F14 Alpha - First impressions

[Bill Davidsen]

Fulko Hew wrote:
> 
> a) I'm disappointed that I couldn't try it in VirtualBox v3.0.8,
>    but then again F13 wouldn't install there either.
>    (It might work under newer VirtualBox's, but thats all I have right now.
>    (The installation 'infinite loops during system loader phase with a 
> stack trace')
> 
If your hardware supports VM then why not run it under KVM? All I did to get it 
working from CLI was:
   qemu-img create -f qcow2 fc14a3.img 6G
   qemu-kvm -m 1000 -hda fc14a3.img -cdrom Fedora14a3-LiveCD.iso -boot d

> b) I'm glad that it does (so far) attempt to install under QEMU
>    (under the virtual machine manager from Fedora 8)
> 
I hope you don't mean the software emulated version, it will work (I did FC10 
x86_64 on a Pentium-III as a hack), but it will be leisurely.

> c) The GUI install wouldn't work, but I fell back to text install.
> 
> d) I was disappointed that it would not let me select the packages
>    to install (I want KDE not Gnome)
> 
Need the full install for that, LiveCD is GNOME.

> More comments if I get any.
> 

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