Installing with F20 installer report (and failure)

[Sudhir Khanger]

On Thursday, May 29, 2014 02:19:55 PM lee wrote:
> Sudhir Khanger <sudhir at sudhirkhanger.com> writes:
> > On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 08:24:09 PM lee wrote:
> >> The built-in dedicated graphics card is not used but not switched off,
> >> either.  The resulting power drain would make it impossible to complete
> >> the installation on battery power.
> > 
> > Because the dual graphic card support came in later Kernels than the one
> > shipped with Fedora 20.
> 
> Hm, are such cards going to be supported soon?  So far, I haven`t been
> able to use it at all because when I switch, there is no output to the
> screen anymore.
> 

Recent Kernels do support power management to turn off dedicated graphic 
cards. It being able to automagically switch graphic card for GPU load is a 
long shot at the moment.

Nouveau doesn't even work on my system. It floods my system with messages [1] 
which makes it impossible to get to the desktop. I use Nvidia binary drivers 
through Bumblebee which works fine.

> >> Language selection is confusing because you have to discover the
> >> Continue button, which is located out of sight far off at the right edge
> >> of the screen.
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> >> Why is the Done button so inconveniently placed at the left top of the
> >> screen?  Why not out of sight like the Continue button, or better, under
> >> the "Add a disk" button ...
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> >> I don`t like this installer ...
> > 
> > I concur. I certainly don't like the work flow of Anaconda where you have
> > continue button on top-left corner. It breaks the intuitive linear flow
> > that you would expect from an installer. It feels like going one step
> > forward and two step backwards. I certainly don't prefer an ugly GTK+
> > installer to install Fedora KDE.
> 
> After all, I think it`s little things that might be improved over time.
> And the installer really has become much better already.
> 
> More importantly, the system doesn`t boot.  Any ideas how to install
> Fedora with the setup I described so that it boots, or how to get it to
> boot?

The docs tell me it is quite possible to create RAID partition using Anaconda.

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Installation_Guide/Create_Software_RAID-x86.html

 http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Installation_Guide/Create_Software_RAID-x86.html

>Why is LVM a default "Partition scheme" (whatever that means)?  I have
>no use for lvm.

>Let`s say "I want more space" ... and "Standard Partition" (whatever
>that is) and "Encrypt my data and set a passphrase later".

>Continue and I`m asked for a passphrase!  That was supposed to happen
>LATER, not NOW ...  So enter a passphrase ...  Now I can either "Cancel"
>or "Save Passphrase".  Seriously?  Where is my passphrase saved?  I
>suppose I could as well write it on a sticker and glue it to the monitor

Why do you want to use RAID-1 when you say that you have no idea what LVM or 
even Standard Partitions are? And same goes for employing full-disk 
encryption. If you don't know what to do with passphrase, you will inevitably 
use your data permanently and blame Fedora.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085478

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