Fedora

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On 05/28/2010 04:40 AM, 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.
>

I downloaded the full 32-bit DVD and upgraded my notebook from 12 to 13. 
I upgraded it with all the default settings. The upgrade process took a 
while and finally it booted ok to both Fedora and XP.

I have not seen any problems so far. Wired, wireless, broadband and VPN 
networks all work. That's a good sign for me.

Vu