I can see that a good option would be for the initial installation to
have two GRUB entries for the first kernel.
1. Normal boot.
2. Reduced level boot.
It might make things easier the first time around.
For fresh installs where rebooting the system after install and before
firstboot, such an option being availble would be handy. At least grub
does make it easier to change runlevels or add parameters to the boot
command when problems arise
With the GCC4 problem that really took its toll on X for FC4 release, it
would have spared users from turning away from Fedora, as stated by some
who were detoured to other distros temporarily. A new set of FC4 ISOs
with all improvements to date should be released once FC3 becomes
unsupported. Sooner if developers or community provided an updated set
of ISOs to lessen the frustrations new installers of FC4 experienced.
FC5 should be a lot cleaner of a distro snapshot. (pure guess) - The
time period between the two snapshots and things learned from the FC3 to
FC4 snapshot which had the shorter time period to smooth out the
installation ISOs for FC4.
Let's hope for a better FC5 and if we help weed out the bugs through the
upcoming beta cycle.
Jim
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QOTD:
If it's too loud, you're too old.
