Re: F11: LiveCD problems

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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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