What is this rawhide thing?

[Robert Firth]

Hi!

I am trying to install FC4 from dvd onto a Dell PowerEdge SC420.  The 
graphical installation fails, which I think is explained by Bugzilla 
#161242, which admits to a problem with x11 and vesa adapters.  This 
talks about a fix having been imported to rawhide - but what is this 
rawhide thing?  Does it provide an updated dvd iso image for FC4?  Bear 
in mind that I don't have a system installed as yet, so an updated 
xorg-x11 rpm is no use to me, nor can I use yum or up2date. 
Unfortunately I need to use the graphical installation because I am 
trying to install to a pair of sata disks configured with software 
raid-1, and the text version of disk druid doesn't seem to support this.

Any suggestions gratefully received.

[Bob Chiodini]

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 15:46 +0100, Robert Firth wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am trying to install FC4 from dvd onto a Dell PowerEdge SC420.  The 
> graphical installation fails, which I think is explained by Bugzilla 
> #161242, which admits to a problem with x11 and vesa adapters.  This 
> talks about a fix having been imported to rawhide - but what is this 
> rawhide thing?  Does it provide an updated dvd iso image for FC4?  Bear 
> in mind that I don't have a system installed as yet, so an updated 
> xorg-x11 rpm is no use to me, nor can I use yum or up2date. 
> Unfortunately I need to use the graphical installation because I am 
> trying to install to a pair of sata disks configured with software 
> raid-1, and the text version of disk druid doesn't seem to support this.
>
> Any suggestions gratefully received.
>
> -- 
> Robert Firth 
> Tonbridge, Kent, UK

It is the development tree for the next FC release, currently FC5.

Bob...

[Gilboa Davara]

Rawhide is the Fedora development branch.
As the saying goes "rawhide eats babies", which translates to:
"Don't use it unless you really enjoy looking at your machine crash,
die, burn or otherwise do weird things to your data".
As for non-graphical installation. Wait for the installer to start,
switch to a console (F4?) and mount the raid by hand. Once you're done,
resume the installation.

Gilboa

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 15:46 +0100, Robert Firth wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am trying to install FC4 from dvd onto a Dell PowerEdge SC420.  The 
> graphical installation fails, which I think is explained by Bugzilla 
> #161242, which admits to a problem with x11 and vesa adapters.  This 
> talks about a fix having been imported to rawhide - but what is this 
> rawhide thing?  Does it provide an updated dvd iso image for FC4?  Bear
>
> in mind that I don't have a system installed as yet, so an updated 
> xorg-x11 rpm is no use to me, nor can I use yum or up2date. 
> Unfortunately I need to use the graphical installation because I am 
> trying to install to a pair of sata disks configured with software 
> raid-1, and the text version of disk druid doesn't seem to support this.
>
> Any suggestions gratefully received.
>
> -- 
> Robert Firth 
> Tonbridge, Kent, UK