FC5 Installation turned out to be a disaster

[John Summerfield]

David Cary Hart wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:32:47 -0800
> Richard E Miles <r.godzilla at comcast.net> opined:
> 
>>I installed the FC5 release on Tuesday but I experienced a problem
>>I have never had with any redhat or fedora releases. The anaconda
>>could not detect my vidio graphics card. This is a nvidia geforce
>>FX 5200 card. This card has been detected on previous installs
>>(FC4). Because of this I did not get a graphical install. The
>>install took 2 and a half hours (fresh install). As such no
>>xorg.conf file was produced. System-config-display aborted. Because
>>of this I had no X window capability. This is totally unexceptable.
> 
> 
> Well gee, I'll send a note to accounting to process your refund
> IMMEDIATELY!
> 
> Seriously, you have obviously been enjoying Fedora. Have you filed
> bug reports? Was this a clean install or an upgrade?
> 

Don't expect every Linux user to have your technical skills. Intelligent 
people I know, teachers on a mission, would have great difficulty 
sorting out these problems.