It recently took me a couple days of messing around to install F16 KDE 64 bit on a Dell XPS 17.
Attempt #1. I tried installing via the F16 KDE 64 bit live ISO both via a USB device and from a CDROM. IIRC, I think it boiled down to a kernel error when trying to boot the live image. Attempt #2. I tried installing via the F16 install DVD. IIRC, it went through the entire install process and then threw an error about not finding a bootable device on the reboot. Attempt #3. I was able to successfully install F15 from the F15 KDE 64 bit ISO on a USB device. I then ran preupgrade. It ran to completion, but upon rebooting anacondo hung. Attempt #4. I was able to successfully install F16 by upgrading the F15 KDE 64 bit installation with the F16 64 bit installation DVD. During the process, I elected the upgrade the existing F15 installation as well as upgrade the boot image. I'm not sure why this worked and the other methods didn't, but it did. This was a very frustrating installation/upgrade process. I hope this helps someone. Now all I have to do is get nouveau (or the proprietary nVidia driver) using the GT555 video "card" across several displays. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
