Fedora 17 Installation Mishap

[Rath1on]

With the final coming out soon, I decided to just go ahead and install the RC4. Doing the same thing I did for F15 and F16 (full install/format), I put the dvd.iso on a live usb. This worked without any issues before. With F17, it was a bit more frustrating. I ended up stopping the installation after 5 hours. The retrieving installation after bit took about an hour, the checking dependencies bit took about an hour, the starting installation process took about 2 hours, and I finally killed it after an hour into the actual installation which was only on 20/1200. The weird part is that I restarted the installation after a hard shut down, chose the same setup options as before (complete format), and the install went fine this time. Took about half an hour.
What happened?

[ryptyde]

You were impatient and it finished the install from where you first terminated perhaps.

phil

[AdamW]

No, it wouldn't do that. I have no explanation for what happened except hardware weirdness. I saw no such behaviour in any of my F17 tests, and I do quite a lot of USB validation testing (i.e. sit there and install from USB sticks...over and over again...with a whisky bottle handy).

[Rath1on]

Originally Posted by ryptyde

You were impatient and it finished the install from where you first terminated perhaps.

phil

I don't think so. I stopped it at 20/1210. It flew through the installation the second time like it normally does.
I did a lot of searching and I couldn't really find any other people who with similar experiences. So, I guess it was just "hardware weirdness."

That's good. I suppose.