FC6 seems to be a mess

[Alastair Neil]

On 10/24/06, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
>
> redhatdude at bellsouth.net wrote:
> > I upgraded from the ISOs that I downloaded today.
> > I'm backing up my settings and doing a fresh install.
> > Wish me luck :)
> > EJ
> >
>
> Good luck! My yum upgraded system seems to be working fine.
> If things still do not work, you can bugzilla the problems since yours
> will be a clean install.
>
> Jim


Well for the first time I can remember a Fedora release did not install
properly on my plain old vanilla Dell Optiplex 270.  I used a usb thumb
drive to start the install.

Installing the ata_piix driver module takes over a minute because of all the
sata time out nonsense.

After completing the install and rebooting grub was screwed up.  the
device.map was referencing (hd0) to /dev/sda instead of /dev/hda and on top
of that the entries in the grub.conf were pointed to the wrong disks too
(hd1,0), double whammy.

DHCP seemed to take an age to pick up an ip address.

The much vaunted improvements in yum dependency checks were not in evidence
during the install when the initial dependency check took an age even though
I had not customised anything.

I surprised to see that there was no X configuration during first boot, and
also surprised that it needed to reboot after first boot.

Unpleasantly it then rebooted to a command line prompt - no X.

I will try and file bugzilla reports on these tomorrow, however I'm pretty
shocked.  If I were a casual user and not a long time Fedora lag I'd run not
walk from this distro.
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