On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 10:19:03 -0600 Thomas Paine <painethom(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Honestly fedora is going to give you more trouble. I would install
centos if you want an rpm based install. It will save you headache when you get to the
pulse audio issues if you stay away from fedora.
I don;t know about that. I have never had trouble with Fedora
installs from 1 to 14, except when my HW was very new (iwl4965)
about two years ago. I have had some minor trouble with ubuntu. Fedora
is a leading-edge distribution and you get what you bargain for.
You can also use Ubuntu 10.10 which I am currently using.
If you want to get fedora to install download the live USB Creator and install from a
stick. Then yum update to get current.
This (update to get current) is true even for a network install
(unfortunately), even though it does not need to be.
Really, with regard to distributions, to each his/her own. My wife
prefers and uses Ubuntu: I have stuck with Fedora.
Ranjan
On 2011-02-05 11:13 AM, "Nikolaus Rath"
<Nikolaus@rath.org<mailto:Nikolaus@rath.org>> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a long term Debian and Ubuntu user and just tried to install Fedora
> 14. I want to share a couple of impressions:
>
> I don't have a CD writer at hand, so I downloaded the netinstall image.
> Following the instructions in the installation guide, I copied vmlinuz
> and initrd.img from the .iso and bootet into it using my existing grub2
> setup.
>
> The first surprise came when the installer asked me where to install
> from. I downloaded the network image, so I thought it'd be obvious that
> I wanted to install from the network.
>
> Lacking any URL or NFS server address, I figured that maybe the
> installer is asking for the netinstall image itself? That'd be weird,
> but seemed the most reasonable explanation.
>
> Unfortunately, I am not able to use the downloaded disk image because
> at this point the installer doesn't have LVM support. Brr.
>
> Rebooted, copied the network image into NFS share, booted into the
> installer again.
>
> Now the installer reports that it can't mount the share. This is
> obviously wrong, because if I try to specify the filename of the
> netimage rather than just the directory, the installer complains that
> this isn't the right file.
>
> Grmbl. Reboot, read the documentation again. Ok, apparently I should be
> able to manually enter the URL of a Fedora mirror. So I grab I piece of
> paper and write down
>
>
http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/fedora/releases/14/Fedora/x86_86/os/
>
> Reboot, back into the installer. I am wondering why the hell I have to
> enter this. The installer knows what I'm trying to install, and it should be
> able to figure out where the closest mirror is.
>
> Crash. I forgot that I downloaded the netboot image for i386. Why isn't
> the installer warning me that install.img that it downloaded doesn't
> work with the booted kernel?
>
> Reboot, typed the correct address. Now I'm in a graphical mode that
> knows LVM.
>
> I'm warned about the installer not being able to update my existing
> installation, but there is no existing Fedora installation. Well,
> whatever.
>
> Now the installer asks for the password of my LUKS encrypted swap
> partition. Unfortunately the password is chosen at random on every boot.
> It gives a really scary error message that it will not be able to use
> this storage device which doesn't seem appropriate to me.
>
> I chose manual partitioning. The installer asks me for the LUKS password
> again and gives a scary error again. Now I'm trying to use the swap
> partition for Fedora as well. I double click on it, and select "format
> as swap", "encrypted". Doesn't seem to have any effect, there is
no
> indication that Fedora will actually use the device, and when I'm
> reopening the dialog then my settings are gone.
>
> Alright, so I'll do without swap for now. Next thing the installer
> complains that I cannot put my root partition into LVM2. This works just
> fine with Grub2, and isn't Fedora supposed to be cutting edge? Anyway,
> so I try to create a primary /boot partition instead.
>
> There is 128 MB of free space. I tell the installer to use all the space
> that's available. It claims that there is not enough space left.
>
> At this point I just got too annoyed. Am I just extremely unlucky or is
> a Fedora installation always that painful?
>
>
> Best,
>
>
> -Nikolaus
>
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