On 4/24/06, Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > [snip] > -- > Timothy Murphy > [snip] Your experience is not unique.
