[ale] Fedora install?

[Scott McBrien]

Sean,

If you're running F13, you need to change to a longer term distro like Cent or some Ubuntu LTS.  What you're running now hasn't gotten any updates in about 3 years.  'Upgrading' to a current Fedora is probably not going to work since things like the RAID metadata superblocks are a different format.  That's probably why your install choked on them.

Don't use F17, it's already fallen off the update cycle.  F19 is the latest stable Fedora, but 20 is going to be dropping soon 12/3.  Really, if you're using Fedora you need to be able to dedicate some time to upgrade every 6months or so, at a minimum, once every 12 months.

-Scott

> On Oct 23, 2013, at 5:15 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Although interesting, the recent threads on Fedora/RedHat/Centos/Ubuntu/Debian installs failed to answer my current question:
> My current system:
> AMD 64x2 1ghz chip w/4 gig memory
> 2 hard drives in Raid 1:
> Partition size used
> /boot .1 gig 63%
> / 10 gig 27%
> /home 198 gig 21%
> Current OS: FC 13 - 64 bit
> I can not upgrade directly (although I am constantly being proded to do so by the OS) because the web-based installer gags on the Raid.
> I have in hand both Centos 6.3 X86-64 and the same in FC 17.
> Given what I have read here on Ale and elsewhere, I am extremely hesitant to tackle the FC18 install routine.
> Should I install the Centos 6.3 and configure it as a desktop?
> Or should I install FC 17 and try to upgrade via the web-based installer? That question also asks if the newer web-based install routine can deal with a Raid-1. I don't know one way or the other.
> Or should I now skip to FC 19, which seems to have a more useable install routine?
> Or should I wait until FC 20 is stable and try that?
> Or give up on Red Hat altogether and install a 64 bit version of Mint, which I also have available?
> Sean
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