Fedora 16 fails to install; Core 5 installs without problems

[bolognese]

Hi everybody,

About 6 years ago I got myself a Fedora core 5 system. After some time other things became more important.
Now I am back to get it working again, so I downloaded and installed the latest live version 16. Unfortunately it failed to install and I suspect it's the problem with the bios and gpt. I tried many things like passing nogpt to the kernel, before installing and formatting the drive with a windows installation cd. But in vain.
I went back to Fedora core 5 and now that is up and running, so there is no hardware defect.
I tried to use the package updater, but that failed. Which is part of "no longer supported", I suppose. What can I do?

Thanks in advance.

B.

[bob]

256MB DDR

There's a problem! You really need 768MB of Ram, minimum.

• Minimum RAM for text-mode: 768 MiB
• Minimum RAM for graphical: 768 MiB
• Recommended RAM for graphical: 1152 MiB

[bolognese]

Sorry. That's old information. Ik have to update that. There is 1 Gb installed.
I also had to replace the processor with a Duron. What was that command again to retrieve the hardware info from the system.

[bob]

Used to be hwbrowser, I believe. So, if that's not the issue, where's the installation fail coming in? Does it seem to install and then just not boot or are there any other clues?

[bolognese]

Again I tried to install Fedora 16, relying on the partition table and file system that was created during the Fedora 5 installation and now I made.
Below is a part of the hardware configuration, made through lspci.
After updating the system with all available packages and shutting down the computer I had trouble to connect to the internet the next day. In the network configuration "cable unplugged" was shown. In lspci there was no nic shown.
Using another nic did not solve the disconnection from the internet problem, so the hardware was not defect. Bios reset to factory settings: no result. Removing the soundblaster soundcard: nothing changed. Then I put the nic in the slot of the soundcard and the soundcard where the nic was in: bingo.
I can listen to an audio cd, but not from all 5 speakers, except when I configure the sound device in system settings and only the first time I click a music track. Should I address that problem to another thread?

My working hardware configuration:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo
KT266/A/333 AGP]
00:06.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20276
(MBFastTrak133 Lite) (rev 01)
00:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A
IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [iOHCI-Lynx]
00:09.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 50)
00:09.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 50)
00:09.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21041
[Tulip Pass 3] (rev 21)
00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a)
00:0f.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 0a)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 23)
00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 23)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2
Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)

Jos van der Burgt

[bob]

If you have installed F16 correctly and now just have a sound problem then yes, I'd start another thread on that problem.