Fedora 12 Alpha Rawhide Help

[xxtinglexx]

I am really new to the whole linux thing. I wanted to upgrade to fedora 12. i have the boot option to upgrade, but when i boot from that it tells me it cant load /init and when i try to add the init=option to the kernel it says SWITCHING TO INTERRUPT MODE and it stops doing anything and sits there. any suggestions?

[Demz]

if you new to linux why are you using a Alpha of the next release?

[bob]

(moved to F12 Alpha Beta)

[scottro]

Really, at this point, Alpha isn't ready for newcomers. Even we old timers are having issues with it. :)

An alpha version means very new, not yet well tested and will not work in many cases.

If you just want to try Fedora, you're better off with Fedora 11. They are working hard to make the upgrade path smoother too, so that when F12 is ready, the upgrade may even be easy.

[Demz]

Fedora11 is officially supported in the forums, whereas fedora12 Alpha is Not supported throughout the forum

[xxtinglexx]

Oh ok. i guess the good stuff will have to wait :D thanks for the info. i hope to learn more and more about linux as the time comes. oh and by the way Demz, the reason i tried to upgrade was because they had a cool lookin' ad for it on the fedora home page XD.

[xxtinglexx]

oh and also, is there an official release date on the final fedora 12? just curious...

[cgrim]

You can look here for Fedora 12 release schedule:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/Schedule

[asux]

Really, at this point, Alpha isn't ready for newcomers. Even we old timers are having issues with it. :)

An alpha version means very new, not yet well tested and will not work in many cases.

If you just want to try Fedora, you're better off with Fedora 11. They are working hard to make the upgrade path smoother too, so that when F12 is ready, the upgrade may even be easy.
i had tryed so meny times just to get fedora to stick .frezes and crash .i go linux format lxf 123 it has fed 11 and the only install i could use was basic then i whent to software souse change to rawhid then yum update and all is very good.hope this hellps