Fedora 9 a Bit Behind the Curve On Installation 110
bsk_cw writes "Today, many Linux users are getting blasé about the ease with which they can install Linux. Possibly, they've been spoiled by distributions such as Ubuntu, which is actually easier to install than Windows. Unfortunately, Fedora 9, the latest version of this community edition of Red Hat, was a bit too much of a blast from the past for Computerworld's James Turner." (Except for bits about the installation, the review is actually quite positive.)
Re:Of course it's easier to instal than Windows! (Score:5, Informative)
Has Fedora fixed the packager manager performance? (Score:2, Informative)
Not too good if you ask me. But hell who needs Fedora anyway when there are much better distros without that RPM crap.
Re:Of course it's easier to instal than Windows! (Score:5, Informative)
It also teaches you the commands, and tells you what it's doing. Very cool little ISO file.
Re:Of course it's easier to instal than Windows! (Score:5, Informative)
While the plural of anecdote is not data, I think I know what the GP is talking about and have experienced it myself.
There are some known AHCI problems [microsoft.com] with a common ATI southbridge chipset which made installing Vista impossible unless you first disable AHCI (I assume this is what the GP meant by having to dumb-down BIOS settings).
So, lets try XP I thought. Too bad it has no drivers for the sata controller at all, and I have no floppy drive. I ended up having to inject the controller drivers into the XP CD and re-burn it. The XP installer then saw my disk in IDE mode, but not AHCI mode..
I gave up and left the controller in IDE mode.
For reference, Ubuntu 7.10 had no trouble on the same machine.
Re:Of course it's easier to instal than Windows! (Score:3, Informative)
I think SP2 slipstreamed into the install disk recognizes SATA and SAS. Or you could slipstream the drivers themselves, which I don't recommend to anybody who isn't comfortable mucking with inf files.
Re:Make Fedora available on CDROM iso's (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Make Fedora available on CDROM iso's (Score:2, Informative)
you can boot straight up into it, and theres a double-click 'install to hard drive' desktop icon.
single cd image, and once installed, you can pick and choose additional packages from the public repositories.
Re:I guess he never installed Slackware 3.... (Score:2, Informative)
but it's still easier to install than windows!
2 days ago, I installed slackware 12.1, and moved the raid from the older server... took me less than 1 hour to complete all tasks, and had a running server...
All hail to the slackware god!
Re:Of course it's easier to instal than Windows! (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Of course it's easier to instal than Windows! (Score:3, Informative)