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Fedora Core 3 installation on an old IBM PII

I encountered the following:

  1. The Mitsumi drive in the PC resulted in a kernel panic. This is a known bug in the Linux kernel.
  2. When the installer (Anaconda) wanted to access the harddisks, this resulted in an assertion fail (heads>0 and heads < 63 both failed, how is this possible?). Clicking Cancel every time solved this. Don't click Ignore, this will end the installation proces.
  3. Before yum will work, the GPG key needs to be installed. Do this using rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

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