Sorry for this, I pushed "Send" too fast.
On 7/31/09, Andras Simon szajmi@gmail.com wrote:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1235298&postcount=111
I'm trying to install F11 on an eee pc with a 4G ssd drive (F9 and F10 worked well on it). For various reasons, my preferred method of installing from a live cd on a usb stick was not an option. so, instead, I followed the instructions here:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1235298&postcount=111
in effect, installing from the install dvd image on a usb stick.
First, the graphical install didn't work (I have no idea why: X was running fine with F9 and 10). It hung, with the last lines of /tmp/anaconda.log being:
ERROR: Error running xrandr: None INFO: Starting graphical installation ... WARNING: step installtype does not exist WARNING: step confirminstall does not exist WARNING: step complete does not exist INFO: moving (1) to step welcome
So I tried text-mode install. At the partitioning stage I chose the second option (which seemed to say that the original partitioning will be used) but the installer complained that there wasn't enough space. Nonsense, with a / partition that is almost 4G, of which only 0.5G was used later. So I had to go back and choose the 3rd option ("use all free space" or some such). I didn't know it meant automatic partitioning (a very bad idea with a 4G ssd! one certainly doesn't want a swap partition there) but it did. And from then on I had no say in other matters (package selection, grub installation) either. Among other things, it means that now I can only boot with the usb stick, I have lvm and ext4 / partition which I definitely don't want, but no wireless, because NM is an X thing and X wasn't installed (OK, the first and the last problem don't seem that bad).
I guess my main question is how to make the graphical installer work, because I have the feeling the text-based installer just isn't capable of asking all the questions, and that is why it makes all the decisions for the user. But I'd be curious about any information about this mess.
Andras
On 7/31/09, Andras Simon szajmi@gmail.com wrote:
First, the graphical install didn't work (I have no idea why: X was running fine with F9 and 10).
X is fine with the F11 live cd, too.
used later. So I had to go back and choose the 3rd option ("use all free space" or some such). I didn't know it meant automatic
No, it must have been the "use entire drive" option.
Andras
Andras Simon wrote:
X is fine with the F11 live cd, too.
So why not install from this? How did you run it without a CD, incidentally?
used later. So I had to go back and choose the 3rd option ("use all free space" or some such). I didn't know it meant automatic
No, it must have been the "use entire drive" option.
I always use the last (Custom Install) option. I have zero faith in Anaconda's partitioning.
On 8/1/09, Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
Andras Simon wrote:
X is fine with the F11 live cd, too.
So why not install from this?
To mention just one reason: the installation process dies with an ugly sigsegv. I can dig up the bugzilla entry for you if you're interested...
How did you run it without a CD, incidentally?
livecd-iso-to-disk Fedora-11-i686-Live.iso /dev/sdd1
where /dev/sdd1 is where the usb stick lives. After this, it's bootable. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo.
used later. So I had to go back and choose the 3rd option ("use all free space" or some such). I didn't know it meant automatic
No, it must have been the "use entire drive" option.
I always use the last (Custom Install) option.
Me too. Except that there wasn't one, probably because of the text-mode installation.
I have zero faith in Anaconda's partitioning.
Agreed. What is especially frustrating here is that there was no need for partitioning. The old one (smallish /boot, and a root partition) would've been fine. Except that the installer thought (wrongly) that there wouldn't be enough space.
Andras
On 7/31/09, Andras Simon szajmi@gmail.com wrote:
First, the graphical install didn't work (I have no idea why: X was running fine with F9 and 10). It hung, with the last lines of
It turns out that the graphical installer was waiting for user intervention - it's just that because of the small screen of the eee pc, the Next button wasn't visible... But now the installation process is advancing rather smoothly.
Andras