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hnugz:
I bought a new pc, e6400 with gigabyte ds3 board which only has 1 ide slot.  I have 2hdds on the ide slot, and 2 cd-roms on an ide expansion card.  I tried installing fedora 5 but I got an installation error message at boot (it referred me to some website about installing, i forget the exact error).  I also downloaded virtual pc and tried to install it from an iso and from the cd roms in windows.  Still no go.

The furthest ive gotten is when installing from the iso, i get the install boot screen, hit enter, but then it just stops during the initial tests.

Is it even possible to install if the cdrom is on an ide expansion card?

hm_murdock:
Yes... provided that Linux supports your card.

H_TeXMeX_H:
can't you use a better configuration ? You might wanna try knoppix as it has the most sophisticated hardware detection of any distro, if it won't work nothing will (usually)

Pathos:

--- Quote from: hnugz ---I also downloaded virtual pc and tried to install it from an iso and from the cd roms in windows.  Still no go.
--- End quote ---

your hardware won't have anything to do with this since vpc emulates very generic hardware.

hnugz:
Well I tried removing the ide card altogether to install.  I can now start the installation through virtual pc but it keeps stopping at the same place when beginning the installation.  I get an error about a soft lockup, specifically the line:

BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!

which is followed by a bunch of stuff I don't really understand.  It just stops at that point.  This is with Fedora.

With Knoppix it goes to the penguin when starting the hdd install but then just sits at that point as well.

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