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Fedora Installation, Configuration and Update Issues

I've been using Fedora since FC1 — I started using Linux with WGS 3.2, then RedHat Linux 4.2, and changed to Fedora with the transition from RedHat Linux 9 — and I feel I should share some of the pleasure and pain of fighting all sorts of hardware and software issues that I've had with installing, upgrading and configuring the operating system on the various hardware and software combinations that I've used.

This is not an installation guide, as there are very many good ones online. Rather, it'll probably be mostly of use to the person who has a slightly unusual installation.

I'm currently (December 2006) running Fedora Core 6, so I will start with that. I run FC6 personally on an HP Pavilion dv4000 notebook, and I've installed it on a couple of Intel boxes.

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