Hi;
I am not ordinarily truly dumb; I have installed FC3 and FC4 several
times previously. But when I installed FC5 about a week ago I wasted
about 4 hours because my brain refused to work, I had forgotten some
basics, and frustration took over. Now I've been thinking that if I
could get my self into so much trouble what could happen with someone
truly new to Fedora.
* After down loading very slowly using BitTorrent (my cable
company chokes BitTorrent downloads to about 33 KB/s), I went
directly to Documentation ==> Installation Guide. Suggestion:
As one of the first Items in the Table of Contents of the
Installation Guide replicate the Table of Contents (with links)
from the Download ==> Download and Installation Instructions.
* I had forgotten how to use SHA1SUM. 'man' that night seemed
particularly obtuse. There is a good example in the Download
and Installation Guide but it took me an hour or so before I
found it. Suggestion: Installation Guide should have a clear
link to the Download and Installation Guide or just copy the
relevant paragraph with perhaps a more detailed explanation for
how to use SHA1SUM with FC5 downloads. In both, the use of
SHA1SUM should be a separate ToC item.
* I only burn .iso images to CD once every 6 to 8 months (for each
new Fedora release). I tried using the method shown in 4.1
Preparing CD or DVD media, from the Installation Guide. I tried
every logical combination of the example used and I couldn't get
it to work. Probably some examples would have helped. Is
--device= /dev/hdc or CD-R/W or what? Is image-file.iso generic
or is it FC5-i386-disc1.iso or what? In any case, I couldn't
make it work. So I decided to try X-CD-Roast.
* It took about another hour to find 4.3.2.3 Writing ISOs with
X-CD-Roast from the Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide --
linked through the Download and Installation Instructions. This
ISO burning Howto is excellent.
As a separate suggestion, I have used DiskDruid to set up custom
partitions in the past, however, this time I wanted to do things
slightly different. A fuller, more detailed Help button as opposed to
Release Notes during the DiskDruid part of the installation would have
been very useful.
In summary, all the info was there, it was just hard to find for a
newbie or someone suffering from a particularly bad brain cramp.
Regards Bill
