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Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Beta

oranda — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:24:20 +0000

Vmware fusion - Go into your VMWare Device Profile and remove the second CDROM device that has "Using autoinst.iso".

This was passed onto me from klank-rno at linuxquestions.org

worked for me :-)

Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Beta

oranda — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:32:55 +0000

I'm getting the same with vmware fusion. I reported it on bugzilla and was told it was a known problem with vmware.

If there is a solution I'd love to know too.
As Fedora 14 is only a day and some hours old, I suppose I shouldn't be too impatient.

Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Beta

phx — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 03:52:12 +0000

I met the same problem, how to fix this? I'm waiting for the answer,thanks.

A common man's Wireless Card

ebiederm — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:17:10 +0000

Does this work in 2.6.32? 2.6.36?

I can't tell from your comments if there is a regression in the driver
or if fedora just happens to include a problematic patch.

From the sounds of it, someone did something that caused the driver to regresss in more recent kernels and that just hasn't been addressed yet.

A common man's Wireless Card

mpr22 — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:48:14 +0000

If i can make it Work, Why Fedora Cannot?

Distribution maintainers are human, and therefore sometimes make mistakes. Did you file a bug report?

Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Beta

vonbrand — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 02:54:22 +0000

Don't worry, I've commited such fatfingering too. Plus my full share of random brainos ;-)

Thanks for making Fedora (and Linux) better!

A common man's Wireless Card

carlitos.esquer — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:54:20 +0000

It's a TP-LINK WN651G, and i told you before, this card works vey fine in Ubuntu, Debian an My Own Linux based on Linux From Scratch (6.3 a very old one) I use a vanilla Kernel 2.6.28 that i compiled myself...
If i can make it Work, Why Fedora Cannot?

About ReiserFS (Version 3.6), it is fast and very reliable until now (Two years after)... Never mind fscks, never mind monthly checks and all that Ext3, Ext4 stuff i hate.

Stop that trend (releasing, releasing, releasing)

rahulsundaram — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:53:27 +0000

Although I can't advocate using it, Fedora does actually have the ability to use reiserfs during installation time. At installation boot prompt, type linux selinux=0 reiserfs. You get whatever upstream provides. No explicit testing or support.

Stop that trend (releasing, releasing, releasing)

mpr22 — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:35:43 +0000

Fedora is not Debian stable, or CentOS... and this is a good thing, because those things are already available.

(As for ReiserFS... after hearing someone's horror story about what happened when they fsck'd a ReiserFS volume that held a file containing a ReiserFS filesystem image, I promised myself I would never use it.)

Stop that trend (releasing, releasing, releasing)

luya — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:53:29 +0000

Please, there are enough people here who want to try latest technologies instead of living into inertia.

You post about wireless card without mentioning its name so readers will be see what you are talking about. It could be an obscure version very few heard.

ReiserFS is not officially supported by Fedora Project due to its inability to use SELinux as required. You can use it at the installer prompt:

linux selinux=0 reiserfs

Be in mind you will be on your own. The last thing a project wants to do is to expose users to unsupported partition.

Stop that trend (releasing, releasing, releasing)

carlitos.esquer — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:43:07 +0000

I think that Fedora Community must stop this releasing trend wich only affects Linux.
Consider this, i tried to install from Fedora 11 to Fedora 13 in my computer but never get my Wireless card functioning. Nevertheless, if i use my own compiled LFS based Linux i can use all the hardware my computers (3 different ones) have.
The default ath5k driver damages for a few minutes my wireless card (ok, maybe a kernel problem but i use 2.6.28 with no problem), making it unusable for 5 or 10 minutes after. I turn off my computer, wait for some minutes and then i can get online in a hurry. No problems with wicd, no problems with pass keys, NO problems at all.
Besides, every time i tried to install Fedora, i cannot get my ReiserFS file systems up, my question is why they not include ReiserFS, Ubuntu does, Debian does, even Mandriva does.

That's my story, i'm sorry

Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Beta

parimi — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:36:49 +0000

I just realized it was user-error :( I was booting off a different iso image. Serves me right for trying to do some beta testing

Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Beta

vonbrand — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:28:49 +0000

Did you report this at Bugzilla, as requested? Creating an account there is easy...

Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Beta

parimi — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:33:57 +0000

Tried installing beta from iso using vmware workstation, but ran into error even before installer started:

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The following problem occurred on line 65 of the kickstart file:

Section does not end with %%end.

install exited abnormally [1/1]

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