[Gloucs] Fedora...

[Alan Vamplew]

Simon,

It was much easier to install Fedora 7 using the free distro on the cover of
the August edition of Linux Magazine.
Wireless networking was the only problem but this has now been resolved.
So far it looks and feels good.

Alan


-----Original Message-----
From: gloucs-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:gloucs-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Lewis
Sent: 09 September 2007 14:04
To: Gloucestershire LUG
Subject: [Gloucs] Fedora...

So.... in the spirit of keeping my friends close and my enemies  
closer I thought I would help my house mate install Fedora on his  
laptop along side Debian as a test.

We downloaded and burned the net install cd and fired it up, then the  
usual thing of pointing it at a http address... 20 minutes later of  
searching and messing around we finally are able to find a url that  
the installer CD likes...   it downloads a graphical installer...

The installer starts and up comes a gnome based installer that is  
*very* pretty. Being a Mac user and judging everything on appearance  
I was mildly impressed.....then... after 20 minutes of waiting for it  
to "resolve depandencies" it asks me what I would like to  
install..... then more waiting and then after 10 minutes the progress  
bar starts to move.... yay!

And im still waiting...  its on 335 of 1025 packages....

I have learnt 2 things so far during this install:
1) The Fedora installer is very pretty but does not have the feature  
of the Debian installer
2) The tool used to calculate the dependancies appears to be very slow

Anyway... lets see if Fedora 7 can offer anything....


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