Re: installer final touches matters

2013-01-22 Thread Máirín Duffy
Please take discussions like these to the installer development list; fedora-devel is too broad a list to discuss mintuae like this I think. On 01/20/2013 05:15 AM, Muayyad AlSadi wrote: > we see 3 items, one of them "no disk selected" > it has the same level of importance as the rest two, > I bel

Re: installer final touches matters

2013-01-22 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 01/21/2013 07:37 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > * DO NOT REWRITE code! It will ALWAYS break things! You're joking, right? If nobody ever rewrote code... we wouldn't have Linux. ~m -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: installer final touches matters

2013-01-22 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:17:48 +0100 Kevin Kofler wrote: > John Reiser wrote: > > I await documentation of claims that anaconda RAM requirements > > have been "skyrocketing" over the last several releases. > > The officially documented RAM requirements are, at least: > RHL 9: http://www.gurulabs.c

Re: installer final touches matters

2013-01-22 Thread Kevin Kofler
John Reiser wrote: > I await documentation of claims that anaconda RAM requirements > have been "skyrocketing" over the last several releases. The officially documented RAM requirements are, at least: RHL 9: http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads/RELEASE-NOTES-RHL9.html | Memory: | - Minimum for text-m

Re: installer final touches matters

2013-01-21 Thread John Reiser
On 01/21/2013 06:30 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: > For the last four hours I was trying to install Fedora 18-64 on the computer > and for an hour and a half I've been trying to do an install that hasn't > worked; if was like experiencing Microsoft's "blue screen of death". > Thankfully after pulli

Re: installer final touches matters

2013-01-21 Thread John Reiser
> I believe that fedora-18 can be installed using less [than 511MB] RAM, ... Yes. I just successfully completed a default install of Gnome3 desktop from Fedora-18-x86_64-DVD,iso (converted to USB2.0 using livecd-iso-to-disk) using only the additional kernel boot parameters " mem=383m nomemcheck"

Re: installer final touches matters

2013-01-21 Thread Richard Vickery
For the last four hours I was trying to install Fedora 18-64 on the computer and for an hour and a half I've been trying to do an install that hasn't worked; if was like experiencing Microsoft's "blue screen of death". Thankfully after pulling out the CD I had 17 installed. And... um... this isn't

Re: installer final touches matters

2013-01-21 Thread John Reiser
On 01/21/2013 04:37 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > In addition, Anaconda's memory use has been skyrocketing for several > releases, and the design changes in F18 have done nothing to address that > issue. (In fact, they likely made it worse.) That claim is dead wrong, at least for graphical install

Re: installer final touches matters

2013-01-21 Thread Richard Vickery
...and what are we to do when the screen goes black? On Jan 20, 2013 2:15 AM, "Muayyad AlSadi" wrote: > hi, > > the fedora's new installer got many innovative features > > but it's missing many critical easy to fix final touches from user > experiance point of view > > let me mention some > I've

Re: installer final touches matters

2013-01-21 Thread Kevin Kofler
Muayyad AlSadi wrote: > the fedora's new installer got many innovative features > > but it's missing many critical easy to fix final touches from user > experiance point of view And worse, it's got a known bug list longer than Window$ 95's! The way this was handled is really a catastrophe and sh

Re: installer final touches matters

2013-01-21 Thread Muayyad AlSadi
my point was not about my specific case, I have managed to install fedora 18 the point is about to tell the user what he has done wrong and how he should correct it. On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Vratislav Podzimek wrote: > On Sun, 2013-01-20 at 13:15 +0300, Muayyad AlSadi wrote: > > hi, >

Re: installer final touches matters

2013-01-21 Thread Vratislav Podzimek
On Sun, 2013-01-20 at 13:15 +0300, Muayyad AlSadi wrote: > hi, > > > the fedora's new installer got many innovative features > > > but it's missing many critical easy to fix final touches from user > experiance point of view > > > let me mention some > > I've tried fedora 18 live cd, > > >

installer final touches matters

2013-01-20 Thread Muayyad AlSadi
hi, the fedora's new installer got many innovative features but it's missing many critical easy to fix final touches from user experiance point of view let me mention some I've tried fedora 18 live cd, I was offered to choose LVM, standard or BTRFS and later went through partitioning process an