On Tuesday 20 September 2005 05:44 pm, Ryan Amos wrote: > Just FYI, if you're looking for a stable redhat-like OS, try CentOS > (http://www.centos.org/ ). Things tend to break randomly in Fedora > installs, because Fedora is basically an 'unstable' or 'testing' > ground for a lot of the stuff RH puts into RHEL. CentOS is a clone of > RHEL (RHEL - RedHat branding - proprietary software = CentOS) > compiled from the GPL SRPMs...
I've used CentOS. They just installed it in some of the machines in the Physics Dept. The problem is that most of their stuff is legacy, and I need some cutting-edge stuff (like the latest kipi plugins for my digikam, latest KDE etc.), and it seems a bit drastic to install a whole new distro to take care of a python problem. > > I have had excellent results using it in a production environment, > even with exotic versions of gcc, perl, php, apache, etc. Fedora was > just too unstable; it seemed every time I ran up2date I broke > something. I moved my production machines (well, most of them.. > waiting on new hardware before I bother with the last 4 or 5) from > FC3 to CentOS 4.1 and never looked back. > > One caveat to the CentOS installer (which it looks like you ran into > with FC4 as well): Make sure Legacy USB support is turned off in your > bios. It makes anaconda do weird things. > > -Ryan > > On Sep 20, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Analabha Roy wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 September 2005 02:54 pm, Andrew Gaul wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 02:32:52PM -0500, Analabha Roy wrote: > >>> Dude, it's worse in fc4. There is a bug in the bootdisk that panics > >>> the installer kernel in my motherboard (so to speak). Thus, I can't > >>> even install it. There is a bugzilla for this problem but so far > >>> nobody at fedora has cared. > >> > >> Have you tried the "garbage" fix: > >> > >> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-June/ > >> msg03392.html > > > > I tried it. It loaded the installer all right. I selected > > 'upgrade' and it > > crashed again. I've prepared screenshots of the various tty's when > > the crash > > happened. They are at: > > > > http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~daneel/photoalbum/KIPIHTMLExport/mem1/ > > index.html > > > > This exact same crash happened again. I'm too scared to do a fresh > > reformat/reinstall as, if this crash happens then, I might lose > > everything. > > > >> You might also try the unofficial Fedora Core 4.1: > >> > >> > >> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-September/ > >> msg00314.ht > >> ml > > > > Looks too unstable. Might make matters worse. > > > >> Hope this helps, > > > > -- > > ----------- > > Analabha Roy > > Graduate Student > > Department Of Physics > > University Of Texas > > 1 University Station C1600 > > Austin TX 78712-0264 > > United States > > Emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Homepage: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~daneel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Siglinux mailing list > > Siglinux@utacm.org > > http://www.utacm.org:81/mailman/listinfo/siglinux -- ----------- Analabha Roy Graduate Student Department Of Physics University Of Texas 1 University Station C1600 Austin TX 78712-0264 United States Emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~daneel _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list Siglinux@utacm.org http://www.utacm.org:81/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
