Thanks for the reply
well the first thing was during the install it refused to connect to the Amahi repositry i tried sevearl times but each time it failed and i let Fedora complete its installation but it still could not connct to the repositry so i posted a question on this forum and got a reply suggesting that i check that i can see the files in the repo at
http://f12.amahi.org/i386 ?
This i could so the next idea was to use the instructions on the self install page ,this i did with a new install of fedora but again i got problems it could not find rubygems-passenger rpm so i tried again only to get the same error .again i posted on this forum and received a reply sugesting that i try entering this (gem install -v=2.3.4 --no-ri --no-rdoc rails) in a terminal as root but this time a new error appeared ( ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve). So tried again with the same results.
Since then i have tried to use the installation trouble shooter that appears in this forum but i have got no further as i type this i am in the process of burning a new dvd of Fedora12 (a fresh download ) as i am hoping the problems are caused by a faulty download i will know shortly and will post the results.
I currently have windows home server running on my sever but i am quite keen to try linux so i thought i would do a trial install on another pc that i have before making the leap .
I am hoping that i get there quite soon as i have spent a lot of time so far and the learning curve is steep .
when it is all working will i be able to control it using remote desktop from a windows machine ?