Installation Woes

[Mike Peterson]

I have installed Fedora on 3 different systems and had the good luck of it
running on all 3.
GUI, sound, and NIC.
I did find that when you copy several directories of data via ssh that the
system slows to a crawl for any additional users trying to log in via
console or ssh.

I did a comparison install with the latest released Mandrake 9.2 on one of
the systems on a different hard drive and the install went good, but GUI did
not configure and work at all.
No boot disk was created.
It recommends like with Fedora and Red Hat to use the boot CD/CD #1 as a
rescue media if needed.
It does still offer the Individual Package Install Option unlike Fedora and
Red Hat.

But I see Fedora and Red Hat as trying to make things less complicated and
more uniform by taking out that option.
It probably makes the kickstart file less complicated to look at.
Now if we can just get the folks at MySQL to allow the latest version to
ship with Fedora Core 2.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Timothy S. Mori" <tim_mori at ncsu.edu>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 11:43 AM
Subject: RE: Installation Woes


> Hmm.. It's strange that it would halt on the first CD. I had an install
> stall on the second CD due to a corrupted file. When I burned a new copy
of
> the CD using different burning software (used Nero this time), which
> informed me that the image was too large and the disc would need to be
> "finalized" in order to fit everything on the one disc. This didn't happen
> when I was using another piece of software.
>
> I also didn't have this problem with the release just prior to Yarrow,
which
> I burned on non-RW discs. It's possible that there's a problem with the
> image sizes for RW discs.
>
> Tim
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]
On
> Behalf Of Jack Bowling
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 11:51 AM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Installation Woes
>
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 04:10:44AM -0800, Chris Sparks wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I have tried two different approaches to install Fedora to no avail.
> > The first I bought CDs from CheapBytes and found that the installation
> > would halt during installation from the first CD.  I then downloaded the
> > ".iso" images from a website (bonafide mirror) and burned new CDs and
> > that too halted during isntallation.  Is there some inherent problem
> > with installation or am I not doing something that I need to do?
>
> Possibly unrelated, but I put FC1 on my workstation here at home this
> weekend. The first disc stalled after 4 packages. Having bought a
> stack of Memorex Black CD-Rs that day and with the Yarrow isos on my
> laptop win partition, I burned some new CDs and all was fine after
> that. There are some really crappy CD blanks out there.
>
> -- 
> Jack Bowling
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