On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 20:37 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: > Well, to answer my own question: you cannot use the version of > install.img which is on the Fedora 12 x86_64 DVD. You can certainly dd > the image to the USB stick, but after that the stick can't be > automagically mounted (it generates SELinux errors in enforcing mode and > one gets false error messages that the device is write-protected.) Nor > can you boot to it. > > Just to make sure of this, I used dd to put an archlinux netinstall > image on the same USB stick, and it booted just fine. > > So I reluctantly burned the DVD and used that to install the Alpha. > Obviously, the installer isn't working right: X failed to start, Well, that doesn't mean the installer's broken. It could mean X is broken. :) What's your hardware? > and it > booted into a text-mode installation. I had no opportunity to do hard > drive partitioning and there was likewise no chance to select packages > or package groups, either. The text mode installer is blindingly fast: > it installed 184 packages (count 'em, 184!) which is almost nothing, and > left me with a glorious non-X, non-graphical, runlevel 3 installation > that doesn't even do firstboot. > > I ran `yum update` and updated most of these packages -- all except > dhclient and one of it's dependencies. > > Then I tried to `yum groupinstall` X but many of the packages needed > couldn't be found by yum. I even installed yum-presto to see if the > needed packages were available as drpm's. Rawhide is rather broken at the moment due to OpenSSL excitement, that could be related. > At that point, I gave up on the Alpha. I know it will improve in time so > I'm not at all whining. > > Seeing the opportunity, I had a ball installing Arch Linux on that hard > drive. I don't know why others might think Arch is ahead of Fedora...I > only got a 2.6.30 kernel from their 2009.08 release, Well, kernel 2.6.31 hasn't actually been released yet, in all fairness. We're shipping pre-release versions of it in Rawhide. I wouldn't expect any 'stable' distro to ship a pre-release kernel (though hey, we did it in Mandriva more than once...) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
