On 8/26/2010 8:46 AM, Fulko Hew wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx > <mailto:metherid@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > On 08/25/2010 11:21 PM, Fulko Hew wrote: > > > > a) I'm disappointed that I couldn't try it in VirtualBox v3.0.8, > > but then again F13 wouldn't install there either. > > (It might work under newer VirtualBox's, but thats all I have right > > now. > > (The installation 'infinite loops during system loader phase with a > > stack trace') > > You might want to take this up with VirtualBox. Not something we test > for or control. > > > I'm going to ignore this for now. Newer versions of VirtualBox will > probably > work, but (to make a long story short) I'm stuck on F8 because I'm waiting > for KDE 4.x to be as 'user friendly' as 3.5 is; that unfortunately means > sticking to older versions of 'other' stuff too.) > > > > b) I'm glad that it does (so far) attempt to install under QEMU > > (under the virtual machine manager from Fedora 8) > > > > c) The GUI install wouldn't work, but I fell back to text install. > > Hardware specs please. > > > QEMU (or the Virtual Machine Manager) reports the Display as 'Virtual > Display - VNC server'. > What else can I look at? > > > d) I was disappointed that it would not let me select the packages > > to install (I want KDE not Gnome) > > > > More comments if I get any. > > Did you use a live images? If you did, it doesn't allow selection of > packages during installation. The non-live images do allow you select > KDE in the custom package selection screen. > > > I used 'Fedora-14-Alpha-i386-DVD.iso' > > I have to assume, that since it found something wrong/incompatible with the > VNC server provided by way of QEMU/VM, that it decided to fall back to text > mode install, and only provide the minimal installation set. ;-| > > But then again yum fails to work too, but thats because it seems the network > didn't get configured either under QEMU either. Its too bad. Older > versions > of Fedora run fine under these old VMs. > > I guess I'll just have to wait and test F14 under physical hardware... > and then hope KDE4.5 is good enough (compared to MY needs inKDE 3.5) > to make the switch. Virtualbox has never supported alpha or beta software. Xorg and kernels in Fedora, and other, development packages sometimes do not 'work'. F-14, and Rawhide, have an unsupported version of Xorg. BTW VMware usually has similar situations. -- David -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
