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Fedora 9 a Bit Behind the Curve On Installation
bsk_cw writes "Today, many Linux users are getting blasé about the ease with which they can install Linux. Possibly, they've been spoiled by distributions such as Ubuntu, which is actually easier to install than Windows. Unfortunately, Fedora 9, the latest version of this community edition of Red Hat, was a bit too much of a blast from the past for Computerworld's James Turner." (Except for bits about the installation, the review is actually quite positive.)
Installing Windows on most IDE/SATA interfaces cards requires a floppy. Grub does not require a floppy to reinstall, at least not for Fedora.
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Last time I tried Fedora/RedHat I was totally put off by the performance of the package management system. Not only did I experience RPM-hell with dependency shit but it was slow as hell. I mean the package manager would sit there and bring my computer to its knees for a long freaking time.
Not too good if you ask me. But hell who needs Fedora anyway when there are much better distros without that RPM crap.
Super Grub Disk is a nice way to semi-automatically reinstall GRUB.
It also teaches you the commands, and tells you what it's doing. Very cool little ISO file.
I have never had Windows fail to install for any reason..
While the plural of anecdote is not data, I think I know what the GP is talking about and have experienced it myself.
There are some known AHCI problems with a common ATI southbridge chipset which made installing Vista impossible unless you first disable AHCI (I assume this is what the GP meant by having to dumb-down BIOS settings).
So, lets try XP I thought. Too bad it has no drivers for the sata controller at all, and I have no floppy drive. I ended up having to inject the controller drivers into the XP CD and re-burn it. The XP installer then saw my disk in IDE mode, but not AHCI mode..
I gave up and left the controller in IDE mode.
For reference, Ubuntu 7.10 had no trouble on the same machine.
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Installing Windows on most IDE/SATA interfaces cards requires a floppy.
I think SP2 slipstreamed into the install disk recognizes SATA and SAS. Or you could slipstream the drivers themselves, which I don't recommend to anybody who isn't comfortable mucking with inf files.
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http://mirror.umoss.org/fedora/releases/9/Fedora/i386/iso/ There's also a live CD.
try the livecd image.
you can boot straight up into it, and theres a double-click 'install to hard drive' desktop icon.
single cd image, and once installed, you can pick and choose additional packages from the public repositories.
It's not like the installer has changed much since then either...
;)
but it's still easier to install than windows!
2 days ago, I installed slackware 12.1, and moved the raid from the older server... took me less than 1 hour to complete all tasks, and had a running server...
All hail to the slackware god!
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No, it doesn't. I have had SATA since 2003 and never had to install a disc for this reason. For Vista, all you do is boot off the cd, put in your key and let it install. There are no choices to make (which may or may not be good, but it is easy) and its simple to do.
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