[NTLUG:Discuss] Fedora 15 Installation

[Gilbert Morrow]

Try this ; docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/Installation_Guide/
Thieves come though Windows, that its why I use Linux.
On Sep 6, 2011 9:35 PM, "Dennis" <dennis at dearroz.com> wrote:
> I have been attempting to install Fedora 15 on a older Dell system and
> have been running into considerable difficulty.
>
> Apparently Fedora is branching off into new changes that may be required
> to improve things, but it definitely is not a simple installation
> process on a multi-drive system.
>
> I first noticed an issue with Fedora 12 (may have occurred earlier) that
> when moving a hard drive between different PCs, such as student will do
> in the classroom, that the Ethernet interface changes. On the surface
> that is not too big of a deal, except that the changes are not stored in
> the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory. Trouble is that where the
> configuration is stored is no where to be found! I have searched Google
> and there are no answers (at least to my search). Now with 15, they
> have changed the interface qualifier from "eth-xx" to "em-xx", I hope
> that there is some justification for this as it does not make sense to
> make these changes.
>
> My attempt today was to install 15 on a system with three hard drives.
> For some reason doing this has failed. Hopefully it is due to the extra
> drives, but that does not make sense to me. I was able to install
> Fedora 15 to a single drive, but when attempting to add the two
> additional drives I found that I could update the fstab file but the
> mtab file is now a link to the /proc/mount file. (I properly fdisked
> the two drives.) Since /proc/mount is a RAM drive, where does it get
> its information? Doing a google search did not provide an answer so I
> do not know how one can add a new drive to 15. At this time I believe
> that it is impossible to add a new drive to a Fedora 15 system.
>
> Add to this GNOME's new design, it is a piece of *****! If they call
> this improvement, we need to know from what dictionary the pulling the
> definition from.
>
> Sorry for the rambling, but this is very frustrating.
>
> Dennis Rice
>
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