General disappointment with the FC5 installer

[Justin Zygmont]

I have been noticing many bugs in the installer too, you'll need some swap 
even if you already have lots of RAM and don't really need it.  Anaconda 
will bomb without it.


On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Carlos M. Gutierrez wrote:

>
> I have had problems with the FC5 install as well.
>
> I first tried a FC5 CD install. The five CDs checksumed correctly, but I got 
> many -apparently random- IDE bus errors on that CD drive and another one I 
> replaced it with.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186512
>
> It is possible that that machine has a subtle memory problem. (I have not had 
> time to run memtest on it yet)
>
> On previous releases, I used to get occasional CD errors too... but I was 
> able to hit OK on a dialog box to try the block read again and then it would 
> succeed and the install would continue happily.
>
>
> I then tried an installation from a hard-disk partition but got hit by this 
> bug:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186729
>
>
> So, finally what I did was set up another machine on the network as a 
> repository, and did the install via http. That worked.
>
>
> I have now also upgraded two machines from FC4 to FC5. I upgraded via yum, 
> and have to say that I am very happy -even surprised- with how well that all 
> went. In fact, the second one I upgraded remotely through an ssh session.
>
> For that, I found the following very helpful:
>
> http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html
> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
> http://www.makuchaku.info/blog/how-to-upgrade-from-fc4-to-fc5-via-yum
>
> Frankly, it is a great advantage to be able to update a remote machine in 
> such a way. yum rocks! :)
>
> Carlos M. Gutierrez
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>
>
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Terry Polzin wrote:
>
>> I have yet to get a NFS install to work, the client times out the server 
>> even
>> when they are two feet away and the connection is 100mb the install fails.
>> 
>> Options like ide=nodma don't appear to work so the CD-ROM drive times out 
>> due
>> to use if DMA, and the install fails.
>> 
>> These things worked great in FC2,3,4 why not now?
>> 
>> I don't have the luxury of time to sit around and pump 5 CDs into all my
>> machines.
>> 
>
>