On Wed November 29 2006 3:21 pm, Redefined Horizons wrote:
Also, when moving through the installation process it didn't
seem that Fedora recognized my Debian system when it came time
to configure Grub. I accepted the default configuration for
Grub, because I couldn't find a way to add the Debian as one
of the bootloader options.
You can't add your Debian OS during Fedora's installation. You'll
have to edit grub.conf after you're up to include the Debian in
the options - a source of many recent complaints I've come upon
in Fedora reviews. It's pretty easy to add your other Linux to
the grub.conf file - do a google on it for plenty of info
However, it appears that Grub didn't overwrite my MBR entries
for Debian, becuase after I bailed on the Fedora install Grub
loaded Debian with no problems. Did I miss something during
the install, or should Fedora have notified me that it saw
Debian when it was configuring Grub?
Fedora installs write the grub to the MBR near the very end of
the whole process - you never got that far
I'm not at trying to complain in any way. I'm just want to
learn what I can about Fedora, and provide some positive
feedback. :]
A problem I had with one of my installs is that it kept reporting
it couldn't read such and such a file on the DVD - it offered
a 'retry' option, and that always got me past that, though it
sometimes took several tries.
I hope that the Fedora team really focusses on fixing all these
installation issues for FC7 - it's a big negative for an
otherwise great distro - whether it's read failures, broken
media checks, grub not being written to the MBR, etc... The
process is more like gambling... Other distros don't seem to
have as big a cluster of problems at install phase, so my guess
is it's just something waiting to be addressed.
--
Claude Jones
Brunswick, Md, USA