Why are some having so much trouble with F7?

[John Austin]

On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 04:03 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> R. Irving wrote:
> >>
> >> The kernels may be buggy in ways I haven't run across yet, but as for 
> >> booting up, absolutely no problem...
> >>
> >> I'm just trying to understand why some are having nothing but problems 
> >> and others just breeze right through.
> > 
> >   Among other things, the DVD won't install to systems with SATA Drives, 
> > it just hangs at "Ready"
> > 
> >  This will crash and burn a LARGE percentage of the Fedora Base users, 
> > with many having newer SATA
> > based systems they bought to run the new dual core processors.
> > 
> > And, in their ingenuity, The FC-7 team has found this bug, and decided 
> > they aren't going to fix it, as it has been
> > labeled "Wont Fix" in the database...google around to see what I mean.
> > 
> > Pure Genius.  :-\
> 
> You might have taken a moment to look at the bug history before you 
> started blaming people.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239585
> 
> The bug report has been closed by the person who reported the bug and 
> not by the Fedora team.
> 
> Rahul
> 

Hi

The bug is definitely there in the Final F7 released DVD.

The solution from LarryT, GParted-livecd maintainer is also on this
list.

See the "Can't install FC7 from DVD" thread

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-June/msg04510.html

John