Fedora Core 5 installation poll

[scska]

It did not detect my Cisco Wireless card. I have to work around it now every time I boot up, and it goes through the process of trying to "determine IP information with eth1" every time I boot. *grr*

[karnbo]

38 % installed without problems. 17 % not completed yet.

I cant install FC5 were I now have FC4. The problem seems to be that FC5 installation cant find the 2 SATA disks (were I now have FC4 and want to install FC5). The IDE drive is found.

ASUS K8N4-E Delux,
AMD 64 Sempron 3000+
Samsung Spinpoint SATA 200GB (2 pieces)

Anyone who have any sugestions?

[jaqian]

This was my first time trying in install RedHat/Fedora and I have to say FC5 has the worst linux installer I've ever seen. I've installed SuSE, Mandriva, Knoppix,Ubuntu, Slackware and I've never encountered the stupid problems I've had with FC5, I couldn't even get it up and running.

How do you select different options when going through the install process?

[Doug G]

I swear, some of the complainers here must be running something other that the FC5 installer I ran, which worked very well imho. So far I'm quite happy with FC5. There have been some small glitches but that's to be expected.

fwiw, I upgraded FC4 to FC5 on a Dell server with dual SATA drives without any disk problems, or any major problems.

I upgraded my system last week.
M/board is ASUS P5WD2 Premium (Intel i955X chipset), 2GB PC6400 DDR2 ram, 3.0GHz Pentium 4 (630). 2x SATA2 250GB hdds.
FC4 would not install. This seemed to be because the SATA drives connect to an onboard "wannabe" RAID controller, and anaconda had difficulty trying to probe the drives through it, I'm guessing. I tried a lot of kernel parameters etc, but no joy. The machine kept rebooting shortly after "loading vmlinuz...". The discs are fine, I installed on the other system, and they all passed the mediacheck. Read the BIOS manual (!), made sure to completely disable all RAID features on the m/board so anaconda can see the SATA drives as IDE without the RAID confusion, but nothing. FC3 installer booted fine, but couldn't find drives to install on. In comparison, SuSE Pro 9.3 installed without a hitch and was fine (grub.conf actually had cc=IDE in the boot line), all drives and partitions and hardware good. Knoppix booted, nice and fast, could see drives but couldn't mount them as root. So this is really strange. Windows went on really quick without problems (sorry, only for testing :] ). Hardware config showed no errors in Windows.. So you get the picture - the usual nightmare..

Then I noticed that FC5 was available for download. I made up the cd's.

It found absolutely everything in one go. No unknown hardware, correct mouse, graphics, sound, drives, all 4 USB controllers, both IEE1394 ports and I've been enjoying some fine computing since last Thursday

I love it.
Fedora Core 5 is the best one yet for me anyway.

[icantux]

Everything but sound worked on my thinkpad (t42) laptop. Finally figured out that the "permissions" problem (only root had access to sound device) was a series of bad links.

Installed whatever version of alsa-drivers to fix the problem and then uninstalled the drivers (don't really need them) and had the sound working from there on...

No other problems. Did my research beforehand to know what to expect and how to fix (madwifi drivers, ATI fglrx ...).

Advice for future FC installation procedure: FC developers - please add a full list of packages to be installed and allow user to select individual packages. Sure group the packages according to category as it is now, but adding a "full packages list" feature would be great!

[rhb100]

I installed Fedora Core 5 on a clean hard drive. The installation went smooth except that the boot loader, GRUB, did not work. After receiving help in this forum, I edited /boot/grub/grub.conf and used grub --recheck /dev/hda to get it working properly. I then had trouble finding fortran. I finally learned that it is now called gfortran.