[Dclug] F14 install experience notes

[Al Haraka]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Brian Madonna <bmadonna at starpower.net> wrote:
> Nice download speed I"m getting from George town.  You just made it public
> man LOL.

If they did not like it public they should not have a public-facing
link on the intertubez or firewall the thing to university subnets,
but I digress.  I guess I can undo all their bad advertising, or lack
thereof.  Also, ../updates might contain useful RPM'S for different
users.

> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:14 AM, jerry w <jerrywone at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Download took a few hours
>> Fedora.RedHat.com timing out...
>> eventually found it on fedoraproject.org
>> started a little early thinking/hoping that it might be available early...
>>
>> difficulty finding space to download the live cd & install dvd
>>
>> could not verify download with gpg instructions on fedoraproject page
>> (under ubuntu)
>> cdrecord to burn CDR and DVD
>>
>>
>> tried the live CD first to make sure that it ran before bothering to
>> install
>> installed some software while running live cd to see some of it's
>> capabilities
>> very slow from CDR
>> worried about wearing out the drive
>>
>> upgrade install failed on disk space
>>
>> repartitioning not helping some small chunks of free space
>> use free doesn't work
>> errored on about all the partitioning
>> eventually used a partition saved for something else
>>
>> clean install
>>
>> sharing swap space (low disk space with FC13 which seems to randomly
>> suspend because of power cord and battery issues)
>>
>>  grub install on partition instead of /sda
>>
>> can't run the new install after hours of download, burn and install
>>
>> worst of two worlds, either losing access to the older partitions
>> why not just do a diff and give me both?
>>
>> rescue disk
>> tried to get it back
>>
>> took some photos of screens
>> in case others are interested in helping
>>
>> --
>> Jerry W
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