I had a bad experience yesterday installing FC-5 (x86_64 version) on an Athlon AMD-64 machine. The machine was running FC-4, so I started by trying to upgrade. I got an error on CD#4 - an rpm was not found. I tried again, and got a similar error on CD#2. So I transferred the CDs to the hard disk (/dev/hda2, a VFAT partition). This time the upgrade bombed out with 2 minutes to go. So I decided to install rather than upgrade. This not only failed, it also destroyed my grub setup. To cut a long story short, I finished by installing FC-4 with minimal custom choice. This worked, so I updated this to FC-5, and then installed what I needed with "yum groupinstall"s. I've had similar problems installing FC-5 (x386 version) on another machine. Is it me, or has anaconda really deteriorated? I like FC-5, which seems to me to be a great distribution. It's a pity installing it seems to meet so many problems. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
