Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
For the first time, I have booted off the LiveCD
and I notice several problems:
(1) The GUI screen starts up with the "teardrop", completes
filling it up, and then it drops into a shell
(2) It says something about creating a symlink (/dev/root)
and so I issued:
(a) rm -fr root
(b) ln -s /dev/root /root
(c) exit
And the result is the keyboard has Caps-Lock & Scroll-Lock
LEDs flashing. Nothing happens, so I pressed the hardware
reset button and the system reboots. After rebooting again,
filling the "teardrop" again, this times it falls into a shell
again.
(3) It says something of a "non-standard" filesystem or volume
and says that it fails to create a ramdiskfs.
Looks to me that I am unable to get F11's LiveCD to work
on my system.
I will download the DVD version and see if this works.
Due to pure luck, I was able to get a GUI screen up and running
but unfortunately I am unable to install anything because LiveCD
could not locate a single drive via fdisk. I was looking to see if
any program could locate any of my 3 hard drives in my system,
and it turns out that:
System->Administration->"Volume Manager" (I forget the actual name)
located 2 of my 3 drives:
/dev/sdb1-7 (320GB SATA disk) [Windows Disk] <not available>
/dev/sdc1 (320GB PATA disk) [Windows Disk] <not available>
But it could not locate:
/dev/sda1-15 (Seagate 1TB SATA disk) [Fedora/Ubuntu/Debian] (BRAND NEW)
The 1TB drive already has F8 & F9 installed.
What is also interesting is, that when I opened up a terminal
window, fdisk does not work. It cannot locate any disk drives
as found above by the "volume manager"
I tried all of them:
fdisk -l /dev/sda1 -> 15 (no output)
fdisk -l /dev/sdb1 -> 7 (no output)
fdisk -l /dev/sdc1 (no output)
I proceeded to try to install via the Install icon, but it
throws up a Bugzilla crash report when attempts were
made to locate a "Storage Device". Since I could not
save the Bugzilla report, I looked into it and it says
that it is unable to open /dev/sda - my 1TB drive
which has PLENTY of space available for installs.
I could go no further - and stopped the installation.
I was however, able to access the Internet, and a few other
things within LiveCD - but not much of anything else
by way of trying to install F11 on my HD.
I also tried the F11 "Network Install CD", and I get the
same problem as above with LiveCD when attempting
to install F11.
Looks to me I am unable to install F11 and may be
forced to do things the hard way, install F10 & then
upgrade - which is a "beatch". Has anyone besides myself
and "Tim" had this problem and is anyone planning on a fix?
Meanwhile, I will move on and install UBuntu & Debian
to bide my time and hopefully F11 might someday work.
Dan
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