Installing FC5 on pre-partitioned /dev/hdb

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun Apr 2 23:47:47 UTC 2006


On Sunday 02 April 2006 19:03, Kam Leo wrote:

[...]

>No, Craig, the OP is not confused. The text mode UI took a big hit in
>usability. The developers need to revert back to the UI used in
>previous releases. The results would indicate that very little
>testing of text mode installation was perform outside of the
>developers group.

Little? I think that qualifies for the understatement of the year at 
least, maybe longer.  Does the gui version work differently?  I hadn't 
tried it since FC4 was a fscking disaster that wouldn't even reboot, 
and I installed it around 10 times useing various methods.

>> Suggestion...don't be lazy. Disconnect /dev/hda and plug the drive
>> you want to install into master and complete the install, then
>> switch them back, boot from /dev/hda and then fix grub the way you
>> want
>>
>> Craig
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