[NBLUG/talk] Fedora Install help

[Mark Street]

I have to agree with Dave on this one.  Backup the data and start fresh, if 
you can do it on FC you can do it on CentOS.. which is a hell of alot more 
stable.  Just because the HowTo was for FC doesn't make it impossible on 
CentOS.

Fedora has been a nightmare to upgrade on my Thinkpad T60p for the last few 
releases.  In fact I just upgraded my Thinkpad today from FC6 to FC9 and it 
was a bitch, with a capital B.  I couldn't even get FC7 or FC8 installers to 
run on this sucker when they came out.  I lost faith after the FC3 release of 
Fedora.

If you want to take a peek next time you are waiting on your failed install 
hit the CTRL ALT F4 and CTRL ALT F3, cycle through some of those virtual 
terms and see what's going on, I get tired after 2 minutes... 16 hours?  You 
are patient.

If you are thinking of running Xen I would probably point you to CentOS.  I 
use it for my production virtualization environment and it is rock solid.

If you want to bleed now and continue to bleed for the foreseable future keep 
using Fedora.  I like to bleed a little now and again but I have lost alot of 
blood over the years and frankly I get a little tired of it now.

As Dave said you are installing this on a x86_64 hardware right?

On Friday May 23 2008, Dave Sisley wrote:
> 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.

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