FC2T2 amd64 installation report

Carlos Villegas villegas at math.gatech.edu
Mon Apr 5 21:58:40 UTC 2004


On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 09:26:23AM -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> I have FC2T2 running on my brand new amd64.  There were some problems:
> 
> 1) Did not recognize my GeForce 5900XT.  I got crappy text-based
> installation.  This had a second effect.  Text-based install doesn't allow
> me to setup LVM!  You can make select physical lvm partitions, but you
> cannot select to set them up as a LVM.  This is not true of the graphical
> installer.
> 
> Workaround- put GeForce 5700 in the machine and did the install.  Then swap
> GeForce 5900xt.  Just works.

So did the fresh LVM partitions work for you? They have failed
for me since FC2 test 1 (and also on test 2), the partitions were
created but could not be used upon the first boot, I thought it
was a bug in the 64 bit side.

Carlos





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