About that installer...

[Dan Irwin]

It might, if I had a Fedora 17 ISO or installer on my network.

I am just downloading the netinst iso, in the hope I can get a working
OS on this laptop.

I do have a CentOS mirror locally, and noticed 6.4 has started to come
in. That is my other option right now.


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Eddie O'Connor <eoconnor25 at gmail.com> wrote:
> What about installing F17....& doing the " fedup" procedure?... might that
> work?....
>
> On Mar 11, 2013 12:32 AM, "Dan Irwin" <rummymobile at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> So I'm trying to get F18 onto my new Dell laptop (e6530). Not
>> surprisingly, it's not working.
>>
>> The installer won't let me install. It won't find free space. It won't
>> shrink partitions.
>>
>> I even dropped to a shell, and used fdisk to blow away my windows 7
>> partition, and the installer still doesn't work properly!
>>
>> I have now tried to manually partition, and the installer tells me
>> "Error checking storage configuration".
>>
>> I have not had issues like this installing Linux since the mid 1990s.
>> And even then, I was able to complete and install. Today, in 2013,
>> with all the knowledge and experience I have, I cannot seem to get F18
>> onto my laptop.
>>
>> In frustration, I went and installed a F18 VM on my old laptop. When
>> the VM has an empty, unpartitioned disk, the install worked perfectly.
>>
>> Why has this been broken so bad? What was so bad about the old
>> installer? The ability to manually create LVMs and partitions would is
>> a panacea compared to this mess in F18. Seriously. This is pathetic.
>>
>> So, right now, I have a laptop without any OS. Useful!
>>
>> Notes:
>>
>> Yeah, I should have beta tested. But that was hard considering I only
>> received my new laptop on Friday.
>> I'm not blaming anyone for my deletion of my own OS.
>> Fedora should not outright remove and replace features, and expect to
>> have such features restorred within the usual 6 month release
>> schedule. Who the hell signed off on this?
>> Linux distros need to learn to not cater for novices. If you can't
>> partition, you shouldn't be running Linux.
>>
>> As this has descended into rant material, I am going to choose to stop
>> now.
>>
>> Come on Fedora, shape up. You can do better than this.
>>
>> Time to find a Fedora 17 ISO somewhere on my net...
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dan
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