Signs of Life in Rawhide Install

[G.Wolfe Woodbury]

On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:29:42 -0500, Todd wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX
> N2469R<caf at omen.com> wrote:
>> Finally was able to install Rawhide on one of my machines, the ECS
>> motherboard with AMD 6000 and ATI video card.
>>
>> The X cursor did not appear for the first few screens after the X
>> server started.  So I had to use the tab key.  Then the cursor started
>> working sort of. By the end of installation the X cursor was working
>> normally.
>>
>> Anaconda could not do an automatic install on a drive that was all
>> FreeBSD. Using custom disk layout to do the partitioning got around
>> that issue. Booting to an EXT4 partition worked.
>>
>> The booted Linux did not run the onceonly script.  I had to use the
>> console tty login to add a user.  Haven't had a chance to thrash the
>> system but at least I get a Gnome screen.
>>
>> My main office machine still goes dark when the install gets to the
>> point of asking for language (I presume).  The machine with Intel GPU
>> switches to a mode that its monitor complains about.  What I need is a
>> pxeboot vga cheat code that tells the install process to leave the VGA
>> in default 80x25 mode until the X server is started.  Does such a code
>> exist?

> I had a similar experience with the mouse pointer.  Anyone know if there
> is a new bug report?
> 
> This is the first F12 installer I have gotten to work.
> 
My experience was that the installer started (no mouse pointer until 
after the disk druid) but then the install double faulted activating the 
disk layout -- exception, then exception when "file bug" selected.

Could not save either exception report.

Re-boot showed that some of the partitions had been damaged so a re-
install of F11 is taking place.  Could not properly get Everything and/or 
updates to mount from the same NFS partition as the Fedora Installation 
Repo.

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G.Wolfe Woodbury