> Now I'm trying to install F8/x86_64 on it, and the installer is running > amazingly slowly. It took about ten minutes before the initial graphical Probably wrong memory caching in the BIOS. That's a common cause of those symptoms. If so boot with mem=2G or be patient and once you've got it installed take a look at /proc/mtrr and that will show which memory the system marked as cached. If its wrong then you can tweak the settings and/or beat up the BIOS vendor
