The Fedora project specifically recommended NOT simply upgrading from
FC6 to Fedora 7. They recommended a wipe and rebuild.
There has been no obvious difference in the several machines I've done
between graphical and text-based installs. There's been gotcha's on
both, however.
I've seen a couple of kernel problems I had to resolve by quick updates.
And, while the number of updates is daunting, I used to be able to
tell the yum update service to do this for me. Now I've apparently got
to manually update. I'm about to cron this up.
gerry
Chris Gidley wrote:
I've heard multiple simillar problems from people with newer processors
and the solution for them was to use the text install, rather than
graphical. You may want to try that. The graphical install and
upgrading from Fedora 6 were the two major problems for fedora 7 not
working that I could find. Couldn't hurt; hope it works for you, I know
how troubling kernel problems can be.
Chris
Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
Hey Chris,
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Chris Gidley wrote:
Hey Gilbert,
Can you give any more info on how you installed Fedora? For example,
are you running the install off media (CD) or alternate means? What
installation type are you using? I'm assuming since it's a new
machine, you directly installed Fedora 7, as opposed to upgrading
from any previous versions, correct? etc.
Yep, I wiped the hard drive clean, and installed from DVD. Did a
graphical install. Worked on my P4 machines with no problem.
I believe the problem is with how you installed Fedora 7, which is a
common problem, as opposed to hardware related issues.
Thanks,
Chris
I used the same DVD to install F7 on the slower machines, and the same
graphical interface.
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