[Discuss] Fedora 8 and new system works straight out of the box.

[John Blomfield]

Richard Body wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 19:00 -0800, Lloyd Budd wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:24 PM, John Blomfield <jabfield at shaw.ca> wrote:
>>     
>>>  My System:
>>>
>>>  AMD Athlone 64x2 5200 2.6GHz
>>>  ASUS M2N-SLI-DELUX motherboard
>>>  4 GB Ram
>>>  ASUS Extream N7300GT/HTD GeForce Video Card
>>>  3 x 250 GB SATA 3GHz Western Digital HD's
>>>       
>> Hi John,
>>
>> I really appreciate you sharing this type of information. Its really
>> useful to know what configurations work out of the box.
>>
>>     
> I was also able to get Fedora-8 working on a new system; I bought it
> this weekend from Gizmo's (Langford)- I wasn't sure about the x86_64
> architecture, but their Linux guru , aka Richard,  watches that their
> packages usually support Linux, (and they offer discounts if you don't
> take Windows). 
>
> The system I got:
>
> AMD Athlone 64x2 4200+ 2.2GHz
> MSI K9N6 SGM-V motherboard / onboard 128MB video 
> 2 GB DDR2 667 Ram
> 1 x 500 GB SATA  Western Digital HD
> 20X DVDRW Dual layer Burner
>
> runs fine although I had a few teething problems with the DVD burner.
>
> When I got the computer home I booted it up with an old Fedora-7-Live CD
> and was relieved that even though the CD had code for the old x86
> architecture, it ran without any noticeable problem on the new x86_64
> mode. Using the Fedora-7-Live CD, I downloaded (overnight) a file
> Fedora-8-x64_86-Live.iso from fedoraproject.org. The file was 830MB, way
> too big to be an ordinary iso9660 format, I thought. And indeed when I
> tried to dvdrecord it to a blank DVD+RW, something went wrong, and the
> computer was unable to recognize the resulting disc as something it
> could boot from. 
Its easy to burn the iso image as a ordinary data file rather than an 
image file unless you are paying attention. I've done this a few times now!

John
> I then tried gnome's nautilus cd-burner which was also
> on the Fedora-7-Live package. The result is nicely bootable, and when
> I pressed its "Install to Hard Disk" icon on the resulting Desktop, I
> got an easy and painless install of a quite usable, minimal system. I'm
> gradually adding my favorite software packages from fedora's network
> repositories. 
>
> 	So I can confirm John's finding that x86_64 architecture holds few
> terrors for the Fedora-8 user (so far).
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