latest. any
> pluggers
> > out there think I should use an older version for
> some
> > reason? One person said to me that version 3 has
> > memory leaking problems and after a few days it
> > crashes.
> 
> I have installed FC3 on only one machine so far but
> it was only running
> for about 30 hours before I shut it down for the
> long weekend.  I'll have
> to look into any reports of memory issues.  Look
> around fedoraforum.org
> and the Fedora sections of linuxquestions.org. 
> That's what I'll go do,
> when I get the chance.
> 
> > and once i do get it installed I will have to add
> an
> > entry to my lilo.conf file and point it to my new
> > install. Question: does fedora allow you to
> install
> > without installing lilo or grub? In slackware I
> can
> > choose not to install lilo, that's why I ask. I
> don't
> > want fedora to force me to install lilo. just
> personal
> > preference really.
> 
> Fedora defaults to the GRUB installer but still
> includes LILO, I think. 
> It does give you several options on where to put the
> bootloader and so on.
>  I don't think you will have any problems with this
> issue.  Just choose
> carefully when the installer asks you about it.
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> 
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