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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. 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