Eric I would like to echo your sentiments; On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 08:37 -0400, Eric wrote: > I've been lurking and occasionally posting here since F7 came out, and it > has got me to wondering... Why are some people having so much trouble with F7? > [snip] > > For me, F7 is working great! Way to go, F7 team! Ya done good. :-) > I had a few problems, but they were stupidity gaffs of mine; not Fedora 7's. For those, I have a suggestion or two for making the installation guide a bit clearer. Switching to defencive mode, I would like to remind the guide writers that doing a new install is a nerve wracking moment when simple seldom used procedures are forgotten and when one does NOT want to climb a new learning curve. 1) I wanted to install using the rescue.iso from a secondary hard disk where I had downloaded the DVD.iso. The partition on which I had stored the DVD.iso was my backup partition labelled 'backup', naturally enough, and normally mounted on '/'. Within 'backup' I had created a folder called 'Moonshine" to hold the F-7 *.iso files. The device name was /dev/sda5. I kept trying to start the install from 'backup' instead of Moonshine when I had already told anaconda the device to look for was /dev/sda5. That is, /dev/sda5 and 'backup' are the same place. I know better. Maybe newbies wouldn't. Maybe it was nervousness brought on by several FC3 installation crashes that I managed to create a couple of years ago. It would have been nice to be reminded in the guide somewhere that my partition name equals my device name. 2) The second problem I had was that nautilus would not burn my rescue disk. I fiddled with cdrecord; read, I think the longest and most obtuse 'man' ever created and finally gave up and installed Xcdroast in my FC6 so I could burn the rescue disk. It would have been nice to have the exact cdrecord command-line command handy in an easy to find place in the Installation guide in case of nautilus failure. As you can see, any problems I have had (and they were few) were self-imposed. I wonder how many other people are engaged in too much double think, not expecting things to be so simple, creating their own problems rather than just sitting back and letting F-7 do the installation for them. I agree with Eric, F-7 is a lovely new version. -- Regards Bill
