On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 08:50:53AM -0400, Roy wrote:
> In my experience installing Fedora is no different in a multi-boot scenario
> than any other distribution except that it does not like to add other
> distributions to its grub boot loader.
Yup, will only add Windows. Unlike the other 300 or so distros, the
Fedora developers haven't figured out how to recognize and add other
Linux installs. Perhaps it's part of their We're like Windows, only
worse, outlook. :)
Installing it is easy provided that
> you take your time and read carefully.
Again, unlike other distributions, their default is LVM (logical
volumes), which you might want to avoid unless you're familiar with
them. They're more useful on servers and where you want to spread data
across multiple physical disks.
The installation process is in two
> steps. You don't add your user name until you re-boot which may be unnerving
> for some. For others it is just expected to be this way and Ubuntu's method
> of doing it in one go is strange.
Well, neither is traditional actually, In more intellgently done
systems, such as the BSDs, you have the opportunity to add a user,
althugh said user won't have root privilege, and also set a password for
root.
In Fedora's typically poorly thought out manner, you only set root--now,
on first boot, if you're lucky, the firstboot program will run, allowing
you to set a user. What happens quite frequently, as Fedora chooses
their defaults the way they do everything else, i.e., moronically is
that you'll either be greeted with a blank screen (0 default timeout on
grub, more stupidity), or wind up with a GUI log in screen that won't
give you an option to log in. Feodra doesn't allow root login to their
deafult GUI by default, as they are trying to keep you from shooting
yourself in the foot.
One suggestion is that when install is completed, you use ctl+alt+F2 to
get a console. (This is before clicking the reboot button.) Then if
you look at the /mnt/sysimage/etc/grub.conf, you can edit grub to have a
default timeout of 3 or 5 seconds, anyway, enough so that you don't have
to worry about accessing it in case there's a problem.
Also, you google a wee bit, you should find an illustrated installation
guide on fedoraproject.org, (I think--I'd have to google to find the
exact location.) You might also find the mjmwired.net guides very
valuable.
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