FC5T2 Installation Notes

[Rahul Sundaram]

Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:

> Got the 5 CD set downloaded and installed on a test system.  Fresh 
> install with preconfigured LV over software raid5 PVs.
>
> Installed fine with only a few really minor nits as enumerated below. 
> Very nice job Fedora Developers and Maintainers.
>
> Notes:
>
> 1. Release notes reference FC4T1, but immediately (on another system) 
> went to web page listed at beginning and saw that was cleaned up.

Right. The ISO and web notes will be available soon.

>
> 2. Saw the missing udev /dev/.ydevdb/db error on first boot, but on 
> subsequent boots, no errors.

Can confirm that. its fixed in a update.

>
> 3. On firstboot the screen for Display had the following statement:
>
>     P225f-w with ATI Technologies Inc RV280
>     [Radeon 9200 SE] (secondary)
>
> Not sure if this was telling that my primary graphics adapter is a 
> Radeon 9200 SE or that it saw it as a true second card, which it is on 
> a PCI slot.  The primary card is a Radeon 9200 on AGP.  In the 
> xorg.conf file, the adapter is referred to as the 9200 SE, but since 
> the monitor is attached to the AGP card and working, this 
> identification is wrong. But X worked pretty much ok (see 6 below).

Might file a  RFE against firstboot.

>
> 4. On firstboot the screen for System User caused me to pause a bit.  
> To me, a system user is one with privileges like root.  I think that 
> substituting 'computer' for 'system' would make more sense.  The 
> screen would be titled Computer User and the prompt would read:
>
>     "It is recommended that you create a computer 'username' for     
> regular (non-administrative) use of your computer.  To create a 
> computer username, please provide the information requested below."
>
Good idea. File a RFE against firstboot.

> 5. I installed both Gnome and KDE and noticed that the menu selections 
> from both were included in the Add to Panel gui.  Maybe that is 
> default behavior, but I hadn't noticed it before.  Nice.

Default behavior, yes.

>
> 6.  Anaconda (or X?) is still installing the vesa driver even tho it 
> appears that a radeon card was detected.  Had to change to radeon in 
> xorg.conf.

File a bug report.

>
> 7. GDM problem (bug 177443) still present AFTER you change the default 
> greeter to gtk from themed.  Had to revert gdm to 2.8.0.4-13.1 to fix. 
> Will update bz.
>
Ok.

>
> I like the very nice bubbly fedora backgrounds and the ease of this 
> installation.  All of the LVs were seen and the software raid5s 
> identified during custom partitioning, yay!
>
> Again, nice job Fedora dudes.
>
Glad you liked it.

-- 
Rahul 

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