Dapper, Edgy And Fedora
Following my problematic and failed upgrade from Dapper to Edgy, I thought I'd use the opportunity to try out Fedora Core 6 in the hope that the Ubuntu installation would get fixed and I could return to it. So, I got my Fedora install CD - no Live CD, just a straight install - booted it up and followed the instructions. I did once use Fedora Core 4, but became frustrated because programs didn't seem to install very easily and I had used Ubuntu before, so I just went back to using Ubuntu.
Anyway, I followed the install process, which I must say is very simple. The advantage of an install CD is that it installs the bare minimum, whereas a Live CD which you install from installs other things - I'll come back to that, though. It was probably the simplest install CD I've seen, bar the Ubuntu text install CD. It has an added benefit over the Ubuntu CD though - you have absolute control over everything you wish to install before it starts, should you so wish. I like that :)
The trouble was with installing, though. As it installed, it came up with a conflict - with file names. Thus, the install failed and I had to reboot. However, I wasn't going to hold this against Fedora - the hard disk I was installing to can be a little dodgy occassionally, so it could have been a problem with this rather than with Fedora. Anyway, I rebooted and started again, this time just selecting all the default options. Success! It installed fine and asked me to reboot. So I did - but there was a problem. When GRUB appeared, there was no mention of Fedora. It appears that Fedora just didn't set up the boot loaded. I booted from the other disk to see if it was installed there, but there was no boot loader there.
Fine, I thought. I'll load up Knoppix or the Ubuntu Live CD, and find out the information I need to set up GRUB myself - except when I did, there was no mention of the partition. It had been set up as a logical volume and I had no idea how to access it. So, I cut my losses, loaded the Edgy Live CD and booted that, wiping the Fedora disk again and installing Edgy. The install went perfectly, although I did need to download about 600Mb of files.
Oh, then there was one more problem - the hard drive started playing up again. So... I went out this evening, leaving my PC to make a tarball of everything except my /home directory. It's 1.8Gb large, down from 6Gb uncompressed, and tomorrow, I can try to extract it to my old Ubuntu partition. We'll see if it works. I've not tried it before and I'm only taking a wild stab at how to do it, so it'll be interesting to see.
There are currently 2 comments on this article.
ameliahttp://www.xanga.com/mia7508
NOEL!!!!! i don't even own a gun, goober! i was pretty surprised to see ME looking back at me on your site... lol... oh well. yeehaw.
2007-01-14 01:12:40
Guy Incognito
http://guyincognito.jedimoose.org
There is no upgrading edgy ;)
2007-01-10 17:26:23