My (unpleasant) fedora 10 installation experience

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 15:03 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 22:40 +0300, Lev Shamardin wrote:
> 
> > User creation: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474007
> 
> Not sure I understand this one.  You may be restoring your /home dir,
> but you still need that user created anyway, so if at least
> group/passwd/gdm/etc.. are all set?  The home dir will just get written
> over during restore, so that makes no difference?

AIUI, he had a damaged /home and intended to fix it with fsck after
installation, but was forced to create a user (hence write to /home)
before he could get to the repair step.

I'm mostly just a user, but I don't think I'd expect that to work.  I'd
boot the CD to rescue mode and make sure all my carry-over file systems
were sound before commencing an installation.

Developers and other users, is his expectation a reasonable one?

> 
> > NTP firstboot crash: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474009
> 
> This one I get.  I am not sure why maybe NM isn't brought up during
> this, and first might I add, then anything network related would  be
> brought up?
> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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