Fedora

[Leon Goldstein]

James McDonald 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
>
I have tried previous Fedora versions and all failed to create a 
partition on a drive already accommodating other Linuces.
After creating a partition with a different Linux installer, Fedora 
would then install.  I don't know about the GRUB bug because I always 
chainload Fedora from another Linux's GRUB.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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