Hello, ive just recently tried to have a play around with linux (fedora 8) and i've installed it on an old PC that ran Microsoft XP on it.
Celeron 2ghz
512mb ram
80GB harddrive
Geforce TI4600
DVD-RW
FloppyDrive

So i downloaded Fedora 8 (i386) and burnit to a disk. I then installed it using the GUI installation, formated, then selected everything (minus optional components) and installed it then upon reboot i get the 'error 15: File not found' at GRUB screen but after running the cd again and upgrading it to i686 it now works.

The problems Im facing is i cant get to the linux desktop (I've been with microsoft since windows 3.1 so this stuffs really new to me) it just takes me to a a command prompt that says
localhost login:
which i can using the root account i provided on instalation which takes me to this prompt.
[root@localhost ~]#
I looked in books for advice no joy, was advised by my girlfriend to use yum or rpm (she uses Debian) but they dont seem to be installed.

[root@localhost ~]#yum
-bash: yum: command not found
[root@localhost ~]#rpm
-bash: rpm: command not found

Shes out of usefull advice and im stuck so is there anybody out there who can help?

Hi,

Welcome to LQ and sorry that your post didn't show right away - for some
reason our spam-checker kicked in.


As for the workings of yum and/or rpm... what does 'echo $PATH' tell you?



Cheers,
Tink

No problem, it says

/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/sbin:
/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin

Bother. The PATH unfortunately looks sane.

Now, I don't use Fedora or RH, so can't say for sure which path those
executables would be installed under if they're installed correctly.

Is locate or find working for you?


Cheers,
Tink

the package manager is one thing which is actually needed for installing programs, for sure. the other thing concerning your non-functioning desktop is strongly depending on the graphics card you are using. what is it?

They do work but i dont know what to do with them.
the find gives me a list of :-
./.bash_history
./.bash_logout
./anaconda-ks.cfg
./install.log.syslog
./.bash_profile
./upgrade.log
./install.log
./.bashrc
./upgrade.log.syslog
./.cshrc
./.tcshrc


The graphics card is a Asus v 8460 ultra/deluxe (equivilent to a Nvidia Geforce 4 TI4600)

find / -type f -name rpm

find / -type f -name yum



Cheers,
Tink

Okay tried entering both of those and it paused for a few seconds then just brought me to the [root@localhost ~]# on the next line down :-(

Hmmm ... so they REALLY didn't get installed. How odd. If you don't mind I'm
moving this to the Fedora forum now, because I haven't got a clue how to install
rpm w/o rpm on that OS.


Cheers,
Tink

Think i figured out what was wrong Celeron Processors run on x86 architechture and i was running i686. At least thats what i think wether it is or isn't i've switched to CentOs 5 x86 and it works with KDE so im happy or as happy as i can be with an OS ive never used before.