Number 9, number 9. Fedora 9 Preview has been cleared for takeoff! [LWN.net]

Number 9, number 9. Fedora 9 Preview has been cleared for takeoff!

Posted Apr 21, 2008 4:25 UTC (Mon) by charris (subscriber, #13263)
In reply to: Number 9, number 9. Fedora 9 Preview has been cleared for takeoff! by kripkenstein
Parent article: Number 9, number 9. Fedora 9 Preview has been cleared for takeoff!

I attempted takeoff, but met major turbulence and crashed.

1) It took two tries before the DVD booted, it hung the first time.
2) The install program hung in a loop after checking the DVD.
3) Anaconda came up in the wrong screen resolution.
4) Annoying popups covered the city names in the time setting map. 
5) Anaconda crashed while I was selecting custom install partitions.

That did it for me. I hope the final release clears up these problems, but time is short.

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Number 9, number 9. Fedora 9 Preview has been cleared for takeoff!

Posted Apr 21, 2008 7:59 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Do file bug reports. Hope doesn't accomplish stuff without associated action.

Number 9, number 9. Fedora 9 Preview has been cleared for takeoff!

Posted Apr 22, 2008 0:52 UTC (Tue) by rarecactus (guest, #51688) [Link]

If your CD is scratchy, or your drive is on its last legs, it will often just "go out to
lunch" when the OS asks for information. Often this will be accompanied by wheezing or
scratching noises as it tries to spin up and fails, over and over.

On older hardware, it takes a few tries before the machine will boot off of a CD-- any CD.
Laptop CD drives are the worst-- the older ones will sometimes even choke on factory-pressed
CDs.

Every time I try to install a new OS, I invariably get checksum errors on my install media.
Never fails. 

The moral of the story? DVD/CD drives are flaky. Burned discs were always a semi-standard
hack. Just do a min-install by CD and then pull everything else from the network. Much less
hassle.