Fedora Core 5 Final Notes

• John Carney originally submitted this OS as working
• An anonymous user reported a successful text-mode HTTP install by booting from the rescue CD
• Patrick Johansson reported that the machine will not boot with more than 624 MB of RAM allocated
• Marcel Ziswiler said that for optimal perfoamce:
  Allocate at least 512MB RAM to the Linux VM. In order to get a resolution above 1024x768 you will need to use the universal VESA driver instead of the automatically detected S3 Trio64 one. Only a color depth of thousands of colors is supported. Make sure you have the Microsoft Virtual PC Service Pack 1 installed. To improve performance use the -usehostdiskcache command-line parameter.
• Another anonymous user reports that:
  1) The mouse is misdetected as IBM Trackpount. Add kernel option psmouse.proto=imps resolves problem.
  
  2) Sound not working. Add "modprobe snd-sb16" to /etc/rc.local
• Andrew Huey was able to make this OS work by booting to runlevel 3 and changing DefaultDepth from 24 to 16 in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

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