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Revision as of 21:21, 22 November 2007
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.
- 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.
Tweaking
- 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).
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-49.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet noapic
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).
