On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 13:43 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Ted Kaczmarek wrote: > > > Finished my yum upgrade yesterday and FC4 is another great leap forward. > > Only issue I had was I needed to upgrade minitrd from FC3 version to FC4 > > version, otherwise the yum upgrade faq was right on. > > > > Thanks out to the whole team for making computing so enjoyable. > > Sadly I have to disagree. > I have upgraded from FC-3 to FC-4 on 5 rather different computers, > and had serious problems on 3 of the 5, > and a lesser problem on a fourth (with the x86_64 distribution). > > My experience is that Fedora is getting worse from this point of view - > ability to upgrade or install - not better. > > My latest problem was with a Sony Picturebook C1VFK. > I started to upgrade using CDs, duly checked. > I gave the magic command "linux text ide1=0x180,0x386" > as advised in the Release Notes. > (Well, I had to add the "text" because when I tried > using the standard graphics installation > the bottom of the pages did not appear on my (small) screen, > and there did not appear to be any way to get to them.) > > In any case, the above command allowed me to boot from CD#1, > and to start the upgrade from this CD. > However, the installation bombed out when the time came > to put in CD#2. > This left the machine in a fairly unusable state. > Fortunately I was able to use "yum update" > to install the rest of the distribution. > (This took 9 hours.) > > I like Fedora once it is installed and running. > But why oh why can't the Anaconda team > look at the other Linux distributions, > and see what it is they are doing right > and Anaconda is doing wrong? > > I've filed bugzillas about the problems I've encountered > over the years with Fedora, > but never had the impression anyone felt it was their job > to try to get Fedora working on different machines. > I've actually been told on several occasions > that my problem is that I am using "non-standard" hardware. > > I have to admit that one thing does now work on my Picturebook > which hasn't worked for a year or more - > the latest version of X (xorg-x11) has corrected a bug > which prevented it running on this machine. > There has been a patch available for a couple of years, > and I've had to re-compile X with the patch included, until now, > despite myself and others pointing out in bugzillas and elsewhere > that it was necessary to apply this (tiny) patch. > I had no major issues other than needed a new version of mkinitrd on my tyan 2462 smp mobo and my sager laptop upgraded like a breeze. Yum is a most wonderful tool :-) Ted
