On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 14:53 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: > This extremely welcome installation guide is wonderful! With relatively > little time and effort, I was able to zero in on the requirements for > doing a medialess install on an existing system that has the Grub > bootloader, and it was a great experience. Too bad Anaconda crashed > while creating the encrypted filesystem, but the intelligence of the bug > reporting process for Bugzilla is amazing. The installer found an > existing bug for this crash automagically, and added my traceback to the > bug as a comment. This is quite heartening. It means a serious bug is > more likely to get rapid attention because there is sufficient traceback > detail posted to pinpoint the error. > > The Installation Guide section on Cobbler needs to be rewritten. First > off, I can and did simply mount my entire *DVD.iso image to an http (web > document) directory simply and quickly using the mount command. The > Guide does not explain what Cobbler does, and why I might want to use > it. It gives the impression that one must use Cobbler to do an http > install. The guide should mention that for the http installation > message, it is sufficient to mount the iso image to an web document > directory and all will be well. That would seem to match the Red Hat > Enterprise Linux documentation I've read, although the last time I had > to review that was a long while ago. > > So, I didn't have to read the entire Guide through from page 1. I was > able to locate the information I wanted quickly and use it quickly. That > is one indication of a very promising, well-done document. Thanks for the feedback Bob! I've experienced the same issue. While the DVD procedure you outlined is noted in section 3.5.1 [1], the section on preparing an installation server [2] could provide more details (or point to offsite cobbler documentation). [1] http://rlandmann.fedorapeople.org/Installation% 20Guide/en-US/html/s1-steps-network-installs-x86.html#d0e1471 [2] http://rlandmann.fedorapeople.org/Installation% 20Guide/en-US/html/ap-install-server.html#sn-install-cobbler Thanks, James > Adam Williamson wrote: > > Hi, folks! > > > > Every release, the dedicated volunteers in the Documentation team > > produce the Fedora Installation Guide, an exhaustive and detailed guide > > to installing Fedora. For Fedora 11, they have asked us in the QA team > > to co-ordinate 'testing' of the Installation Guide. By doing > > installations following the instructions in the Installation Guide, we > > can find issues in both the Guide and the installation process itself, > > and thus improve both. > > > > So, I have written up an installation guide 'Test Case' here: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_installguide > > > > As you can see, essentially what we'd like you to do is to take a look > > at the Fedora 11 Installation Guide as it currently stands - it's at > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/ - and try installing either > > Fedora 11 Beta or current Rawhide according to the instructions found in > > the Installation Guide. Report any problems you find - any bugs in the > > installer itself, or errors or missing information or bits where what's > > written in the guide doesn't correspond to what you see in the actual > > installer - to Bugzilla. > > > > As this is a wide-ranging case which doesn't involve any particular > > component or developer, we aren't running a Test Day for this, but > > instead would like it to be an ongoing process throughout the rest of > > the Fedora 11 release cycle. Please, if you have the spare time and > > resources, try and take part in this testing! Please discuss any > > questions, problems or issues as a reply to this thread. Thanks! > >
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