About that installer...

[Eddie O'Connor]

I would go with CentOS then......less headaches.....at least IMHO....
On Mar 11, 2013 12:59 AM, "Dan Irwin" <rummymobile at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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