On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 14:29 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:40 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Due to an installer regression in Fedora 9 that has yet to be fixed for > > > F10 (installer pukes on Samsung hard drives that have a '/' in their > > > model name), I had to install F8 on a box last week, and opted to go > > > straight to rawhide from there. It worked fine after sorting out some > > > things manually to get the sysvinit to upstart bits right, but was > > > certainly not entirely straight-forward, and this was a minimal install > > > to begin with. So yeah, FC6 straight to F9... Not recommended, unless > > > you *really* know what you're doing. Incremental upgrades from 6 to 7 to > > > 8 to 9 might be less pain and suffering. > > > > Hmm.. I wonder if this is the same issue I had with F9 on a > > system with four seagate barracuda drives where it wouldn't > > read the disks so crashed in the early installer with a python > > backtrace? > > Yep, nice long backtrace when probing the disks -- extra-fun with > rawhide, because if you try to save the backtrace to bugzilla or even to > a usb stick or another machine via ssh, *that* backtraces too... :)
I should add that the backtrace save pukes because of the slash, not because that functionality is completely broken -- it works great in most other cases. -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
