Michael Schwendt <mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam <at> arcor.de> writes: > Where do you see unkind or unfriendly words? "Hyperbole" is just another > word for "exaggeration", and above you did exactly that. You exaggerated > by a clear margin. Actually, all those people who can't install F8 from > media due to various problems (with unsupported hardware, undetected > drives, kernel problems e.g.) are sort of forced to wait for the next > release, which is after ~6 months. Unless there's a respin which > incorporates anaconda/kernel/... updates that fixes the people's > problems. And not many are courageous enough to try rawhide. Fedora Unity is working on a Fedora 8 respin with an updated kernel and a fixed Anaconda. And then there's also the option of bypassing the installer entirely (at least the buggy version): * install Fedora 7 (or an even older release, but upgrading from Fedora <=6 is going to be more painful due to the libata migration in Fedora 7) * yum install apt * point your /etc/apt/sources.list and/or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list to Fedora 8 * fix apt's list of "essential" packages (/etc/apt/rpmpriorities), see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426143 * apt-get update * apt-get dist-upgrade Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
