OK, so I determined that both Ubuntu and Fedora Core 7 (rescue CD) could see my network cards. Ubuntu could see the one on the mother board, and Fedora Core 7 could see both. But Ubuntu couldn’t connect to my network via DHCP.

So I decided to use Fedora. But when I tried to download via http, it demanded a domain and a folder on that domain. When I input both, it insisted on inputting double slashes between domain and folder, even when I deleted them from both ends, so naturally, the repository couldn’t be found.

So I decided to download the Live CD. When I did so, it turned out to be larger than 700 meg, which meant that I couldn’t burn it on to a CD–I had to use a DVD. If I’d know that, I would have simply downloaded the entire DVD iso.

The problem is, I’ve never burned a DVD (though I have a DVD burner) so that means that I have to go out to wherever, and buy blank DVDs. Why couldn’t Fedora put a Live install on a CD? It wouldn’t have been much smaller…

[Update a few minutes later]

I should add that I suspect that my earlier problems were due to attempting to install a 32-bit version of the OS on an AMD 64 chip. So perhaps a solution is to burn a 64-bit version of Core 6…