On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:40 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Due to an installer regression in Fedora 9 that has yet to be fixed for > > F10 (installer pukes on Samsung hard drives that have a '/' in their > > model name), I had to install F8 on a box last week, and opted to go > > straight to rawhide from there. It worked fine after sorting out some > > things manually to get the sysvinit to upstart bits right, but was > > certainly not entirely straight-forward, and this was a minimal install > > to begin with. So yeah, FC6 straight to F9... Not recommended, unless > > you *really* know what you're doing. Incremental upgrades from 6 to 7 to > > 8 to 9 might be less pain and suffering. > > Hmm.. I wonder if this is the same issue I had with F9 on a > system with four seagate barracuda drives where it wouldn't > read the disks so crashed in the early installer with a python > backtrace?
Yep, nice long backtrace when probing the disks -- extra-fun with rawhide, because if you try to save the backtrace to bugzilla or even to a usb stick or another machine via ssh, *that* backtraces too... :) -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
