Kudo's again to the Fedora Team

[Kevin Foster]

I'll agree I have done two upgrades on two seperate pieces of hardware 
without problems. Well only problems that I created myself! ;-)

On 6/28/05, Ted Kaczmarek <tedkaz at optonline.net> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 13:43 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > Ted Kaczmarek wrote:
> >
> > > Finished my yum upgrade yesterday and FC4 is another great leap 
> forward.
> > > Only issue I had was I needed to upgrade minitrd from FC3 version to 
> FC4
> > > version, otherwise the yum upgrade faq was right on.
> > >
> > > Thanks out to the whole team for making computing so enjoyable.
> >
> > Sadly I have to disagree.
> > I have upgraded from FC-3 to FC-4 on 5 rather different computers,
> > and had serious problems on 3 of the 5,
> > and a lesser problem on a fourth (with the x86_64 distribution).
> >
> > My experience is that Fedora is getting worse from this point of view -
> > ability to upgrade or install - not better.
> >
> > My latest problem was with a Sony Picturebook C1VFK.
> > I started to upgrade using CDs, duly checked.
> > I gave the magic command "linux text ide1=0x180,0x386"
> > as advised in the Release Notes.
> > (Well, I had to add the "text" because when I tried
> > using the standard graphics installation
> > the bottom of the pages did not appear on my (small) screen,
> > and there did not appear to be any way to get to them.)
> >
> > In any case, the above command allowed me to boot from CD#1,
> > and to start the upgrade from this CD.
> > However, the installation bombed out when the time came
> > to put in CD#2.
> > This left the machine in a fairly unusable state.
> > Fortunately I was able to use "yum update"
> > to install the rest of the distribution.
> > (This took 9 hours.)
> >
> > I like Fedora once it is installed and running.
> > But why oh why can't the Anaconda team
> > look at the other Linux distributions,
> > and see what it is they are doing right
> > and Anaconda is doing wrong?
> >
> > I've filed bugzillas about the problems I've encountered
> > over the years with Fedora,
> > but never had the impression anyone felt it was their job
> > to try to get Fedora working on different machines.
> > I've actually been told on several occasions
> > that my problem is that I am using "non-standard" hardware.
> >
> > I have to admit that one thing does now work on my Picturebook
> > which hasn't worked for a year or more -
> > the latest version of X (xorg-x11) has corrected a bug
> > which prevented it running on this machine.
> > There has been a patch available for a couple of years,
> > and I've had to re-compile X with the patch included, until now,
> > despite myself and others pointing out in bugzillas and elsewhere
> > that it was necessary to apply this (tiny) patch.
> >
> I had no major issues other than needed a new version of mkinitrd on my
> tyan 2462 smp mobo and my sager laptop upgraded like a breeze. Yum is a
> most wonderful tool :-)
> 
> Ted
> 
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