F14 Beta RC3 install from DVD is a world of hurt.

[David]

On 9/25/2010 11:03 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 12:22:54PM +1000, Steven Haigh wrote:
>> On 26/09/10 03:43, Steven Haigh wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>> Yes, I do understand that F14 is still in Alpha/Beta, is not guaranteed 
>> to be perfect, and may eat small children, I believe that before we as a 
>> community declare something to be a milestone that we at least do some 
>> basic QA testing.
> 
> For what it's worth, I've been unable to get past starting anaconda in
> qemu-kvm, VirtualBox, and vmware-player.  I hadn't heard or seen anyone
> else mention this on the forums recently, so figured it was a just me
> thing, as I've only tried on one machine, though there has been at least
> one other person on the forums with the same issue.   
> 
> One assumes (yeah, yeah, we all know what happens when you assume) that
> some of the testers have tried on VMs without having problems, or it
> wouldn't have been declared gold.  If that's not the case, as many would
> try it first on a VM, I'd be surprised and add my +1 to Steven's
> statement.  


I can't say for qemu-kvm or vmware-player but the reason that Virtualbox
does not 'like' Fedora 14, or Rawhide, is the version of Xorg they use.
Virtualbox does not, never has, supported non-release (official)
versions of software.
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  David