Does anyone know what the difference is between how version 11 initializes
hardware and how version 12 does it? Several years ago I played around with
Redhat linux for awhile. I've been trying to installing Fedora onto a
second harddrive on a system with XP on the first drive. Here is my
dilemma.
I downloaded version 11 and burnt them to CD. When I try to install it gets
to where it initializes hardware and hangs up/freezes. I searched thru the
forum and the only thing I found was that it points to hardware
compatibility. I checked and all my hardware seems compatible. I saw on
the forum where version 12 was released and decided to try that. The
install goes well and I get past the disk partitioning to installing the
bootloader. When I try to go to the nest step I get "Unable to read group
information from repositories. This is a problem with the generation of
your installation." When I checked the forum for this message it talked
about a problem with the CDs burning. I checked according to the
instructions and the CDs checked out ok.
If I can figure out why version 11 hangs on initializing hardware I can
install that version. If I can figure out what version 12 halts after the
bootloader I can install that version. I am really interested in getting
Fedora installed.
Re: Initializing hardware
If I can figure out why version 11 hangs on initializing hardware I can
install that version. If I can figure out what version 12 halts after
the bootloader I can install that version. I am really interested in
getting Fedora installed.
I had identical problem and found that the installation app on the cd
was seeking the floppy drive via the motherboard bios. It stalled for
about 15 minutes then reported that it could not locate a fd0 drive.
The drive was faulty or disconnected.
I went into bios - (F12) on my system - on boot up before the bios seeks
the cdrom and set it on 'No Floppy Drive' and set the seek which looks
for drives to ignore the floppy drive.
The installation went ahead no problems.
Roger
Re: Initializing hardware
Fedora 12 has not been released yet (though it will be very soon). What
you're trying is one of the prerelease versions. These are discussed on
fedora-test-list.
If you're uncertain, wait a few days for the official release, then try
the LiveCD version to make sure your hardware is supported. If all goes
well then either install from the LiveCD or the full DVD.
poc
Re: Initializing hardware (new problem)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" <<...> at gmail dot com>
To:
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: Initializing hardware
I knew it was a prerelease but simply assumed everyone on this list would
know that.
I forgot that I could install from the LiveCD so I stuck that CD in.
Everything seemed to be going well until I got to the point of partitioning.
The LiveCD wouldn't let me format the /boot and / partitions as ext3...it
forced a ext4 format. I went back and tried the regular CDs using the ext4
filesystem. I still got the same error msg and went back to the LiveCD.
The installation went perfectly. After all was set and done I booted into
Fedora. When I got to the Login I tried to login as root and got an
"Authentication Failure" message. In other words, it wouldn't let me log in
as root (yes I used the correct password). It would only allow me to log in
as a user. I know I can use 'su' to switch. I can't think of a specific
situation at the moment as to why but I would like the ability to log in as
root.
Robt C Parrish Sr
Linux Newbie
Re: Initializing hardware (new problem)
This is a policy decision by the Gnome people and is the same in F11.
There has been much discussion of it on this list so you can Google for
workarounds if you like. Personally I think it's a Good Thing (tm) even
though as a KDE user it doesn't affect me, but let's not start another
thread about it :-)
(BTW the reason you can't think of why you would need to log in to the
GUI desktop as root is that there is no scenario in which that is the
only option to solve a problem).
poc
Re: Initializing hardware (new problem)
This is disabled in the graphical login. If you press ALT-F2 (I hope I
remember it correctly) Anyway when using ALF-F? you can change between
graphical login and textmode. In the textmode console you can login as
root if you need to do some system maintenance. All the graphical system
maintenance tools should be run from your normal user account and
supplied with root password when asked.
-vpk
Re: Initializing hardware
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 22:08:07 -0430,
Since its gone gold, he could probably try RC4 now and get the same thing.
Even though that will be the release if the bug is still present there
is the possibility of having a 0 day update if a bug gets filed.
Re: Initializing hardware
I'm not really sure what RC4 is.
Robt C Parrish Sr
Linux Newbie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruno Wolff III" <<...> at wolff dot to>
To: "Patrick O'Callaghan" <<...> at gmail dot com>
Cc:
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: Initializing hardware
Re: Initializing hardware
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 00:52:44 -0500,
It was the 4th release candidate.