It might, if I had a Fedora 17 ISO or installer on my network. I am just downloading the netinst iso, in the hope I can get a working OS on this laptop. I do have a CentOS mirror locally, and noticed 6.4 has started to come in. That is my other option right now. On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Eddie O'Connor <eoconnor25@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What about installing F17....& doing the " fedup" procedure?... might that > work?.... > > On Mar 11, 2013 12:32 AM, "Dan Irwin" <rummymobile@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> So I'm trying to get F18 onto my new Dell laptop (e6530). Not >> surprisingly, it's not working. >> >> The installer won't let me install. It won't find free space. It won't >> shrink partitions. >> >> I even dropped to a shell, and used fdisk to blow away my windows 7 >> partition, and the installer still doesn't work properly! >> >> I have now tried to manually partition, and the installer tells me >> "Error checking storage configuration". >> >> I have not had issues like this installing Linux since the mid 1990s. >> And even then, I was able to complete and install. Today, in 2013, >> with all the knowledge and experience I have, I cannot seem to get F18 >> onto my laptop. >> >> In frustration, I went and installed a F18 VM on my old laptop. When >> the VM has an empty, unpartitioned disk, the install worked perfectly. >> >> Why has this been broken so bad? What was so bad about the old >> installer? The ability to manually create LVMs and partitions would is >> a panacea compared to this mess in F18. Seriously. This is pathetic. >> >> So, right now, I have a laptop without any OS. Useful! >> >> Notes: >> >> Yeah, I should have beta tested. But that was hard considering I only >> received my new laptop on Friday. >> I'm not blaming anyone for my deletion of my own OS. >> Fedora should not outright remove and replace features, and expect to >> have such features restorred within the usual 6 month release >> schedule. Who the hell signed off on this? >> Linux distros need to learn to not cater for novices. If you can't >> partition, you shouldn't be running Linux. >> >> As this has descended into rant material, I am going to choose to stop >> now. >> >> Come on Fedora, shape up. You can do better than this. >> >> Time to find a Fedora 17 ISO somewhere on my net... >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dan >> -- >> users mailing list >> users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
