Fedora 17 installation problems

[DovGrobgeld]

Here are some issues that I encountered when trying to do a fresh install of Fedora 17 Alpha. I installed into a new partition but wanted to preserve my home partition.

1. Installation failed in the end when trying to write grub2 configuration to the disk. Perhaps it was because I was trying to create a boot partition at the very end of my 2TB disk? But shouldn't there be a warning about this at the time of creation of the disk partitions?

After manually moving the boot files to a partition in the "beginning" of my disk and writing a grub configuration (I don't understand how to use grub2 with templates, etc). I was able to boot.

2. I was trying to use my old /home partition. My old UID=500. Is that the reason my name did not appear in the GDM login screen?

3. When tryng to log in from the console to my user account I got the error message "permission denied for /home/dov". But I subsequently do "su; su - dov" I am placed in my home directory and have rw access to my files. Is this a SELinux issue?

4. I don't have network access. Doing ifconfig shows my network is up but there is no IPV4 configuration for it, only IPV6. What is the cause for this?

5. When logging in to GDM I get very slow response with continous freezeups. Perhaps an old configuration is screwing things up? I will try tonight with a new fresh user account to check the response.

My must urgent issue is the network. What can I do to debug it?

[Finalzone]

1. Be in mind Fedora 17 Beta is coming.
2. Since Fedora 15, UID started from 1000 so you should relabel it.
3. Issue related to above. Normally when the installation is complete, first boot should appear to the setting that ask to create username. If you enter that username i.e. dov, you should be asked if you would like to use /home/dov. If so, that path will set right permission including selinux labeling.

I don't know about network issue. Hopefully someone will know.

[tox]

i'd have to say wait for F17 Beta an reinstall that as a clean install as the Alpha would have had numerous problems. i dont know about your Network issue. seems a bit odd though if its seeing IPv6 and not IPv4. are you actually using IPv4?

[DovGrobgeld]

Thanks Finalzone and tox for the help. Based on the tox' reply I decided to downgrade to Fedora 16. That wasn't simple either as Fedora-16-i386-DVD.iso doesn't boot. After several failed attempts with both DVD disks and USB-keys, II downloaded Fedora-16-i686-Live-Desktop.iso instead. I tried creating a bootable usb key through liveusb-creator on my Fedora 12 usb netbook. It wouldn't boot. But using dd worked and I was able to boot into the live usb. But it failed running the desktop and I repeatedly got an error message. Instead I logged in as root at one of the consoles, did "telinit 3; startx" which surprisingly worked. I found the application "Install on harddisk" which also worked! So finally I have a working desktop again! Installing Fedora from scratch still isn't for newbies...