I was trying to install Fedore Core 4 but I am not ABLE to be successful neither from a CD nor DVD.I am recieving an error message as "Kernel panic-not syncing: drivers/ide/pci/piix.c:232:spin_lock(drivers/ide/ide c:c03dc66 already locked by drivers/ide/ide-iops c/1235(Not tainted)". I have earlier installed Red hat Linux 9.0 on my system only.My configuration is 1.7 Ghz Pentium 4 Mercury MOTHERBOARD intel chipset,256MB ram.Please help me in this regardTry a live CD to see if it is hardware related. You MAY also want to try another distribution.

www.distrowatch.comi have been USING Linspire Five-O, its seems to be the easiest to learn when used to windows, it networks very well with windows and linux enviroments.

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http://www.linspire.com/I am a Linspire Insider as well!! Lots of people knock it, but they are ones who either are Linux gurus, or know nothing except what they read. For a newbie it makes the transition pretty painless.

I installed a complete version - operating system, all apps and all updates in 11 minutes last night. Compare that with 2 + hours for Windows then installing all the apps + spyware, adware, virus removers, etc.