Another stellar release from the Fedora project

Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com
Fri Jun 1 21:18:28 UTC 2007


On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Roo wrote:

>
> Working FC6 installation... I use upgrade DVD
>
> 1. Complains that my dos partition can't be mounted. Ignore it.
>
> 2. Complains that it cannot find swap space... offers to reboot. Reboot...
> same problem. I remove any reference to swap in /etc/fstab... and it seems
> to work after rebooting
>
> 3. now Anaconda gives an exception while cataloguing the packages.
> Classy... really professional that one. So  I remove blank lines from
> /etc/modules.conf... reboot... works.
>
> 4. Now it finally gets to installing packages stage... but stops after the
> first 8 or so have been installed. It doesn't lock the machine, anaconda
> just stops. Reboot... and after sitting through 10 minute cataloguing
> packages prep again, it carries on installing packages, for another 8 (or
> so) packages and then stops. There are 800+ packages to install... you do
> the maths.
>
> Did you guys do any quality control at all on this? This is the worst
> release yet. I'm staggered. Not only have you put out what it, at best,
> alpha quality kernels... but the rest of the system was written by a bunch
> of python n00bs.

PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS!!

Regards,

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