Today, I moved my notebook (IBM/Leveno T42) up to Fedora 8. Thinks went very smoothly. The wireless network just worked; a first for this notebook. I’m still working on getting dual-headed displays working, but everything else is going great.

One thing I forgot about the desktop (Dell Dimension 8200) – I had to work around a hang as the machine tried to boot of the install DVD – (Here’s the Bug). The fix was to add the parameter “edd=skipmbr” to the kernel command line.

I ended up turning SELinux to “Permissive”, which is basically the same as “Off”, except it logs things it doesn’t like.

All in all, things went quite well. Both installs were complete disk wipes, and it’s been this simplest OS re-install I’ve had yet.