FC5T2 Installation Notes
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at redhat.com
Mon Jan 16 17:23:29 UTC 2006
Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> Got the 5 CD set downloaded and installed on a test system. Fresh
> install with preconfigured LV over software raid5 PVs.
>
> Installed fine with only a few really minor nits as enumerated below.
> Very nice job Fedora Developers and Maintainers.
>
> Notes:
>
> 1. Release notes reference FC4T1, but immediately (on another system)
> went to web page listed at beginning and saw that was cleaned up.
Right. The ISO and web notes will be available soon.
>
> 2. Saw the missing udev /dev/.ydevdb/db error on first boot, but on
> subsequent boots, no errors.
Can confirm that. its fixed in a update.
>
> 3. On firstboot the screen for Display had the following statement:
>
> P225f-w with ATI Technologies Inc RV280
> [Radeon 9200 SE] (secondary)
>
> Not sure if this was telling that my primary graphics adapter is a
> Radeon 9200 SE or that it saw it as a true second card, which it is on
> a PCI slot. The primary card is a Radeon 9200 on AGP. In the
> xorg.conf file, the adapter is referred to as the 9200 SE, but since
> the monitor is attached to the AGP card and working, this
> identification is wrong. But X worked pretty much ok (see 6 below).
Might file a RFE against firstboot.
>
> 4. On firstboot the screen for System User caused me to pause a bit.
> To me, a system user is one with privileges like root. I think that
> substituting 'computer' for 'system' would make more sense. The
> screen would be titled Computer User and the prompt would read:
>
> "It is recommended that you create a computer 'username' for
> regular (non-administrative) use of your computer. To create a
> computer username, please provide the information requested below."
>
Good idea. File a RFE against firstboot.
> 5. I installed both Gnome and KDE and noticed that the menu selections
> from both were included in the Add to Panel gui. Maybe that is
> default behavior, but I hadn't noticed it before. Nice.
Default behavior, yes.
>
> 6. Anaconda (or X?) is still installing the vesa driver even tho it
> appears that a radeon card was detected. Had to change to radeon in
> xorg.conf.
File a bug report.
>
> 7. GDM problem (bug 177443) still present AFTER you change the default
> greeter to gtk from themed. Had to revert gdm to 2.8.0.4-13.1 to fix.
> Will update bz.
>
Ok.
>
> I like the very nice bubbly fedora backgrounds and the ease of this
> installation. All of the LVs were seen and the software raid5s
> identified during custom partitioning, yay!
>
> Again, nice job Fedora dudes.
>
Glad you liked it.
--
Rahul
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