Installing Fedora 8 on a ThinkPad 600X
Introduction
Fedora 8 works as well as any modern Linux distribution on a 600X. The processor, memory and expansion capabilities (such as WiFi) make it a very useful (but not very powerful) tool for work and play. For this installation, I'm going to use the entire drive for Fedora. There are many good resources on partitioning your drive and configuring your machine to boot multiple operating systems. Please read those if you want such a setup.
Installation
Installation Media
Every 600X came with a drive that will read CD-R media, so I used the i686 Live CD for my installation. Some machines did come with DVD-ROM drives which should read DVD-R media, and such a drive can certainly be added to any 600X. Feel free to use the Live DVD or Install DVD images if you like, but the steps for installation will be different. Configuration steps will be the same.
Performing the Install
Boot the Live CD. The first time I use any Fedora media that I create, I like to test that it was burned correctly. If you want to do that, interrupt the countdown with a key press and select Verify and boot Fedora-8-Live-i686. If the test fails, verify your download was good using SHA1SUM and burn another disc.
Login in as fedora or wait 60 seconds for automatic login.
Notes
- These errors appear during boot:
pci 0000:00:01.0: Error creating sysfs bridge symlink, continuing... pci 0000:00:02.0: Error creating sysfs bridge symlink, continuing... pci 0000:00:02.1: Error creating sysfs bridge symlink, continuing...
- This appears during boot if the machine is powered with AC during boot:
cpufreq: change failed with new_state 1 and result 2
