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Installing Fedora Core 4

I became the proud owner of 2 7500s. Their condition was fair. I took both of themm to make one laptop.

I decided to make linux my only os on the machine. The install went great. X windows didn't work on the first attempt. To make X windows play nicely you need to add the following kernel option:

vga=791

During the install at the boot prompt enter linux vga=791

During the first boot of the system you will need to pass vga=791 as a kernel option

Once booted you will need to add the option to grub.

That's the only gotcha I found.

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