Fedora Core 2 Has Major Problems
 

I've never seen anything like Core 2 before. It's in major bad shape. I would suggest to anyone not to use it until it's fixed. Stay with Fedora Core 1.

Computer Repair Service (CRS)

Ummm... Such as?

Fedora Core 2
 

I'm not sure what you mean. It wipes out partition tables, X server doesn't start. There's a lot of posts out there that I never seen with Fedora Core 1. And I haven't seen any good fixes to any of the problems. Check some of my posts. It can't read good partition tables. That's a very bad start.

I agree.... Unfortunately. The partition thing is really bad.

Try creating a partition with fdisk or even cfdisk. Then reboot. Make sure you are on a system WITHOUT important data first. It will create a screwed up partition and as in my case --noboot

Fedora Core 2
 

I've tried every way to partition and upgrade. with no luck. I've used RH from 7.2 on up and never seen anything like this before. Fedora Core 1 is stable. I believe they rushed this verison out without complete testing. By the way I have spent every minute of my free time to get around these problemswith no luck. No software should be this difficult to get to work.

Maybe I'm the exception but I'm having a great time with FC2. Although I did a clean install with an empty hard drive. No problems with X and no partition woes. I found FC2 to be much better than FC2T3.

My 2 cents.

DocDC

yes i too had the problem with a bad partition table my solution was to do an upgrade from core 1 to core 2. i had to erase the partitions created by my original attempts at a fresh install of core 2 before i could boot to any OS. but i must admit i am impressed with fedora core 2.

Fedora Core 2
 

I tried that one also.

Mdk10 ce had the partition problem too, I would have expected fedora to fix it as mdk did. I guess they don't talk to eachother enough.

I used a live-cd distro to set up the partitions and then the install was fine.

Possibly this was mentioned in one of those other threads you mentioned; have you tried enabling LBA in your bios? Seems to fix the problem for some people I have talked to.

Fedora Core 2
 

I've tried that to. Keep up the good replys someone may come up with something that I haven't tried. I've tried Partition Magic 8, Dos, Disk Drake.
I can get it to load without blowing up my MBR on drive 1 but x won't start and can't find any information on how to fix it and this is just one of the problems. I also can't get the floppy to mount from the rescue disk. Etc,Etc. If you guys can solve these two problems I think I would be on a good road.

No major problems
 

I was just posting this to say I haven't had a single problem with Core 2. I dual boot between Xp and Fedora and all I did was install normally, maybe it is because I use a second hard drive for my linux. The only problem I am having is really very trivial. I can't burn audio cd's from my mp3s! So far everything has been stable and very quik, though the boot could be quicker like my Gentoo box.

Can't install at all---I have a Via C3 CPU in my system.
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/....cgi?id=120685

I was getting REALLY excited about FC2, but between this bug and the XP-dual booting issue, it looks like I might be hanging on to FC1 until FC3, unless they release a FC2 bugfix--which I hope they do!

Maybe this is just the kick in the pants I need to try out Gentoo, Debian, or something else.

yes im having the same problem too with that partition thingy in the Installer...... Will there be a better version soon ?? Like 2.0r2 or something ?? (i doubt it)

fedora Core 2
 

I had good luck today Fedora core 2 is up and running. Last night I gave after a very long week of no sucess. I installed Core 1 (everything) which never had any problems and said no more. Today I upgraded Core 2 and installed grub on the second hard drive and every thing went fine. I also canceled all the error messages for the partition and left the core 1 partitions alone and to my surprise it work. I'm starting a new post for a few other problems.