[plug] Fedora Core 5 - Install

[hatari]

Arie Hol wrote:
> I have just spent the last 5 hours trying to do a default install of 
> Fedora Core 5 - and at this point I am ready to say goodbye to Fedora and 
> Linux altogether.

=I still dabble, but the pain can be excruciating at times.

> I have never had so much trouble trying to get Linux installed and 
> running - even going back to the old versions of Slackware installed from 
> floppy disks.

=I agree.  In the last several versions of several distros there are 
lots of "flakey" things going on.

> 7 attempts to install each one taking a different approach and all with 
> the same results.

=Arie, I tried 2 attempts myself - from 2 different disks.  I stopped 
there.  They failed to install grub on /boot for multi-OS.  (ie no boot-up)

So I tried Mepis (for a reason which I wont go into).  After prompting I 
turned OFF certain Services for security reasons.  After loading I found 
that not one had been adjusted.  So you can't trust a system for 
security after that, can you?

> Errors ! Errors ! Errors ! and more Errors !

Yep.


Not much help for your problem, but just letting you know others out 
here are still finding (too much?) pain in Linux - as it begins to 
fracture into a thousand distros.


Regards,
wayne