Re: Synchronet on Fedora Core 4
  By: Sam Alexander to Rob Swindell on Wed Jun 22 2005 01:37 pm

 >   Re: Synchronet on Fedora Core 4
 >   By: Rob Swindell to Sam Alexander on Sat Jun 18 2005 03:09 am
 > 
 > Hey Rob,
 > 
 > Actually Jason Scott was telling everyone he was sending free copies to
 > everyone who he interviewed -- so I'd assume you had a free one coming.

Cool. But I've moved since he interviewed me. I'll have to send him my new
address. :-)

 > I'm surprised there's not more buzz about this on the BBS scene since it
 > totally tells the story of the hobby we all love.
 > 
 > As for me becoming a new Synchronet sysop - I tried to instal Fedora Core 4
 > but it keeps bombing.  i think my CD-ROM is flaking out.   It will happen
 > soon though.

I had problems intalling FC3 (like many people). I had to run the installer
with "ide=nodma" for it to work. It takes a really long time to
install from
the CD-ROM drive that way, but it does work, eventually. :-)

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