Upgrading to F8 on Dell Dimension 5100

[Martin Marques]

Dave Cross escribió:
> I have a Dell Dimension 5100 which was running F7 very happily for
> some time. I wanted to upgrade it to F8.
> 
> I downloaded the DVD ISO and burnt it to a blank disk.
> 
> When the system boots from the DVD, I see the boot menu. I select
> either the Install/Upgrade or Install/Upgrade (text) option. I then
> get the "Loading vmlinuz..." and "Loading initrd.img..." messages
> followed by a "Ready." prompt.
> 
> At that point the system hangs. The installation doesn't proceed.
> 
> Has anyone else seen anything like whilst installing or upgrading F8?
> Any advice on how I can debug this problem?

Yes, there has been a very long discussion about this in the bugzilla 
report 372011.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=372011

Use the Fedora Unity respin which worked for me.

Anyway, upgrades in Fedora are crappy (something to work on for Fedora 9).