Today, between conference calls, replying to emails, RDP'ing into servers and responding to IM - I loaded my old Dell laptop with Fedora 8 and Gnome.
How cool is that?
We are now using Red Hat and I figured if I could get some knowledge out of Fedora, it would be a good thing.
It was far easier than I thought it would be. I just changed the boot order of my Dell to boot off the CD rather than the hard drive, then inserted a bootable CD with Fedora loaded. The configured a few options, clicked on the install to disk and boom - an error :-( My first Linux issue to resolve. Seems you can't have the target drive "mounted" (in Linux terms) or the installer thinks the disk is in use. After two retries at the install, I thought "hum, let me unmount the target hard drive and try again" - success!
After that, I just shutdown the laptop, removed the CD and rebooted - all done. Even the mouse worked. Now I'm updating all the out of date packages on the Fedora build that was on the CD - about 193 updates and it's taking forever, but at least the ethernet adapter loaded effortlessly and my download speeds are great. But still, 193 package updates - geez...
Okay, back to work.
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