Fedora Core 1 install - comments

[Eli]

All,

Ok, I just installed FC1 on my Winbook XL (yeah, it's old, but it still limps 
along).  I did an install, not an upgrade.  Here are the issues I noticed:

Hardware-specific:
- My pcmcia ethernet card stops working now and then.  Re-seating it fixes it.  
(Either a kernel or pcmcia or hotplug issue I presume, but I thought I'd 
mention it.)

- The on-board sound card is not recognized.  (It seems to be an opl3sa2 
variant; I haven't determined how to get it to initialize so KDE uses it on 
boot.  Kernel issue.)

- I have to add "pci=irqmask=0xaff0" to the kernel parameters to avoid locking 
up as soon as I touch the mouse (a touch pad).  So, I added that to the 
kernel commandline when I booted the install CD.  But when the system 
rebooted, it didn't have that in grub.conf, so it locked up.  When the user 
adds commandline parameters to the install kernel, they can't just be 
ignored... they need to show up in grub.conf.  Perhaps the user should be 
asked about it, if there are cases where that isn't the desired behavior.

Software-related:
- One of the first things I did once I got the ethernet working was 'yum 
update', but I get a 404 message.  Apparently 
"http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1/headers/headers.info" does 
not exist.  Um, that's a _really_ bad way to start off.  Is there a yum 
repository I can point this thing to?  (Better: make that link work.)

- Is there a bugzilla for Fedora around somewhere?  I don't see a link on the 
fedora.redhat.com site.  If we're supposed to use bugzilla.fedora.us, there 
needs to be a link to it...

Anyway, the above were the things I got annoyed with... hopefully the last 
three can be addressed.  Thanks for listening to me rant. :/

C-ya,

Eli