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On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 09:49 +0000, James Fidell wrote: > Jason Witcher wrote: > > On 20/11/2007, James Fidell <james@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> (Hint for anyone > >> considering installing Fedora 8: Don't.) > > > > Any particular reason? I'd be particularly interested to find out why not as > > I was planning to install it on my laptop and would have if it didn't have > > an iffy CD/DVD drive! > > So far I've tried to install it on my laptop and a 2.4GHz P4 box put > together out of stuff I have lying around. > > The laptop previously had Fedora 7 installed and after sorting out one > or two niggles (it hung in multi-user mode when booted, but that was > resolved with the first kernel update, and it mis-identified the built- > in wifi card) it worked fine. In Fedora 8 neither the wireless nor > wired ethernet interfaces work and I can't get them to work without the > machine hanging. I've tried putting in a PC card wifi interface, but > not managed to get that working either. It seems to make a complete > pig's ear of identifying and setting up wifi interfaces. > > On the other box (which ran CentOS5 happily and is even relatively > stable with win xp sp2 installed), the installation went fine and then > I got kernel panics when booting. The only way I found to resolve > that was to completely disable selinux using the boot option "selinux=0" > but it took me some time to get that far. That's a shame, I wish I could tell you what the problems were. Have you checked F8's common bugs page? Might be worth trying again in a few weeks though, as Fedora often has a lot of new stuff in, which once in the wild, throws up a lot of new bugs! They're usually quick with updates, however...obviously you found this with the F7 release. Jon > > James > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html