Bad DVD or bad ISO?

[Redefined Horizons]

Thanks Claude and Thierry.

I'll check the sum on the DVD.
How would I go about filing a bug report or feature request for the installer?

Thanks for the help.

Scott Huey

On 11/29/06, Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:
> On Wed November 29 2006 3:21 pm, Redefined Horizons wrote:
> > Also, when moving through the installation process it didn't
> > seem that Fedora recognized my Debian system when it came time
> > to configure Grub. I accepted the default configuration for
> > Grub, because I couldn't find a way to add the Debian as one
> > of the bootloader options.
> >
> You can't add your Debian OS during Fedora's installation. You'll
> have to edit grub.conf after you're up to include the Debian in
> the options - a source of many recent complaints I've come upon
> in Fedora reviews. It's pretty easy to add your other Linux to
> the grub.conf file - do a google on it for plenty of info
>
> > However, it appears that Grub didn't overwrite my MBR entries
> > for Debian, becuase after I bailed on the Fedora install Grub
> > loaded Debian with no problems. Did I miss something during
> > the install, or should Fedora have notified me that it saw
> > Debian when it was configuring Grub?
> >
> Fedora installs write the grub to the MBR near the very end of
> the whole process - you never got that far
>
> > I'm not at trying to complain in any way. I'm just want to
> > learn what I can about Fedora, and provide some positive
> > feedback. :]
> A problem I had with one of my installs is that it kept reporting
> it couldn't read such and such a file on the DVD - it offered
> a 'retry' option, and that always got me past that, though it
> sometimes took several tries.
>
> I hope that the Fedora team really focusses on fixing all these
> installation issues for FC7 - it's a big negative for an
> otherwise great distro - whether it's read failures, broken
> media checks, grub not being written to the MBR, etc... The
> process is more like gambling... Other distros don't seem to
> have as big a cluster of problems at install phase, so my guess
> is it's just something waiting to be addressed.
>
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> Claude Jones
> Brunswick, Md, USA
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