Fedora-18 -- how to install?

[Walter Dnes]

On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 09:48:11AM -0500, Mark Lane wrote

> So I played for the better part of the day to get FC18 installed
> properly and I'm a Linux Expert. We aren't going to get people to move
> to Linux if it this complicated.
> 
> My current procedure for updating my kernel is:
> 
> 1) Install new kernel and kernel sources
> 2) Reboot to boot to runlevel 3
> 3) Install akmod-fglrx
> 4) Rebuilt fglrx kernel modules
> 5) uninstall akmod-fglrx
> 6) reboot
> 
> Do you expect some noobie to do that?

  Installing *ANY* OS is subject to booby-traps.  Give some noobie a
Windows install CD and a a new system with a blank hard drive, and see
how far he gets.  Windows' advantage is that it comes pre-installed.

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