Aprox 50 failed http and DVD installs of FC5 with kernel panics (bugzilla'd and willing to debug)

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 07:03, James Wilkinson wrote:
> > 
> > I'm pushing 50-60 installs now, in various modes with various options
> > and I'm still unable to install a stable FC5 system.
> 
> Whoo. You're not having much luck, are you?
> 
> Ubuntu works. FC4 works. Rawhide works. And it sounds like a kernel
> problem.
> 
> In your case, I'd recommend that you try a yum upgrade between FC4 and
> FC5, then try running with a non-FC5 kernel.

Another option would be to install the free VMware server under
an OS version that works and install FC5 as a vmware guest.  Even
that takes some extra steps to work around the changes in
FC5, but it should work.

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  Les Mikesell
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