EEEPC FC11 install

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sun Jun 28 14:38:29 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 19:49 +1000, Andrew Cocker wrote:
> Hi
> I have had FC10 working surprisingly well as a web server for months on an
> Asus EeePC (Intel Atom bases mini PC) but an upgrade to FC11 failed so I
> have had to restart from scratch.  The EeePC has no optical drive and I have
> tried using both a 4GB USB key and USB hard drive.  I tried both
> livecd-tools and Unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive.  In every
> attempt anaconda runs but after I get through the partitioning stage it
> creates a file system and then fails with an error message that it cannot
> mount the ISO source, usually /dev/sdb1.
> 
> Am I doing something dumb, is there a bug?  Should I try reinstalling FC10
> and upgrading to FC11 instead?

I started with F10 and upgraded. Everything worked. Probably not
relevant but I also dual-boot with Windows so I had to fiddle with the
partitioning using gparted from a Live USB stick (the default Asus
Windows layout uses all four basic partitions).

poc




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