[NBLUG/talk] Fedora Install help

[Dave Sisley]

Walter Coole wrote:
> Would anyone know what I'm doing wrong with a Fedora 7 install?
>
> The current symptom is that I select "Install or Update an existing 
> System", the screen blanks and the message at the top says "LOADING"; 
> I'm fairly patient, but after 16hrs of no change, I'm thinking it's stuck.
>
>   
I concur!  16 hours seems a tad much.

I'm not sure I can really help, but did you actually select one of: 
Install OR Upgrade? or did it get stuck before you selected one or the 
other?  If you selected Upgrade, what was it that you were upgrading 
from?  I have very limited (and unpleasant) experience from the couple 
of times I tried upgrading.  Those attempts were with Pre-Fedora 7 
versions.  I now tend to backup the data I'll need and do a fresh install.

Another dumb question - you do have an x86_64 machine, right?  I've 
gotten that confused myself.
> This is a DVD I burnt from the x86_64 iso from the UC Davis mirror.  The 
> SHA was OK and the disk passes the FC6 media check, so I don't think 
> it's a simple data error.  I'm thinking of downloading the Fedora 8 
> image, but my DSL is doing a fine impression of a tree sloth, so in the 
> meantime, I'm hoping someone less clueless than I can give me some guidance.
>
> Maybe I should go to the next InstallFest, but I'm kind of vague about 
> when that might be.
>   
As Installfest coordinator, I can tell you we were hoping to have one at 
the end of the semester at SSU, but the scheduling did not work out.  
It's possible we will have one some time during the summer, or at the 
beginning of the next school calendar.
> In case anyone's interested, my end goal is virtualization: a couple of 
> Fedora hosts and a couple of Windoze hosts running on a single hardware 
> box.  My current approach is Xen, with Fedora 7 as the host OS, but 
> given my repeated failures, I'm open to other approaches.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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