[SOLVED] Slax Installation Problem

TheStarLion · 11-26-2009, 04:28 PM

Hmm, not quite what I expected. I don't have any actual Fedora install media to hand either, one of the reasons I chose an internet install like this.

linus72 · 11-26-2009, 04:32 PM

Well, I dont know how you could go thru the install process unless you either do it for real
which means installing it to a partition
or thru Virtualization

TheStarLion · 11-26-2009, 04:33 PM

Well, it will install on the laptop, when it's finished retrieving the rest of the install.img (currently, it's half way done)
I was just curious to know what would happen after, so I'd be prepared, but I guess I'll have to wait and see.

linus72 · 11-26-2009, 04:35 PM

LOL
Fedora 12 was a bit buggy on my PC
I dont remeber what all the installer asked besides the usual stuff

I did note that firefox was slow
and it was just "buggy"
so I then made my fat32 usb partition where fed 12 was
sdb2 like I was talking about earlier

TheStarLion · 11-26-2009, 04:37 PM

Well, we'll see what happens, if the Firefox from the Repo's is buggy, then I'll grab it direct from the site, and install it in /opt instead. If it's Fedora itself, then I'll just see what I can do to un-bug it then.
Thanks for your help, hopefully, this install.img will work alright, and I'll be booting into a freshly installed Fedora system before long.

catkin · 11-27-2009, 01:31 AM

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Originally Posted by TheStarLion

I realised that when I saw that Slackware has 6 installation CD's and I have no idea which one I want.
At the moment I'm trying Fedora, if that works and I want to use it, then all well and good, if not, then I'll come back and have another look at Slackware to try and understand which images I need, and then work from there.

Sorry -- could not find a list of the CD contents but I only used the first two for a graphical workstation running Xfce desktop. The full distribution is listed here. CDs one and two contain the base system plus packages a ap d e f k l n t tcl x xap y.

Good luck with the Fedora installation.

TheStarLion · 11-27-2009, 06:11 AM

Yeah, the letters were the part that lost me entirely. I might try again to understand it later, since for now...

We have success - Fedora 12 is now powering my laptop. Aside from a slightly longer boot-up time, and the SELinux I'm not used to having around, the improvement from Ubuntu Karmic is clear.
Thread can be marked solved.

catkin · 11-27-2009, 06:59 AM

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Originally Posted by TheStarLion

Thread can be marked solved.

You can do that via editing the first post and clicking on "Thread tools". Glad you've got a decent OS on there now.

TheStarLion · 11-27-2009, 07:01 AM

Ubuntu is slowly but definatly falling out of favor with Fedora showing off now.
The only two nags so far are that I had to manually add myself to the Sudo list (never had to do that before, but it's done now) and I can't use Synaptic, my favorite package manager. But since that's for .deb based distros, I'll find another to learn.