Why are some having so much trouble with F7?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jun 25 16:13:31 UTC 2007


John Austin wrote:
> 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

If you look at the bug report, I have already reopened it. It was closed 
by the original bug reporter and not by the Fedora team as incorrectly 
claimed here and other folks piled comments on top of the closed bug 
report instead of opening up a new one and thus the feedback got lost.

Rahul




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