Bad night with FC-5

[Kam Leo]

On 4/24/06, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> I had a bad experience yesterday installing FC-5 (x86_64 version)
> on an Athlon AMD-64 machine.
>
> The machine was running FC-4, so I started by trying to upgrade.
> I got an error on CD#4 - an rpm was not found.
> I tried again, and got a similar error on CD#2.
>
> So I transferred the CDs to the hard disk (/dev/hda2, a VFAT partition).
> This time the upgrade bombed out with 2 minutes to go.
> So I decided to install rather than upgrade.
> This not only failed,
> it also destroyed my grub setup.
>
> To cut a long story short,
> I finished by installing FC-4 with minimal custom choice.
> This worked, so I updated this to FC-5,
> and then installed what I needed with "yum groupinstall"s.
>
>
> I've had similar problems installing FC-5 (x386 version) on another machine.
>
> Is it me, or has anaconda really deteriorated?
>
> I like FC-5, which seems to me to be a great distribution.
> It's a pity installing it seems to meet so many problems.
>
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> --
> Timothy Murphy
>
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Your experience is not unique.