Christopher A. Williams wrote, On 11/16/2008 03:25 PM:
Installation was a nightmare (as witnessed by a friend who also frequents this list). The main thing that was wrong was video. Simply put, it just doesn't work
Point taken. Looks like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465634 (which also suggests boot parameter "xdriver=vesa" as temporary workaround)
Let's hope it gets fixed.
2) Running the autologin loads a session, which immediately goes to a blanked out white screen after trying to load 2 "untitled" windows (not sure what these are), but just makes the desktop unusable. You must switch to runlevel 3, login as root, load X, and then install.
So this is with vesa? It looks like a separate problem. But I don't understand exactly how you get it. And what you call "must" is a workaround that worked for you? I suggest you file this issue in bugzilla.
3) Prior to installing, the hard disk MUST BE MANUALLY PARTITIONED with fdisk such that ALL partitions are removed. If partitions exist on thedrive, the installer fails when trying to re-partition the drive.
That is not what other testers see. How did you see the failure? Any exact messages? How did you reach your conclusion?
4) Something in the installation process takes a REALLY LONG TIME to finish (I mean 20 minutes or more). I later found out that it has something to do with kernel install / updates.
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First, run all of the rawhide patches. ANOTHER PROBLEM - the kernel update alone took over 20 minutes to complete. Why??? It only seemed to move forward after I put selinux into permissive mode - at which point several hal oriented messages came through. I think this is also why the last part of the install took 20 minutes (looking like it was dead atthe time).
That is not what other testers see. Could you try to run something likemkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-109.fc10.i686.img 2.6.27.5-109.fc10.i686
and see if that takes 20 minutes - and which part of it that takes time?
* Flash works kind of - there's no sound.
64 bit machine or Flash 9? http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10preview/en_US/What_is_the_Latest_on_the_Desktop.html#sn-Web_browsers
* Speaking of sound, the sound tests work, but I don't actually GET any sound to play until a few seconds after something tries to play. Thus, the login sound never gets heard, neither does the logoff sound, etc.
File a bug. /Mads
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