[wplug] Fedora Core 9 Notes:

[Larry Daberko]

I've had the same problems with Fedora 8 DVDs.  I ended up installing over
NFS.  Less painful that way.  Although I think my problem may have been
hardware related.

-Larry Daberko


> I have been installing Fedora Core 9 over the last few days and wanted
> to share some observations about the installation.  I would appreciate
> comments from others with Core 9 installation experience.
>
> First I downloaded and burned a copy of the DVD (i386).  This was
> rejected as missing a file.
>
> I then downloaded and burned the CD's.  Disk 2 was reported as having an
> error.
>
> I re-downloaded the CD's and DVD's, verified the sha1 checksums and
> burned new CD's and DVD.  The DVD was reported to be missing a file.
> The first CD checked good but all others checked bad.  I rechecked the
> CD's and they all reported good???
>
> I started the install from the CD's and all started fine.  The second CD
> was not accepted but the second CD from the first burn (previously bad)
> was accepted???   The third CD would not be accepted from either burn.
>
> I replaced the DVD drive with a known good CD drive and started fresh.
> Same flaky results.
>
> I discovered that if I did not close the CD drive and just clicked on
> the display button that the drive would close and the disk would be
> accepted.  At least most of the time.
>
> After the installation all looked to be good until I tried to adjust the
> clock time through the GNOME GUI.  I could adjust the time but when I
> entered my root password in the authentication window, it was repeatedly
> rejected.  The password check out elsewhere so I know it was entered
> correctly.  After a few rejections, I hit cancel and the new time was
> accepted???
>
> I then started to apply updates.  After a while the system started to
> display "sleep" and "hibernation" problems windows.  Selecting any
> button in these windows just shut them.
>
> I let the update run overnight and this morning found several error
> reports related to a notepad tool.  I guess I will be debugging that
> tonight.
>
> This PC had previously run Windows 2000 and Fedora Core 8 with no
> problems, (I may have to go back to 8).
>
> Fedora Core 9's project name is "Sulphur", could it be that this distro
> is named appropriately?
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