Fedora 12 Beta

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I have pushed a fedora 12 beta sparc tree the master mirror, you can find one 
close to you Here under /releases/test/12-Beta/sparc/ the tree is pretty much 
complete. there are a few broken deps that need resolving. Partitioning is 
fragile. it mostly works however sometimes you will be best off to do manual 
partitioning in rescue mode or breaking out into a shell.

Here is a quick list of some of the issues you might hit and workarounds.

serial console install - to have a console on the serial port post install 
pass "console=ttyS0,9600" to the installer

serial console install - to do any customisation at all you need to use vnc

sunblade systems with qlogic hba's for primary storage - Make sure that you do 
a graphical install (vnc or local X) or kickstart and include "hardware 
support" this is so that you have the firmware for your primary storage

install blowing up at partitioning - parted doesnt seem to like old parted 
disk labels. in rescue mode "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=512 count=2" where 
X == the valuse of each disk

partitioning is fragile - simple partitioning works fine more complicated 
setups might require you to manual use parted to setup the partitioning you 
want and then choosing custom partitiing and allocate as you need to

less than 512mb ram - using vnc you may get OOM during package install. you 
will need to either do a default install or select a smaller package set

repo issues when installing - There is not repos exactly as anaconda wants 
when doing a netinstall. you can pass repo="path to mirror" or fix up in the 
gui

Oh and partitioning is fragile, it looks like F-13 will be better

And things i've likely forgotten or missed, please drop into #fedora-sparc on 
freenode for assistance, questions or feedback.

Thanks Dennis

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