Regarding Installation of Invalidated OS (Fedora Core 8) On Dell Power Edge 2900

[J. Epperson]

On Mon, December 1, 2008 16:13, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote:
> Nandakumar, Sriramkumar wrote:
>> Hi, I am Sriram and I am a graduate student at university of Kentucky.
>> We have purchased Dell Power Edge 2900 in our lab. At present no OS is
>> installed on that machine. I would like to install Fedora Core 8 on
>> that machine. I came to know that Fedora Core 8 is the invalidated OS
>> for Power edge 2900. I have few questions regarding this.
>>
>> 1) Has any one installed invalidated OS`s (Particularly Fedora Core 8)
>> on Power Edge 2900? 2) Since my machine has no pre installed OS, Will
>> it be possible to install Fedora core 8 in that? 3) Do we need any
>> extra drivers to be installed before installing Fedora core 8?
>
> Fedora core 10 is already there ! Is there a reason not to install Fedora
>  10 ? You'll probably have less problems with.
>

Being picky, those are Fedora 8 and Fedora 10.  The "core" designation has
been dispensed with (yes, I know the rpms are still tagged fc8 and fc9,
it's an inconsistency within the project).

It's not necessarily so that one would have fewer problems with 10 than 8.
 There have been several reported problems with Fedora 10 on some Dell
hardware that F8 ran fine on.  And Fedora 8 has gdmsetup, which is missing
in 9 and 10.  So if you want a login screen that doesn't offer up all the
usernames on the system, you're out of luck with F10, currently.

But since the machine has no OS on it, why not try 10, then back off to 8
if you don't like the results?  I'd stay away from F9, too much crappy
stuff in it.