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

[John Blomfield]

One quick update!  After updating all the latest patches and kernel I 
reboot and had a file system failure!  Fedora recovered well putting me 
at a file system recovery prompt and telling me to run fsck manually.  I 
ran through numerous fixes ending in an automatic reboot and Fedora 
recovered the file system without any noticeable problems with the 
installation.  My conclusion is that there must have been some bad 
sectors on the new HD which were then bypassed.  Its years since I have 
seen bad sectors on a drive!

John


John Blomfield wrote:
> I have just fired up my new computer for the first time with Linux and 
> I must say I am most impressed.  Never have I had such a flawless 
> installation!  With some hesitation and a lot of research I decided I 
> would go with a nVidia chipset and video card.  My hesitation was that 
> on two computers ago I had had all sorts of problems with nVidia video 
> cards but that was probably with Fedora 3, an early Suse or Mandrake.  
> It now seems the problems with nVidia cards have been resolved. I 
> booted with Fedora 8 KDE Live DVD which worked perfectly.  After a 
> little checking I then installed which can't have taken more than 
> about 5 minutes and again no problems so far.  My next step is to 
> download all updates and get all my favourite tools, applications and 
> transfer my /home from my old machine.  Will keep you posted.
>
> 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
>
> John Blomfield
>
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