Re: F17-Alpha DVD basic install success with comments

2012-03-27 Thread Peter Gueckel
Adam Williamson wrote: > At the user level it's pretty simple: it's a modern replacement for > BIOS. It's an entirely new system firmware standard for PCs. > > The most user-noticeable features of UEFI are probably secure boot > (which has been discussed ad infinitum: the important thing here is

Re: F17-Alpha DVD basic install success with comments

2012-03-26 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 18:09 -0600, Peter Gueckel wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > Could you try one? > > I have to pay when I go over my monthly GB download limit. > > > [EFI]'s a system firmware level thing. > > That's what I thought, but, having googled it numerous times, it seems to be

Re: F17-Alpha DVD basic install success with comments

2012-03-26 Thread Peter Gueckel
Adam Williamson wrote: > Could you try one? I have to pay when I go over my monthly GB download limit. > [EFI]'s a system firmware level thing. That's what I thought, but, having googled it numerous times, it seems to be quite mysterious, still, and straight answers are hard to come by. --

Re: F17-Alpha DVD basic install success with comments

2012-03-26 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 14:31 -0600, Peter Gueckel wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > Do early 17 DVDs work for you? Have you tried? > > This is the first Fedora 17 disk I have tried. > > > The 17 Beta TCs should still be available at stage/, and the > > Alpha is of course available 'officially

Re: F17-Alpha DVD basic install success with comments

2012-03-26 Thread Peter Gueckel
Adam Williamson wrote: > Do early 17 DVDs work for you? Have you tried? This is the first Fedora 17 disk I have tried. > The 17 Beta TCs should still be available at stage/, and the > Alpha is of course available 'officially'. I didn't bother with any of the alphas. Particularly, because of the

Re: F17-Alpha DVD basic install success with comments

2012-03-26 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 13:32 -0600, Peter Gueckel wrote: > Peter Gueckel wrote: > > > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > >> Did you checksum it? > > > > No, I know I should have, but I didn't. I was too lazy to check. > > > > OK. I finally bothered to checksum it and it is OK. Bit confused then, rea

Re: F17-Alpha DVD basic install success with comments

2012-03-26 Thread Peter Gueckel
Peter Gueckel wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > >> Did you checksum it? > > No, I know I should have, but I didn't. I was too lazy to check. > OK. I finally bothered to checksum it and it is OK. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: F17-Alpha DVD basic install success with comments

2012-03-26 Thread Peter Gueckel
Adam Williamson wrote: > Did you checksum it? No, I know I should have, but I didn't. I was too lazy to check. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: F17-Alpha DVD basic install success with comments

2012-03-26 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 03/26/2012 03:31 AM, Peter Gueckel wrote: Then the computer rebooted, read the DVD, said it would boot it in 3 seconds, then a message appeared in the upper left corner about "trying to allocate 1135 pages... for vmlinuz" (I think it said). Sounds like a kernel bug so go and file it. You pr

Re: F17-Alpha DVD basic install success with comments

2012-03-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2012-03-25 at 21:31 -0600, Peter Gueckel wrote: > stan wrote: > > > Overall assessment - a smooth and positive experience. > > I downloaded the Beta Release Candidate 1 and just tried to install it to a > spare partition. > > This is what happened: > > The computer booted, read the DVD

Re: F17-Alpha DVD basic install success with comments

2012-03-25 Thread Peter Gueckel
stan wrote: > Overall assessment - a smooth and positive experience. I downloaded the Beta Release Candidate 1 and just tried to install it to a spare partition. This is what happened: The computer booted, read the DVD, said it would boot it in 3 seconds, then a message appeared in the upper