Fedora

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:22 AM, James McDonald
<james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> On 28/05/10 19:40, James McDonald wrote:
>>
>> On 27/05/10 00:43, Ken Moffat wrote:
>>>
>>> Fedora question. I'm a Debian user, thinking of having a look at the new
>>> Fedora release. Any warnings, gotchas, whatever, I should be aware of before
>>> installing on my multi-boot desktop?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ken Moffat
>>
>> I downloaded the LIVE cd of F13 and ran the "install to harddisk" icon on
>> the desktop...
>>
>> Tried three or so times and each time I got a grub boot prompt nothing
>> more....
>>
>> I was going to dual boot with U10.04 but I ended up blowing it all away to
>> allow the F13 installer to install using it's defaults but still straight
>> into GRUB no further.
>>
>> Something seriously fishy with the way it behaved.
>>
>> But possibly because my computer is stoneaged and I have a 200 and a 500
>> GB disk which confused it's GRUB install targetting or something or maybe
>> the Ubuntu version of GRUB is / was incompatible with F13.
>>
>> Sadly I didn't get to the bottom of it.
>>
>
> Seems like a long standard anaconda bug I've run into
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596040

Yet another reason to just upgrade with yum:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq


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