Well I'll tell you. What a week (or two) it's been for me. Never mind "using Fedora". It's been as if I've never used Linux.
Starting back a week or two ago I had hard disk issues with the machine I call my server. That lasted 2-3 days before I finally ironed that out. Then I decided that I wanted to install Fedora 19 Alpha on my desktop. After the ISO was downloaded I discovered that it was too big to fit on to a DVD. Drat! Now I've got to create a bootable USB stick. How does one do that? Research it. I spent some time researching and was able to figure it out, but, I couldn't get the desktop to boot from the stick so I tried it on the laptop. The laptop booted just fine and I was able to successfully install Alpha there. Nice!
Now, why won't this darned desktop boot from the same USB stick? I thought it may be too old so I bought a new one. That turned into a nightmare of it's own. I think I hosed it to be honest but we're going to try to exchange it.
Back to the old USB stick. I finally figured out that to boot this desktop from USB one needs to hit F9 after post and choose the desired media (This much I knew). What I didn't realize was that to boot from this USB stick I need not choose "removable media" (seemed a reasonable choice), I needed to choose "hard disks". There the USB stick was listed and available. Once I discovered this I was able to install Fedora 19.
This is by far not my first Linux installation. I've done this literally hundreds of times, but this time was destined to be different. Anaconda. Oh Anaconda, it's not your fault is it? My intention was to install Fedora 19 to /dev/sda7, a partition that was (and still is) home to the latest Mageia. I was careful with Anaconda, I really was. I dutifully chose partition 7 and told the installer that this was where we were going to do all of the work. Long story short, I installed Fedora 19 to /dev/sda1, thereby overwriting my Windows 7 install. Bummer. That's not what I wanted to do. I actually use and want WIndows 7. Now I've got to reinstall it and put up with the never ending updates, then at some point I'll have to call Microsoft and verify my installation. Additionally I'll have to reinstall grub. None of this is a big deal. It's all just the way my last week or 2 has gone.
By the way. I blame all of this on me, not Anaconda in the case of the Fedora installation, or the disk in the case of the disk issues on my server.
Starting back a week or two ago I had hard disk issues with the machine I call my server. That lasted 2-3 days before I finally ironed that out. Then I decided that I wanted to install Fedora 19 Alpha on my desktop. After the ISO was downloaded I discovered that it was too big to fit on to a DVD. Drat! Now I've got to create a bootable USB stick. How does one do that? Research it. I spent some time researching and was able to figure it out, but, I couldn't get the desktop to boot from the stick so I tried it on the laptop. The laptop booted just fine and I was able to successfully install Alpha there. Nice!
Now, why won't this darned desktop boot from the same USB stick? I thought it may be too old so I bought a new one. That turned into a nightmare of it's own. I think I hosed it to be honest but we're going to try to exchange it.
Back to the old USB stick. I finally figured out that to boot this desktop from USB one needs to hit F9 after post and choose the desired media (This much I knew). What I didn't realize was that to boot from this USB stick I need not choose "removable media" (seemed a reasonable choice), I needed to choose "hard disks". There the USB stick was listed and available. Once I discovered this I was able to install Fedora 19.
This is by far not my first Linux installation. I've done this literally hundreds of times, but this time was destined to be different. Anaconda. Oh Anaconda, it's not your fault is it? My intention was to install Fedora 19 to /dev/sda7, a partition that was (and still is) home to the latest Mageia. I was careful with Anaconda, I really was. I dutifully chose partition 7 and told the installer that this was where we were going to do all of the work. Long story short, I installed Fedora 19 to /dev/sda1, thereby overwriting my Windows 7 install. Bummer. That's not what I wanted to do. I actually use and want WIndows 7. Now I've got to reinstall it and put up with the never ending updates, then at some point I'll have to call Microsoft and verify my installation. Additionally I'll have to reinstall grub. None of this is a big deal. It's all just the way my last week or 2 has gone.
By the way. I blame all of this on me, not Anaconda in the case of the Fedora installation, or the disk in the case of the disk issues on my server.