F12 installs report here.

[Randolph Langley]

On 11/17/2009 10:01 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> Subject says it all.  Tell us about your experience.
>
> LG
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Not good so far. The machine in question is a small Dell desktop (2.4 
P4, 512 megabytes of memory) which I use for testing.

I had installed F11 on this machine back when F11 came out, and had 
moved to KDE from Gnome.

When I went to install F12 from the KDE live-cd today, the installation 
blew up, managing to kill X and causing a shutdown. I decided to give 
the Gnome live-cd version a try, and the installer also died with a 
rather cryptic whine about LVM (perhaps due to the very unclean previous 
installation failure?) I decided to try / and swap on ordinary 
partitions rather than logical volumes, and managed to install. The 
machine stayed up for a while, but after about three hours hung in a 
very odd fashion: I could still move the mouse around the screen, but 
nothing was responding to clicks. I tried to switch virtual terminals 
with CTRL-ALT-F[2-6] and also tried to kill the X session with 
CTRL-ALT-BS, but with no success. I then did a powercycle of the machine 
and it's back up now.

Randolph