On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:37:19 -0400,
Jerry Ro <jerrro(a)gmail.com> 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?
Just the installed stuff and not accounting for scratch space and whatever
data you have? If so yes. I install a lot of Fedora and now need over 20GB
for / . I have started using 40GB for root partitions.
* 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 wouldn't use the beta. In preference use snap3. I think a preview release
is due out shortly. Or you can upgrade to current rawhide (using yum or
snap3).
* should i be worried about performance with fedora 10/9 on a laptop
with
1.6Ghz processor and 4GB ram?
That should be OK. If you need 3D acceleration for what you do, that might
be an issue.
* 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?
There can be video card issues especially if you have an nVidia card. The
ATI support is pretty reasonable in Rawhide right now. (Though I still am
seeing rare glitches.)
* 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?
I don't know. But if practical you should use 64bit with 4GB of memory.