Upgrading to F8 on Dell Dimension 5100

[Mike]

Dave Cross <davorg <at> gmail.com> writes:

> At that point the system hangs. The installation doesn't proceed.

Dave

On Dell machines where the install hangs I have used the standard workaround
to add "nohz=off nolapic" to the kernel line with great success.

You might like to try that - and it is included in the documentation on
known problems with the F8 install.