F11: LiveCD problems

[Daniel B. Thurman]

For the first time, I have booted off the LiveCD
and I notice several problems:

(1) The GUI screen starts up with the "teardrop", completes
     filling it up, and then it drops into a shell
(2) It says something about creating a symlink (/dev/root)
     and so I issued:
    (a) rm -fr root
    (b) ln -s /dev/root /root
    (c) exit
    And the result is the keyboard has Caps-Lock & Scroll-Lock
    LEDs flashing.  Nothing happens, so I pressed the hardware
    reset button and the system reboots.  After rebooting again,
    filling the "teardrop" again, this times it falls into a shell
    again.

(3) It says something of a "non-standard" filesystem or volume
     and says that it fails to create a ramdiskfs.

Looks to me that I am unable to get F11's LiveCD to work
on my system.

I will download the DVD version and see if this works.