I successfully installed Fedora 64 on a system comprised of the following:
Tyan S2882 Thunder K8S Pro Motherboard w/ IDE, SATA, SCSI, RAID Dual Opteron 240 chips 2 GB Ram 160 GB Maxtor IDE HD Sony DVD+-RW Creative Sound Blaster Live GFORCE FX 5200 PCI dual vga video Epson Printer Casio Digital Camera
To start with, I burned the three iso's to cds...
The install was pretty smooth, although on reboot it seemed to hang on enabling swap space. I booted into my 32-bit install on a separate partition, edited /etc/inittab to boot into init 3, and remarkably this cured the problem.
Setting up X using nvidia's drivers was no problem. Sound took nothing special at all. The printer and digital camera were both recognized, and while I haven't used the printer yet, I was able to easily mount the camera and get pictures off.
So far I have had no problems, other than having to compile xmms and mplayer from source. After that was done, they both work well. I have yet to get gaim-encryption successfully working, but maybe if I do a recompile of gaim and gaim-encryption, perhaps it will work.
Thus far I've been very happy as either RPMs or SRPMs are usually available making it easy. A few hiccups occured on some SRPMs for some packages I was just trying out (can't really even remember what the software was), so I downloaded the source and it seemed to work. I believe for one kde application I had to create a link in /usr/lib to one of the libraries in /usr/lib64/...
I guess if I had any complaints right now it would be the lack of repositories for yum, but its understandable as this isn't even a stable release yet. I also hope vmware produces a workstation release that works in 64-bit mode, as I know they have started working on it and are in either alpha or beta stage.
I have had no lock-ups or crashes, and everything is smooth.
Feel free to ask any questions about the hardware, the software or anything else related to my use of fedora 64.
Raz0rSharp
raz0rsharp wrote :
So far I have had no problems, other than having to compile xmms and mplayer from source. After that was done, they both work well. I have yet to get gaim-encryption successfully working, but maybe if I do a recompile of gaim and gaim-encryption, perhaps it will work.
Thus far I've been very happy as either RPMs or SRPMs are usually available making it easy. A few hiccups occured on some SRPMs for some packages I was just trying out (can't really even remember what the software was), so I downloaded the source and it seemed to work. I believe for one kde application I had to create a link in /usr/lib to one of the libraries in /usr/lib64/...
Hey, just find a way to provide me with an Opteron machine, and I'll make sure all my packages recompile cleanly on it, just as I currently do for ppc ;-)
Matthias