Another stellar release from the Fedora project

[Phil Meyer]

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
>   
HUGE red flag here.  Your fstab is invalid and you wish to continue??  
This is madness.  You will surely need to do a wipe and install.
> 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.
>   
Memory Memory Memory -- Did you read the release notes?  Do you have 
512MB to do a graphic install?  No?  Well then ...
> 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.
>   
Memory Memory Memory -- Did you read the release notes?  Do you have 
512MB to do a graphic install?  No?  Well then ...

Both of those symptoms are well known and well documented.

Please do not attempt a graphical upgrade on a system that is currently 
broken (demonstrated by a bas fstab).

Please do not attempt a graphical install on a system with less than 
512MB RAM.

Please at least glance at the release notes before installing.

For real issues, please do not install F7 on a system with an AMD/ATI 
X1000 (R500) or X2000 (R600) GPU that have a resolution greater than 
1600x1200.  The vesa driver will be used on all of those cards.

The vesa driver does not support many laptop resolutions -- beware!

The binary blob drivers from AMD/ATI do not currently work with F7.  It 
is unknown when they will.  They are only partially working on other 
distros running 2.6.21  kernels.

See: http://www.phoronix.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3085