Hi All, Thought I might share some experiences installing Fedora development (as of a couple of days ago). Initially, I tried installing using the boot.iso file found using ftp. This booted fine and worked to a point. Things worth noting: I tried the graphical install and it takes forever to download the stage2.img file. There's no feedback about what's happening during this download and there were a couple of times I was sure nothing was happening. The graphical install went well until the actual time when the packages are installed. Just before downloading the packages it seems it makes a check to find the files needed to install (or maybe it's downloading them). Anyhow, it couldn't find beagle-evolution and left me with no choice but to exit the install. Maybe an opportunity to skip the package and things that depend on it should be offered). I then tried a text based install. Downloading minstg2.img (???) took a while too, but this time I was expecting it. It would still be nice to have some file downloading indication (maybe an indication of file size and percentage complete). The text install is very usable, but there no option to add other boot items to grub. You can edit the default, but not add them. Does this need to be added? Also, I did a custom install to avoid beagle-evolution, but it packed up at beecrypt (???) and I had to bail again. Also, during the text install, something 'freaked' and there was text all over the screen. The install continued, but something clearly had gone wrong at some stage. Finally, I did a install of FC6 and then after starting the first time I switched the relevant yum,.repo.d files to use development and then run yum update. At some point in the update of 625 files, during the install/update/remove stage the machine 'restarted' X. After re-logging in, then re-running yum update I got complains about gnome-python2-* files. It turns out there was some duplicates causing yum update to fail. I had to do a little manual rpm nursing to resolve (and remove the duplicates) and then all was good. Really, finally, the kernel I ended up with had network issues so I couldn't actually use the net so I've been using FC6 ever since. Hopefully this will be resolved today. R. -- "It's a fine line between denial and faith. It's much better on my side" -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list