Fedora 8 Linux

Installation notes for Fedora Core 8 on my AMD Athlon64 3200+.

The most recent version of Fedora looked to good to stay with the old one.

Download

Via one of the ftp mirrors. Burn to DVD, done.

Basic install

As with my previous installation, I did not do a complete reinstall, but just scraped the old FC6 installation and did a reinstall afterwards.

There are tons of installation instructions out there, so I will only list the stuff, which did not work out of the box.

Tweaking

Network

Currently, my box runs with a direct connection to a PPPoE-modem, a fact, that was not recognized by the installer (altough I guess it is not that uncommon). Installation had to be finished without online-connection therefore.

PPPoE could be configured on the commandline with

pppoe-setup

nVidia driver

Via livna as described on http://www.mjmwired.net. I had to add the noapic option to make it run (as per the nVidia manual) to /etc/grub.conf.

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-49.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet noapic

nVidia driver for the nVidia GeForce 8800GT

To install the graphics driver for the nVidia GeForce 8800GT you neet to enable livna-testing:

<bash> cd /etc/yum.repos.d vi livna-testing.repo </bash>

edit the line <bash> enabled=0 </bash>

to

<bash> enabled=1 </bash>

after that, install the nVidia driver from livna as usual.

CD-RW/DVD+-RW

FC3 and FC6 had issues with my Plextor-PX712A, which are really solved with the new version -finally!

@todo More to come

Conclusions

To call the FC8 install boring would be too negative. It seems really to be a nice and stable system, which installs without problems. The new design is also quite nice (except for the window borders I'd say).