Has anyone successfully install Fedora Core 5?

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vazexqi

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The list (http://www.parallels.com/en/products/guest_os/) of supported guest OS does not list Fedora Core 5 as being officially supported but there have been some threads where users have installed Fedora Core 5 on the Windows version of Parallels (http://forum.parallels.com/thread27.html).

I tried configuring my MacBook Pro (2 GHz,2 GB) with a 8 GB, 768 MB setup for the OS type of "Other Linux" and managed to finish the installation of Fedora Core 5. However, the post installation fails and here is the screen shot of the console (http://homepage.mac.com/vazexqi/images/dump.png). I suspect that it is not detecting the graphics driver but I cannot verify this.

With the same guest OS configurations, I managed to get Fedora Core 4 up and running with network support. And everything seems to be working fine as far as I can tell. It runs as fast as it does using VMWare on my Windows machine.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
 
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RAM size crashes boot

With a 700+ RAM size the installer will boot fine, but the new install will fail. When I ajusted RAM to 512, Fedora Core 5 booted fine.

What's happening Parallels?
 
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The RAM issue isn't a parallels issue.
<comment: it would be nice if parallels bothered responding on the forum as they don't respond to emails. sad thing as their product is very good. support sucks.>

The RAM issue relates to the intel chip. you need to change the grub script in the boot loader. to do this, boot linux with 512mb, then edit the /etc/grub.conf file. on the kernel line, add
mem=nopentium
then you're good to go and can boot with as much ram as you like.
 
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vazexqi said:
Thank you for the responds.

So I tried everything again, this time using an expanding hard disk (max 10 GB) and with 256 MB of RAM. Everything installed fine and it works fine now after the restart. Even networking with airport is working. :)

Now that everything is working, I tried bumping up the memory to 512 MB for the sake of trying and it still works. Tried 768 MB and it gives the same errors. 700 MB gives errors as well. 600 MB gives errors as well. 516 MB works though. I did not try other amounts but there seems to be a limit to how much RAM you can allocate to Fedora Core 5.

This is an interesting problem since Fedora Core 4 does not seem to exhibit it.
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Thanks to your trial and errot I was able to get my Fefora Core 5 install working as well. I had similar problems until I reduced the RAM allocation below 512MB.
 
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