On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 11:37 -0400, Jerry Ro wrote:
hello all,
I am interested in installing fedora on a laptop x61t (it is, to the
best of my understanding, a 64bit machine.)
a few questions I have:
* should 60-80 GB be reasonable for full installation of fedora?
The full system itself will use under 10GB. How much else you need
depends on what you're doing with it.
* i would like to upgrade to fedora 10 when it is available. should
i
install the beta release which would make it easier to upgrade, or
should i stick to fedora 9 since it is more stable and still easy to
upgrade?
I'd advise installing F9, running "yum update" to get current, then
waiting for the F10 release which should be less than a month away. I'm
sure other people on this list will have different opinions though :-)
* should i be worried about performance with fedora 10/9 on a laptop
with 1.6Ghz processor and 4GB ram?
For ordinary desktop use, no.
* last, i tried running the Live CD for x86_64 of fedora 9. i had a
weird experience - fedora loaded, but no text appeared. instead it was
all black empty spots ("null" font). should i be worried about that
when coming to install fedora in fully?
Maybe a problem with your video chipset, but you don't identify the
laptop so it's hard to say. It's probably fixable though.
* i read somewhere that someone installed fedora 64bit on a laptop
x61t like mine, and complained that everything was incredibly slow.
once he re-installed the 32bit version, it became much better. i would
like to use a 64bit version still... should i be worried about having
the same behavior?
Same Fedora version? Same amount of RAM? I'm surprised but go with
32-bit if you're nervous about it.
poc