Installation Impressions

Sun Feb 6 03:50:12 UTC 2011

i do believe you have had an unfortunate and rare  occurrence while installing the most advanced linux OS

i have been installing fedora since fedora 8 came out and up until the latest ubuntu came out (10.10) Fedora has been much easier for me personally to install. Usually taking a max of 3 hrs total to to install the os.

methods of installation i have tried:
USB Boot image of fedora 10 - 14 Gnome and kde
Live Image of fedora 8 - 14 Gnome, kde and lxde
Dvd image of Fedora 9 - 14 Gnome and Kde

Current system:
Phenom II X4 945 clock: 3.06Ghz
G.Skill 8gb ddr2 pc 8500 1066mhz (4 * 2gb)
ATI HD 4670 512mb ddr5 pci-e16x
HDD1 Sata3gb  320gb WD |Partitions: 4; Windows 7 ultimate 64; Fedora 14; JULinux8Stable
HDD2 Sata3gb 1tb WD |Partitions: 1;ntfs formatted storage
HDD3 Sata3gb 1tb WD |Partitions: 1;ntfs formatted storage
HDD4 Sata6gb 1tb WD |Partitions: 1;ntfs formatted storage
ASUS 21.5in HD LCD Monitor
ASUS 21.5in HD LCD Monitor
ASUS N Wifi pci-e1x
ASUS BT USB Doggle
ASUS CD/DVD Combo Burner
ASUS M4A78-EM Motherboard
Antec 650 Earthwatts PSU
Xigmatec Utgard mesh case
Next 5 fan controller
Next 5 fan controller
Logitech Trackman wired mouse 
Microsoft/Razor Recluse keyboard
Planar 21.5in touchpanel monitor ( touch keyboard interface i designed) :P

the main drive hosting the operating systems hosts 3 different operating systems but each operating system are optimized and tweaked to emulate the same full functionality and compatability that the windows 7 ultimate offers.

Note: Julinux is based on Ubuntu

i'd advise getting a usb drive and visiting fedoras documentation pages to get the app specifically for making fedora usb images to get through your difficulties with ease. 

> From: Nikolaus at rath.org
> Subject: Installation Impressions       
> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:54:34 -0500
> To: 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm a long term Debian and Ubuntu user and just tried to install Fedora
> 14. I want to share a couple of impressions:
> 
> I don't have a CD writer at hand, so I downloaded the netinstall image.
> Following the instructions in the installation guide, I copied vmlinuz
> and initrd.img from the .iso and bootet into it using my existing grub2
> setup.
> 
> The first surprise came when the installer asked me where to install
> from. I downloaded the network image, so I thought it'd be obvious that
> I wanted to install from the network.
> 
> Lacking any URL or NFS server address, I figured that maybe the
> installer is asking for the netinstall image itself? That'd be weird,
> but seemed the most reasonable explanation.
> 
> Unfortunately, I am not able to use the downloaded disk image because
> at this point the installer doesn't have LVM support. Brr.
> 
> Rebooted, copied the network image into NFS share, booted into the
> installer again.
> 
> Now the installer reports that it can't mount the share. This is
> obviously wrong, because if I try to specify the filename of the
> netimage rather than just the directory, the installer complains that
> this isn't the right file.
> 
> Grmbl. Reboot, read the documentation again. Ok, apparently I should be
> able to manually enter the URL of a Fedora mirror. So I grab I piece of
> paper and write down
> 
> http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/fedora/releases/14/Fedora/x86_86/os/
> 
> Reboot, back into the installer. I am wondering why the hell I have to
> enter this. The installer knows what I'm trying to install, and it should be
> able to figure out where the closest mirror is.
> 
> Crash. I forgot that I downloaded the netboot image for i386. Why isn't
> the installer warning me that install.img that it downloaded doesn't
> work with the booted kernel?
> 
> Reboot, typed the correct address. Now I'm in a graphical mode that
> knows LVM.
> 
> I'm warned about the installer not being able to update my existing
> installation, but there is no existing Fedora installation. Well,
> whatever.
> 
> Now the installer asks for the password of my LUKS encrypted swap
> partition. Unfortunately the password is chosen at random on every boot.
> It gives a really scary error message that it will not be able to use
> this storage device which doesn't seem appropriate to me.
> 
> I chose manual partitioning. The installer asks me for the LUKS password
> again and gives a scary error again. Now I'm trying to use the swap
> partition for Fedora as well. I double click on it, and select "format
> as swap", "encrypted". Doesn't seem to have any effect, there is no
> indication that Fedora will actually use the device, and when I'm
> reopening the dialog then my settings are gone.
> 
> Alright, so I'll do without swap for now. Next thing the installer
> complains that I cannot put my root partition into LVM2. This works just
> fine with Grub2, and isn't Fedora supposed to be cutting edge? Anyway,
> so I try to create a primary /boot partition instead.
> 
> There is 128 MB of free space. I tell the installer to use all the space
> that's available. It claims that there is not enough space left. 
> 
> At this point I just got too annoyed. Am I just extremely unlucky or is
> a Fedora installation always that painful?
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> 
>    -Nikolaus
> 
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