On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 00:55 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Is it me, or has anaconda really deteriorated? Anaconda has gone through some changes - IE it now is using yum. What I do (and I've done numerous fc5 installs) - I always do a clean install. This works better with some planning. Of course, you should ALWAYS backup you data before upgrade or install - but what is best is if /home is a separate partition (in can be in the same volume group as everything else, just a separate logical volume). I also make a /srv partition - and change configuration files for apache/mysql/etc. to use /srv instead of /var (requires some SELinux tweaks as well). Then when new distro comes out - I can do a dump of the mysql database in case there are problems, backup /etc, and do a clean install reformating / but leaving /home and /srv as they are. With fc5 - I customize later, and deselect the Office checkbox. -=- On a machine where anaconda fails - I try an http install. Very often that works. It seems anaconda isn't patient enough to wait for the disk to finish mounting on some hardware, so it works via http install but not by DVD install. If that doesn't work (and I've seen even that fail, especially on laptops - seems that the pcmcia utils on the fc5 disk has a bug with some laptops preventing cardbus cards from working) - then I do a fc4 install. After installing fc4 I yum update the kernel (a must), then update yum, then I install the fedora-release from fc5. This then allows me to do a yum update to bring it up to fc5. Then I yum install pirut - which allows me to use the gui software installer to install all the software I want.
