FC6 seems to be a mess

[Jim Cornette]

Alastair Neil wrote:
> 
> Well for the first time I can remember a Fedora release did not install  
> properly on my plain old vanilla Dell Optiplex 270.  I used a usb thumb 
> drive to start the install. 

Nooo .... I have a Dell Optiplex GX270 to upgrade. I had trouble going 
from FC4 to FC5 via the installer so had to resort to other methods to 
upgrade the system to FC5. I am not sure if a 270 and GX270 make any 
difference with the outcome.

> 
> Installing the ata_piix driver module takes over a minute because of all 
> the sata time out nonsense.
> 
> After completing the install and rebooting grub was screwed up.  the 
> device.map was referencing (hd0) to /dev/sda instead of /dev/hda and on 
> top of that the entries in the grub.conf were pointed to the wrong disks 
> too (hd1,0), double whammy. 
> 

Thanks for the note: I'll check these items out before rebooting the 
system, if the installer works this time for upgrading.
Grub seems to be more troublesome lately than I remember previously. The 
double wrong steps are a bit alarming. I have two sata 80GB drives on 
the system which are /dev/sda now. I better check before rebooting that 
they did not change to /dev/hdx devices.

> DHCP seemed to take an age to pick up an ip address. 
> 
> The much vaunted improvements in yum dependency checks were not in 
> evidence during the install when the initial dependency check took an 
> age even though I had not customised anything.
> 
> I surprised to see that there was no X configuration during first boot, 
> and also surprised that it needed to reboot after first boot.
> 
> Unpleasantly it then rebooted to a command line prompt - no X.
> 
> I will try and file bugzilla reports on these tomorrow, however I'm 
> pretty shocked.  If I were a casual user and not a long time Fedora lag 
> I'd run not walk from this distro.
> 

Noted on the things to look out for.
Jim

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