On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 10:19:03 -0600 Thomas Paine <painethom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Honestly fedora is going to give you more trouble. I would install centos if you want an rpm based install. It will save you headache when you get to the pulse audio issues if you stay away from fedora. I don;t know about that. I have never had trouble with Fedora installs from 1 to 14, except when my HW was very new (iwl4965) about two years ago. I have had some minor trouble with ubuntu. Fedora is a leading-edge distribution and you get what you bargain for. > You can also use Ubuntu 10.10 which I am currently using. > > If you want to get fedora to install download the live USB Creator and install from a stick. Then yum update to get current. This (update to get current) is true even for a network install (unfortunately), even though it does not need to be. Really, with regard to distributions, to each his/her own. My wife prefers and uses Ubuntu: I have stuck with Fedora. Ranjan > > On 2011-02-05 11:13 AM, "Nikolaus Rath" <Nikolaus@xxxxxxxx<mailto:Nikolaus@xxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm a long term Debian and Ubuntu user and just tried to install Fedora > > 14. I want to share a couple of impressions: > > > > I don't have a CD writer at hand, so I downloaded the netinstall image. > > Following the instructions in the installation guide, I copied vmlinuz > > and initrd.img from the .iso and bootet into it using my existing grub2 > > setup. > > > > The first surprise came when the installer asked me where to install > > from. I downloaded the network image, so I thought it'd be obvious that > > I wanted to install from the network. > > > > Lacking any URL or NFS server address, I figured that maybe the > > installer is asking for the netinstall image itself? That'd be weird, > > but seemed the most reasonable explanation. > > > > Unfortunately, I am not able to use the downloaded disk image because > > at this point the installer doesn't have LVM support. Brr. > > > > Rebooted, copied the network image into NFS share, booted into the > > installer again. > > > > Now the installer reports that it can't mount the share. This is > > obviously wrong, because if I try to specify the filename of the > > netimage rather than just the directory, the installer complains that > > this isn't the right file. > > > > Grmbl. Reboot, read the documentation again. Ok, apparently I should be > > able to manually enter the URL of a Fedora mirror. So I grab I piece of > > paper and write down > > > > http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/fedora/releases/14/Fedora/x86_86/os/ > > > > Reboot, back into the installer. I am wondering why the hell I have to > > enter this. The installer knows what I'm trying to install, and it should be > > able to figure out where the closest mirror is. > > > > Crash. I forgot that I downloaded the netboot image for i386. Why isn't > > the installer warning me that install.img that it downloaded doesn't > > work with the booted kernel? > > > > Reboot, typed the correct address. Now I'm in a graphical mode that > > knows LVM. > > > > I'm warned about the installer not being able to update my existing > > installation, but there is no existing Fedora installation. Well, > > whatever. > > > > Now the installer asks for the password of my LUKS encrypted swap > > partition. Unfortunately the password is chosen at random on every boot. > > It gives a really scary error message that it will not be able to use > > this storage device which doesn't seem appropriate to me. > > > > I chose manual partitioning. The installer asks me for the LUKS password > > again and gives a scary error again. Now I'm trying to use the swap > > partition for Fedora as well. I double click on it, and select "format > > as swap", "encrypted". Doesn't seem to have any effect, there is no > > indication that Fedora will actually use the device, and when I'm > > reopening the dialog then my settings are gone. > > > > Alright, so I'll do without swap for now. Next thing the installer > > complains that I cannot put my root partition into LVM2. This works just > > fine with Grub2, and isn't Fedora supposed to be cutting edge? Anyway, > > so I try to create a primary /boot partition instead. > > > > There is 128 MB of free space. I tell the installer to use all the space > > that's available. It claims that there is not enough space left. > > > > At this point I just got too annoyed. Am I just extremely unlucky or is > > a Fedora installation always that painful? > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > -Nikolaus > > > > -- > > »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« > > > > PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C > > -- > > users mailing list > > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
