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

[Richard Body]

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. 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).