Installing Fedora Core

Mark South wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:06:09 -0800, zntneo wrote:
>
>> I have tried to install Fedora Core 4 on my machine multiple times
>> since i put in a new hard drive. It hangs right after it is suppose
>> to start formatting the drive and installing it. I don't think its
>> the drive because i am using suse on it right now.
>
> There'd be so much less misery in the world if people just walked on
> by when Red Hat asked them to sign up as unpaid, unsupported,
> beta-testers.
>
> Suse work, FC4 doesn't. So you want to clear out Suse and install
> FC4.
>
> Do you see something vaguely illogical about that?

Well, yes. I've had a lot of pain with SuSE system tools, and their tendency
to widdle on the author's source code and configuration tools for no reason.
(Take a look at the kernel SRPM's from SuSE, or how they manage the NVidia
installers: it's.... painful.)

Fedora Core is bleeding edge, or tends to be. Since zntneo has not told us
what the actual hardware is, such as the presence of SATA hard drives, I
can't help but think that maybe something else is going on.

Friend, what exactly *is* your hardware? Does it perhaps install with the
FC5 test release, version 4.92?

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:06:09 -0800, zntneo wrote:

> I have tried to install Fedora Core 4 on my machine multiple times
> since i put in a new hard drive. It hangs right after it is suppose to
> start formatting the drive and installing it. I don't think its the
> drive because i am using suse on it right now. I have tried using the
> text install and using the no acpi option neither worked.
>
> My computer is a 2.4 ghz celeron processor with 768 mb of ram. I have a
> 120 gb hard drive with windows on it and 40 gb hard drive which is
> were i am tryign to install fedora on can anyone help?

If you downloaded FC4 and burned the CDs yourself, you could have a bad
download or a bad burn. Did you run checksums on the downloaded files
before burning them, and did you run checksums, again, after the burning
to be assured that you got a good CD? I've never had good luck with FC4's
built-in CD check. 9 times out of 10, it says the disks are bad, while
the checksumming says they are good.

Also, is the install really hanging? By default FC4 runs a bad blocks
check on all the install partitions before formatting and before
installing file. Badblocks takes a while. Depends on the size of the
partition and the speed of the drive. IIRC, it took about 45 minutes or
so to bad block check a 15GB partition, when last I installed FC4.

Stef

Mark South wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:06:09 -0800, zntneo wrote:
>
>> I have tried to install Fedora Core 4 on my machine multiple times
>> since i put in a new hard drive. It hangs right after it is suppose to
>> start formatting the drive and installing it. I don't think its the
>> drive because i am using suse on it right now.
>
> There'd be so much less misery in the world if people just walked on by
> when Red Hat asked them to sign up as unpaid, unsupported, beta-testers.
>
> Suse work, FC4 doesn't. So you want to clear out Suse and install FC4.
>
> Do you see something vaguely illogical about that?

I installed FC4 on an HP pavillion as a dual boot with Windows XP Pro. The
distribution came as 4 CD's and a 96 page installation and setup manual.

At first I couldn't get connected through the internal modem I had so I gave
up and uninstalled Linux.

Someone suggested getting an external modem. I installed the modem and
re-installed FC4 according to the instructions. Everything went without
any problems and I have used it ever since.

Alan

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:59:02 +1100, Alan wrote:

> Mark South wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:06:09 -0800, zntneo wrote:
>>
>>> I have tried to install Fedora Core 4 on my machine multiple times
>>> since i put in a new hard drive. It hangs right after it is suppose to
>>> start formatting the drive and installing it. I don't think its the
>>> drive because i am using suse on it right now.
>>
>> There'd be so much less misery in the world if people just walked on by
>> when Red Hat asked them to sign up as unpaid, unsupported, beta-testers.
>>
>> Suse work, FC4 doesn't. So you want to clear out Suse and install FC4.
>>
>> Do you see something vaguely illogical about that?
>
> I installed FC4 on an HP pavillion as a dual boot with Windows XP Pro. The
> distribution came as 4 CD's and a 96 page installation and setup manual.
>
> At first I couldn't get connected through the internal modem I had so I gave
> up and uninstalled Linux.
>
> Someone suggested getting an external modem. I installed the modem and
> re-installed FC4 according to the instructions. Everything went without
> any problems and I have used it ever since.

Then you're obviously one in a thousand. The linux newsgroups are
permanently clogged with people having difficulties wth Fedora Gore.

I ditched Fedora after a couple weeks with FC1. Every other distro I've
tested since has been better.
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Mark South wrote:

> Then you're obviously one in a thousand. The linux newsgroups are
> permanently clogged with people having difficulties wth Fedora Gore.

Oh, it's not that bad. I've done only a few hundred systems with Fedora Core
releases: as new hardware shows up, you need to stay up to date with your
kernels to match the new hardware. SuSE, however, has been raw pain with
every release I've had to deal with.

Winmodems are a problem for everyone, including Windows.