Fedora stability
Neil Aggarwal
neil at JAMMConsulting.com
Wed Dec 31 17:27:40 UTC 2003
Karl:
I just download the isos for disc 1-3 and wrote them to CDs.
Then, I booted off CD #1. There was no need to do anything more.
Neil
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Karl Hakmiller
> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 11:06 AM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Fedora stability
>
>
> Did you put the FC1 isos on CDs or just have them on your HD for the
> installation? If on CDs, what bootdisk and driver files did you put
> on CD1, if any, or did you makeup bootdisk and driver
> diskettes to use?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Karl L
>
>
> On Wednesday 31 December 2003 11:43, Wade Chandler wrote:
> > I updated to RC1 from RH9.0 and have had no real issues.
> The only issue
> > I have had has been with my sound card. I can't listen to
> > Radiostorm.com right now :-(. Other than that no other
> problems. This
> > is on a Compaq Presario Desktop System with a Celeron 1.2
> Ghz. If you
> > have been using an NTFS driver you will have to upgrade that guy
> > everytime you upgrade your kernel because RH doesn't install it.
> >
> > Wade
> >
> > Karl Hakmiller wrote:
> > > I, too, have been exploring alternatives since Rh's
> announcement. I had
> > > been using Mandrake before I switched to RH about a year
> ago (first 8.2
> > > and then 9.0 - which I'm now using). I've been very
> pleased with RH from
> > > the start and kept current with all the updates in kernel
> and apps as
> > > they came along. A piece of cake to maintain.
> > >
> > > As a trial I ordered the Debian CDs (Woody, not Sarge)
> and gave the
> > > installation a try. Major pains followed. After the
> third attempt to
> > > install Debian (not as a dual-boot but all by itself on a
> Pentium II 300
> > > MHz 80 Gig Dell machine I'd been running the RH on), I
> finally gave up
> > > after messy failures. I reinstalled the RH 9.0 from original CDs,
> > > updated everything with apt-get and was back in operation
> in just over an
> > > hour.
> > >
> > > It's possible that I received bad CDs from the online
> source for my
> > > Debian OS and I may yet give it another try with isos I
> download myself
> > > but I did notice this difference between the RH and
> Debian installs: My
> > > one semi-correct install of Debian was incomplete in that
> the Network did
> > > not install (I could not get the system to recognize the
> NIC) and in RH
> > > that was never a problem).
> > >
> > > I've read the RH docs on installing Fedora and with this
> history of
> > > Debian problems, I'd sure appreciate any "heads-up"
> warnings that are not
> > > mentioned in those docs from those on this list who have
> installed Fedora
> > > from the isos.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Karl L
> > >
> > > On Wednesday 31 December 2003 10:38, Krikket wrote:
> > >>On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Mark Haney wrote:
> > >>>Okay, kind of a stupid and maybe useless question, but
> as I"ve been
> > >>>really tinkering with (gasp!) SUSE, I'm kind of
> wondering how stable FC1
> > >>>really is? I mean I realize there are issues, otherwise
> this list
> > >>>wouldn't be very useful, but how well does it work as a
> Workstation (not
> > >>>server) as compared with any other distros especially RH9?
> > >>
> > >>I can't compare to RH9, but I *can* compare it to SuSE 9.0
> > >>
> > >>Don't switch to SuSE. Trust me on this one. Baaad juju.
> After seing
> > >>what was available, I decided to go with SuSE for my
> first real exposure
> > >>to Linux in 6+ years. (And I had no experience with a
> Linux GUI at that
> > >>point.)
> > >>
> > >>If you needs are met 100% by what's available on the
> distro CDs, then
> > >> SuSE could work for you. But adding anything else? Damn near
> > >> impossible. There are some things I *couldn't* get
> installed under SuSE,
> > >> that were a breeze with Fedora. I'm not the only one
> wih those problems
> > >> either.
> > >>
> > >>On the positive side, there are more GUI controls for
> things. So if
> > >>that's what you're looking for, then maybe it's for you.
> > >>
> > >>Also you can *forget* right now about editing files by
> hand and expecting
> > >>them to stay that way, and work correctly. The SuSE
> likes to rewrite
> > >>stuff on you without warning.
> > >>
> > >>In short, the problems I had with SuSE 9.0 were great
> enough that I
> > >>abandoned it, even though I paid the $80 for the
> Professional version.
> > >>
> > >>Using Fedora, I've had a *lot* fewer problems.
> > >>
> > >>Krikket
> > >>
> > >>
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