So there's no way to install with some systems because it messes up the partition table.
you can't run fdisk in the provided virtual terminal on alt-ctrl-f2 or f3? I could have sworn you had access to fdisk through the provided virtual terminal.
Yes, but then I can't select those partitions to install to.
I tried and tried and tried to make Test1 install to an existing partition but it refused, it would only install to a partition that Disk Druid created, but Disk Druid trashed my partition table.
I found a solution (boot with hda=cyl,heads,sectors) but not on this mailing list (or any other fedora mailing list for that matter) but on a website where someone had posted "how I made fedora install on my thinkpad"
I apologize for mixing my issue with the lilo issue (mine wasn't grub related) but the attitude I saw on the mailing list made me appreciate Guy and Mike's comments: the FC4 installs do not work on very very very common hardware and any time we ask for help or understanding or a way to use tools that we know _do_ work we get told that we're not helpful and should shut up.
Sure, Guy got carried away, but so did the people who followed him up accusing him of just being a troll.
I'm trying to find out what Fedora's goal is: I know RedHat controls it and I'm used to working around RedHat things, but when it just plain doesn't work with my brand new laptop, made by such a small little known company (IBM) and I see other people getting frustrated as well and things like OpenOffice being installed on a minimal setup....
That's gotta suck :)
Dana "OK, going back to work" Lacoste
On Apr 12, 2005 5:09 PM, Dana Lacoste dana.lacoste@peregrine.com wrote:
I tried and tried and tried to make Test1 install to an existing partition but it refused
That's news to me... you filed that as a bug right?
I found a solution (boot with hda=cyl,heads,sectors) but not on this mailing list (or any other fedora mailing list for that matter) but on a website where someone had posted "how I made fedora install on my thinkpad"
Is this issue in bugzilla? Its great that people find workarounds... its not so great if those workarounds and the problems associated with those workarounds never actually get filed.
the FC4 installs do not work on very very very common hardware and any time we ask for help or understanding or a way to use tools that we know _do_ work we get told that we're not helpful and should shut up.
As soon as people start talking about specific technical issues... conversations get better as a general rule. The people you have singled out as being appreciative of in this round of discussion..did an exceedingly POOR job of participating in this discussion in a manner that invites civil discourse. General bickering do not make for constructive conversations. Peter has gone out of his way now, more than once in this thread, to ask for specific situations where grub is the peice of software at fault.
I'm trying to find out what Fedora's goal is:
There are a set of umbrella objectives for the project.
I know RedHat controls it
Correction controls Core... and manages Extras.
but when it just plain doesn't work with my brand new laptop, made by such a small little known company (IBM)
Laptops... are their own special breed of support hell. If you have specific issues, file a bug and try to work through it with the developers. Deep hardware issues are probably kernel related, though it depends on the specific issues. New laptop models will have new issues.. its the nature of laptops and their bizarro specific hardware/bios issues. Hardware specific issues can be a real pain in the ass to debug.. if you don't have the hardware as a developer... and laptops are really good at having very pedantic hardware issues that are specific to that exact make and model of laptop.
and I see other people getting frustrated as well and things like OpenOffice being installed on a minimal setup....
People who get spitting mad over openoffice accidently being sucked into a minimal install in test2, need to get some perspective and possibly some stress or anger management counseling.
-jef"knows from personal experience as a semi-professional verbal pugilist , people who enter conversations confrontationally are more interested in the confrontation and not the conversation and certainly seldom interested in compromise or any sort of result that invovles 2-way communication. While verbal pugilism is entertaining, and well paying as a blood-sport.. its not particularly useful or appropriate set of skills to use on other unsuspecting people in public places like mailinglists. Since society doesn't tend to reward or appeciate boxers who wade into a crowded mall and start physically pounding people like they were other pugilistic combatants.. we should likewise disdain trained verbal pugilists from stepping into public forums and pummeling people with vicious destructive words."spaleta