Nikolaus Rath writes:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a long term Debian and Ubuntu user and just tried to install Fedora
> 14. I want to share a couple of impressions:
>
> I don't have a CD writer at hand, so I downloaded the netinstall image.
> Following the instructions in the installation guide, I copied vml
>From one that has used SuSE, OpenSuSE, Mandrake, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Debian,
>Redhat before fedora, Fedora, RedHat, CentOS, Scientific
Linux, Knoppix, DSL, Unbreakable Linux, EEEbuntu, and a dozen other distros
over that last 12 years I:
For Home use CentOS for a server and Fedora for my desktop a
i do believe you have had an unfortunate and rare occurrence while installing
the most advanced linux OS
i have been installing fedora since fedora 8 came out and up until the latest
ubuntu came out (10.10) Fedora has been much easier for me personally to
install. Usually taking a max of 3 hr
On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 10:40 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
> I found this in my Junk folder on Thunderbird. Checking, it was sent
> to "Undisclosed Recipients." Please don't do that, as I doubt I'm the
> only one on this list who considers that a sign of spam.
Possibly due to them posting through the gm
On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 09:39 -0800, suvayu ali wrote:
> Fedora uses a patched version of GRUB Legacy. It can read / partitions
> on LVM but the /boot partition still needs to be ext* on disk.
Hmm, isn't it more the case that the *kernel* reads the LVM partitions?
GRUB starts loading the kernel, wh
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Kevin J. Cummings
wrote:
> On 02/05/2011 01:16 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>>
>> How come that Fedora sticks with GRUB Legacy? One of my reasons for
>> wanting to try Fedora was to get quicker access to new features, so I'm
>> really surprised to find that the first th
On 5 February 2011 20:53, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> suvayu ali writes:
>>> Ugh. So I have hundreds of free GBs in my LVM VGs, but I won't be able
>>> to install Fedora? Is there no way around this?
>>
>> Well you have two options I think,
>>
>> 1. the obvious first, resize your LVMs to free 500 MB a
On 02/05/2011 12:53 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> JFTR, unfortunately PVs cannot be made smaller. The whole idea of LVM is
> to do all the resize operations*within* the containers.
This, however, is a special case because /boot needs to be a regular
partition, not part of an LVM. Personally, for h
suvayu ali writes:
>> Ugh. So I have hundreds of free GBs in my LVM VGs, but I won't be able
>> to install Fedora? Is there no way around this?
>
> Well you have two options I think,
>
> 1. the obvious first, resize your LVMs to free 500 MB and use it as
>/boot
JFTR, unfortunately PVs cannot
Gilboa Davara writes:
> On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 17:54 -0500, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm a long term Debian and Ubuntu user and just tried to install Fedora
>> 14. I want to share a couple of impressions:
>
> I wonder, what exactly were you trying to achieve?
> Beyond a possible (?) bu
On 02/05/2011 01:16 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> How come that Fedora sticks with GRUB Legacy? One of my reasons for
> wanting to try Fedora was to get quicker access to new features, so I'm
> really surprised to find that the first thing that I get in contact with
> is an outdated GRUB...
Grub-2.0
On 02/04/2011 02:54 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> I'm a long term Debian and Ubuntu user and just tried to install Fedora
> 14. I want to share a couple of impressions:
I found this in my Junk folder on Thunderbird. Checking, it was sent to
"Undisclosed Recipients." Please don't do that, as I doub
On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 20:29 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 17:54 -0500, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm a long term Debian and Ubuntu user and just tried to install Fedora
> > 14. I want to share a couple of impressions:
>
> I wonder, what exactly were you trying
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 17:54 -0500, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a long term Debian and Ubuntu user and just tried to install Fedora
> 14. I want to share a couple of impressions:
I wonder, what exactly were you trying to achieve?
Beyond a possible (?) bug report when dealing with your sw
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>> Fedora uses a patched version of GRUB Legacy. It can read / partitions
>> on LVM but the /boot partition still needs to be ext* on disk.
>
> How come that Fedora sticks with GRUB Legacy? One of my reasons for
> wanting to try Fedora was to g
suvayu ali writes:
> I don't know about your other issues, but I'll try to answer the ones below.
>
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>> Alright, so I'll do without swap for now. Next thing the installer
>> complains that I cannot put my root partition into LVM2. This works j
I don't know about your other issues, but I'll try to answer the ones below.
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> Alright, so I'll do without swap for now. Next thing the installer
> complains that I cannot put my root partition into LVM2. This works just
> fine with Grub2, and
On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 10:19:03 -0600 Thomas Paine
wrote:
> Honestly fedora is going to give you more trouble. I would install centos if
> you want an rpm based install. It will save you headache when you get to the
> pulse audio issues if you stay away from fedora.
I don;t know about that. I hav
Honestly fedora is going to give you more trouble. I would install centos if
you want an rpm based install. It will save you headache when you get to the
pulse audio issues if you stay away from fedora.
You can also use Ubuntu 10.10 which I am currently using.
If you want to get fedora to install
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