Comments on: Fedora 9’s Broken Install

By: Cal

Cal — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:46:12 +0000

It’s even more fun if you try a clean install from the DVD ISO. A bare bones install works just fine. Heaven help you if you actually want a usable system after the install (where ‘usable’ is defined as modifying which packages do — and do not — get installed). I’ve been using Redhat/Fedora since the days of Redhat 6 and this is by far the buggiest install process I have ever seen.

By: Leon Mattinson

Leon Mattinson — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:11:02 +0000

I have tried Linux and like it But would like which one you think is the best? It is time we had something that isn’t (Microsoft) Would some one send me an email and let me know what they think. Thanks for your time. I live in Ottawa

By: Raj Thukral

Raj Thukral — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:39:52 +0000

the vim-X11 package is not on the DVD, and neither is the xchat package - so the only way you would get them is by installing over the net after the base install. Not good.

btw, Don, I added the livna repositories at work and the freshrpms at home - both are incomplete as of now.

Also, the nvidia driver is not compatible with the new Xorg ABI (can be forced with an ignore ABI directive but it doesn’t give you 3D, just basic functionality.

cheers!
–Raj.

By: Dan Winker

Dan Winker — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:53:49 +0000

gvim wouldn’t work after upgrading from fedora 8 to fedora 9 - same error message. Now fedora 9 wants to download 312 M of updates. That will get me in trouble at work. I see vim-X11 is one of them. I’ll try just that.

yum update vim-X11

Well, at least that fixed it. What happens if you do a clean install of fedora 9? Do you get xchat and gvim (vim-X11) if you want them?

By: seiler

seiler — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:01:02 +0000

hey Raj. Have you added the livna repository, now that it has F9 packages?