installation issues

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:50 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:

> > OK - I got this done and get all the way into GUI but am getting an
> > installer error - Unknown Device - The installation source given by
> > device /dev/sdb1 could not be found. Please check your parameters and
> > try again.
> > 
> > vc std out indicates (forgive any typos here)
> > INFO anaconda called with cmdline = ['/usr/bin/anaconda', '--stage2',
> > 'hd:/dev/sdb1://images/install.ing', '--graphica', '--selinux',
> > '--lang', 'en_US.UTF-8', '--keymap', 'us', '--repo', 'hd:/dev/sdb1:/'
> > 
> > and then the error is
> > DEBUG: failed to resolve '/dev/sdb1' 
> > 
> > and of course mount doesn't show it.
> > 
> > I am booting as USB HDD, and it indeed is /dev/sdb1 and I am
> > choosing /dev/hdb1 as the installation source. I can't conceive of
> > another path to make it work. Ideas?
> 
> My pet bug:  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491781
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it's not as if I couldn't install in many other ways,
nfs/http/yum_upgrade but I didn't see any work arounds suggested either.

I don't need to have F11-Beta installed on this Aspire One...I was
thinking that I could see if xorg fixed virtual scrolling as suggested
here...

 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-March/044290.html

where Alex says "Virtual desktop scrolling got dropped when xrandr 1.2
support was added to the driver.  It has since been re-added, but
requires xserver 1.6 and xrandr 1.3."

because it's hard to use 1024x600 without some extra virtual screen but
I don't know that those versions are in F11-Beta anyway and thought if I
went for the Beta, I could provide other feedback (and if necessary, beg
for these updates).

Thanks Paul, I should have looked in Bugzilla...

Craig


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