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Fedora 9 a Bit Behind the Curve On Installation

Posted by timothy on from the click-here-but-only-once dept.

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.)

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  1. Shoot! by XanC · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine what Fedora 9 would have done to UbuntuDupe's hard drive!!

  2. Swap issues by kernowyon · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I actually had a look at the link! One of the issues was -

    Finally hit ctrl-alt-return to restart the window manager and found it had hung trying to mount swap off the fstab. For some reason, the installer didn't like trying to reuse the swap partition left over from the previous install, and it made something go pear-shaped during the initial boot.
    This is something which seems to plague some Linux installs - if I recall correctly, Vector Linux (or was it Puppy?) has a similar problem with re-using swap partitions which are also used by other installed distros.
    The fact that the author managed to get things going by telling the installer to repartition the drive seems to confirm this. It is a long time since I tested Fedora, so I have no idea if this problem is common with that distro.Luckily, most users will probably not have multiple distros installed and this should not prove an issue to them.
    Kudos to the author for reporting the issue as a bug though - that may help to get this sorted for the next release.
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  3. Reading the frackin article..... by phoenixwade · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "(Except for bits about the installation, the review is actually quite positive.)"

    I must have read a different article (whupps, sorry, it's slashdot, I know I'm not supposed to RTFA, backsliding again, I suppose)

    the first page was complaints about the installer, a paragraph or two that's positive about the performance, and then a complaint that you have to buy the enterprise edition for support, because you can't buy support for Fedora...

    Didn't do much for me as a review of the new Fedora, and it certainly didn't seem like the rest was "Positive".

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  4. Re:I guess he never installed Slackware 3.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What about the old Gentoo installer?

    You know, a webpage full of instructions.

  5. Re:Of course it's easier to instal than Windows! by Shikaku · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.