Fedora 7 : Fresh Install, defaulted to Runlevel 3

[jimacornette at netscape.net]

On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 14:44 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
>> Not to mention the installation in text mode installs packages
>> completely different than the packages that were selected. Just a
>> caution. I ran a text installation yesterday which broke that way.

> I get something similar with graphical installs.  You remove some 
things
> you don't want, they get put back in.  They're not all dependencies, 
as
> you can individually remove the post-installation.

The problems for me seemed to be that the optional packages did not que 
up properly.
The displayed package was not the actual package which was installed.
Also, packages like mc and k3b were listed as optional packages but 
were not on the install cd.
The installer gave me the option to pick a host of games but not even 
the kde or gnome games were installed.
There seem to not be care to the text installer. I expected the same 
for text as with the GUI, minus the GUI eye candy.
Eventually I got the system tailored to my desired install choices via 
yum, but not as smooth as a correct acting installer would have 
resulted in.
Anyway, we have another Linux user, not by choice but because of 
experimental adaptation because she destroyed her XP installation and
the "support department" (free of charge of course) installed Fedora to 
get her back on the net.
The reason that I even used the text installer was because the GUI 
installer could not open rpms at certain points in the installation. I 
then decided to try the text installer which completed but with chance 
packages vs. desired.

Anyway, the tools for Linux post-install launched SMART which revealed 
3 bad sectors on the drive. I take it the bad sectors was on xp since 
there was a mini-dump when the computer needed attention. Also, she had 
93% usage on the disk which was ntfs and Linux flagged this. I really 
like all the information Linux provides to the user.

Thanks to having ntfs-3g, transferring all docs from the xp install to 
the Linux install was not a hard task to accomplish. The transfer of 
bookmarks was a bit tricky from seamonkey xp bound onto seamonkey Linux.

Anyway don't expect the text installer to provide exactly what the GUI 
installer provides. It is usable if you get weird errors when using the 
GUI installer.

Sorry for the rambling and netscape.net formated mail.

Jim

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[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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