We have an old Pentium 3 at work that doesn't run windows xp or our office software very well. As a project we decided to install Fedora 9 (and hopefully open office and other related programs to replace ms-office that we usually run at work). I downloaded Fedora 9 (6 CDs) and installed it. The installation process was completely text based (not like what is show at http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-fedora9-gnome). I did one Linux course in college and I haven't used it since (4 years ago). I would like the KDE or GENOME (I think I have the terms correct) desktop environment as shown on the ablve mentioned pages. Did I download the wrong version of Fedora or what can I do to get the desktop environment to load? thanks, Herb
Try Fedora 10, that's the current version. http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-fedora-10 also shows the correct ISO to download.
I still dont get prompted for any GUI (like "windows"), I dont get prompted for any choices as far as the interface I want ("windows", "dos prompt" etc.) . The install of Fedora 10 gives me a text (DOS) prompt once installed. WHere do I get KDE or GNOME? (pardon my ignorance of LINUX terms).
Did you use this iso? http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/Live/i686/F10-i686-Live.iso
I instatted, Fedora 9, Fedora 10 (both from 6 Cds), and the live Cd version that you suggested. All I get is Fedora 10 version information and prompting for the login id (root) and password. entering the user id and password gives me the [lroot@ocalhost ~]# prompt. What version of Linux with GNOME or KDE will run on a P3 866MHz with (I am pretty sure) 256Mb RAM. Its a Dell dimension L866r. Its an older computer that, I think, should run LINUX with a "windows environment" and Open Office.
You could ty Xubuntu ( http://www.xubuntu.org/ ). The XFCE desktop uses less resources that GNOME or KDE.
