Fedora Core 1 Installation Notes
This is a post I made to the SLUUG mailing list 16 days ago after I installed Fedora Core 1 on my Thinkpad T30:
Just a quick note to let you know how my Fedora Core 1 installation went yesterday.
I did two installs, once as an upgrade to Red Hat 9, and the other as a fresh installation. The upgrade messed up my network configuration, and Japanese TrueType fonts (so that Mozilla crashes every time the mouse is hovering above the "Bookmarks" button). The fresh install fixed both issues.
I could have fixed the network and font issues by hand. But I was thinking, "If these basic things are messed up, what about all the other things?" So rather than being a unpaid QA person for Fedora, I took the easy route of just wiping the slate clean and did a fresh install.
The installation process is the familiar Red Hat one. In some of the dialogs, they still say "Red Hat Linux". It still says I have a 3 button PS/2 mouse even though I have a USB wheel mouse and a touch pad. I did not bother to change that and the mouse works after the install. I still have to choose my LCD resolution by hand.
It detected both the wired and the wireless network card.
The problem I had with my screen being all messed up after returning from a screensaver or from the suspension mode seems to be gone. I don't have to do the "Ctrl-Alt-F1, Blank the screen and Unblank the screen" exercise any more. However I'm having another problem. Shortly after coming back from suspension mode, the whole thing freezes due to some "dma-timer-expiry" issue with hda. So I have to turn the thing off and on.
I don't know if I'm better off in that regard.
Up2date seems to work, although there are no updates yet.
Everything else feels just like Red Hat 9.0.