I'm still trying to figure out what version of Fedora I have. When it boots up I see someing like 2.x.x.x or something.. I SWEAR I installed 3 Hmmm, I also thought I could just open a terminal window and type like ver or version or something... guess not...

You probably saw the version of your Linux kernel. The command 'uname -r' should show you the same.

'cat /proc/version' should give youi the info you're looking for....

[dgentry@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.9-1.667 (bhcompile@tweety.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)) #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:25 EST 2004
[dgentry@localhost ~]$

uname -a shows the following
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-1.667 #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:25 EST 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

Whenever Installed linux I've always picked the i386 versions. With the uname -a I see i686 athlon. Should I choose the i686 versions? Seems to me I have tried that before and never could get anything to work. The i386 versions always work it seems to me.

Thanks for you help.
Doug..

and never fear, I am looking these questions up as I ask them and get replies back also.
Sometimes a Virtualdr user will respond and explaine something that makes it just click !

I'd say you are running Linux kernel version 2.6.9-1.667

Your distribution is Fedora Core 3 version 3.4.2-6.fc3

EDIT: I might be wrong on this, but I think both the i586 and i686 instruction sets are expansions of the old i386 instruction set. So running i386 on CPU's supporting i586 or i686 should work, but not visa versa....