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i do believe you have had an unfortunate and rare occurrence while installing the most advanced linux OS i have been installing fedora since fedora 8 came out and up until the latest ubuntu came out (10.10) Fedora has been much easier for me personally to install. Usually taking a max of 3 hrs total to to install the os. methods of installation i have tried: USB Boot image of fedora 10 - 14 Gnome and kde Live Image of fedora 8 - 14 Gnome, kde and lxde Dvd image of Fedora 9 - 14 Gnome and Kde Current system: Phenom II X4 945 clock: 3.06Ghz G.Skill 8gb ddr2 pc 8500 1066mhz (4 * 2gb) ATI HD 4670 512mb ddr5 pci-e16x HDD1 Sata3gb 320gb WD |Partitions: 4; Windows 7 ultimate 64; Fedora 14; JULinux8Stable HDD2 Sata3gb 1tb WD |Partitions: 1;ntfs formatted storage HDD3 Sata3gb 1tb WD |Partitions: 1;ntfs formatted storage HDD4 Sata6gb 1tb WD |Partitions: 1;ntfs formatted storage ASUS 21.5in HD LCD Monitor ASUS 21.5in HD LCD Monitor ASUS N Wifi pci-e1x ASUS BT USB Doggle ASUS CD/DVD Combo Burner ASUS M4A78-EM Motherboard Antec 650 Earthwatts PSU Xigmatec Utgard mesh case Next 5 fan controller Next 5 fan controller Logitech Trackman wired mouse Microsoft/Razor Recluse keyboard Planar 21.5in touchpanel monitor ( touch keyboard interface i designed) :P the main drive hosting the operating systems hosts 3 different operating systems but each operating system are optimized and tweaked to emulate the same full functionality and compatability that the windows 7 ultimate offers. Note: Julinux is based on Ubuntu i'd advise getting a usb drive and visiting fedoras documentation pages to get the app specifically for making fedora usb images to get through your difficulties with ease. > From: Nikolaus@xxxxxxxx > Subject: Installation Impressions > Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:54:34 -0500 > To: > > 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 > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines |
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