On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 15:54 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > I realize it's been a while since F19 was released but I finally got > around to do a server install. Since there have been a few negative > reviews here of the installation process I thought it might be nice to > have a mostly positive one. Here are my observations: > > VLAN setup for installing! Yay! However, after rebooting, > NetworkManager wasn't able to bring it up, something about not knowing > the "virtual interface name". Turned out to be the ethernet interface > name changed from what it was at install time. This would be the rather brown-paper-bag-ish https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=965718 . Last I checked we were still working out the precise implications of that one. This sounds like another of them. > Didn't detect my timezone. Not a big deal, but I was hoping it would > since there's been some discussion here about it working. We'd probably need the apparent public IP address of the system you were installing on to debug this one. > I'm reinstalling an existing server, so used the custom partitioning. > The only problem I had here was that I clicked on the existing /home > partition to add it to the new install but then couldn't figure out what > to do. All I saw on the right was lots of disabled form items. > Eventually I read the instructions carefully You damn dirty liar. You are CLEARLY not a Fedora user. > and then looked at the > mount point entry again and saw that it wasn't disabled. I wonder if > there is some way to make it more obvious... Trumpets? :) > After starting the install, I went to enter the root password. As I was > doing so, the interface appeared to freeze. I switched through the > consoles and when I got back the interface was working again and the > keys that I had typed had shown up. Yeah, that happens sometimes. I've never bothered reporting it, but if you do I'll subscribe to your newsletter. I think the root PW UI can block on partitioning operations happening behind it. > One odd thing I noticed while > cycling through the consoles was that console 6 had a login prompt on > it. I didn't actually try logging in. > > The progress bar is strange. All the package installing barely made it > past a quarter of the way. That progress info is coming straight from yum (it's basically the same 'progress' you get when doing a 'yum update'). Because it still has to do its "verify" and "clean" steps, yeah, you're a long way behind 100% when it's just done "installing". Remember, there are lies, damn lies, statistics, and progress bars... > Other than the ethernet interface naming issue, just minor cosmetic > issues. Thanks to everybody involved in getting the installer in such > nice shape. Glad you enjoyed it! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
