On 10/30/2004 12:35:23 AM, Jin Malm wrote: Put the HD from the old pentium into your P4 and install onto that. Then put HD back into old pentium. kudzu will probably handle everything. Linux is good that way - especially with kudzu. Unless you build your kernel for a specific arch (ie athlon) it will boot any i386. I *think* fedora's kernel does want pentium, but I'm not positive - but that's not a problem for you.

Jin Malm wrote: The Windows CD, presumably, is a pressed CD. The Fedorea CDs are CD-Rs or CD-RWs. Many CD-ROM drives that old had difficulty reading CD-Rs, and very few of them could read CD-RWs. Even if they could read the discs, often they took too long to decide there was something there. So the BIOS would skip the CD and try other discs. You could skip the entire issue by temporarily upgrading the Pentium to a modern CD-ROM, or check compatibility with the drive. If you have an OS still on the drive, you could watch what happens (especially as far as time is concerned) as you put the disks in. I have one drive and motherboard where, if you insert a CD-RW, the drive spins up, reads it, then spins down again, and won't spin up again fast enough for the BIOS. So if you want to boot from CD-RW, you have to insert it at just the right point so that the drive is still spun up when the BIOS is ready to boot. Or, as has been suggested, there *are* other methods of getting data onto the hard drive. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | This was, apparently, beyond her ken. So far beyond @westexe.demon.co.uk | her ken that she was well into barbie territory. | -- J. D. Baldwin