[vox-tech] Fedora install question

[Brian Lavender]

I installed Fedora 18 on the Thinkpad X1 Carbon touch. I had to download
the full DVD install image and not use the live image. 

I believe it was the following:
http://mirror.hmc.edu/fedora/linux/releases/18/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-18-x86_64-DVD.iso

Fedora 19 is coming out in a few days. Remember that Fedora is community 
supported and things are expected to sometimes not to work. The installer
is brand new for 18.

brian

On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 03:40:28PM -0700, Cylar Z wrote:
>    Hey all,
>    Has anyone worked with Fedora 18? I tried installing the GNOME version
>    of it today, and so I downloaded the image, burned it to a DVD and
>    booted from that on the workstation where I want to install it.
>    After what seemed like a ridiculously long load time, I finally got to
>    the opening screen that says "Fedora 18." I was given the option of
>    logging on as a "Fedora live user" or "other." I picked the first
>    option and it says, "Logged on" but then the computer just sits there.
>    I thought it would then take me to another screen where I'd be offered
>    the option of continuing to run the "live" version or installing the OS
>    to my hard disk, but neither was presented. I checked the manual on the
>    fedoraproject.org website and it says I'm supposed to be offered this
>    option.
>    I went to "shutdown" and as the computer was preparing to turn itself
>    off, I noticed some red text, possibly including some error messages,
>    but they went by too fast for me to read before the system shut down.
>    Any suggestions? I was thinking of trying again with the KDE version
>    but was afraid of having the same results.
>    As an aside, I don't have any particular loyalty to RedHat, other than
>    that I've worked with it in the past and am used to the RPM system for
>    installing packages. I'm still kind of green when it comes to Linux,
>    but I wanted to have a "real" server where I could log in as root and
>    play around with the command line and GUI interfaces. (I'm thinking of
>    becoming Linux+ certified and thought it might benefit me to learn
>    hands-on.) I thought about using Ubuntu instead but it isn't really
>    what I had in mind.
> 
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Brian Lavender
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture