[NTLUG:Discuss] Fedora 15 Installation

[Dennis]

I have been attempting to install Fedora 15 on a older Dell system and 
have been running into considerable difficulty.

Apparently Fedora is branching off into new changes that may be required 
to improve things, but it definitely is not a simple installation 
process on a multi-drive system.

I first noticed an issue with Fedora 12 (may have occurred earlier) that 
when moving a hard drive between different PCs, such as student will do 
in the classroom, that the Ethernet interface changes.  On the surface 
that is not too big of a deal, except that the changes are not stored in 
the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory.  Trouble is that where the 
configuration is stored is no where to be found!  I have searched Google 
and there are no answers (at least to my search).  Now with 15, they 
have changed the interface qualifier from "eth-xx" to "em-xx", I hope 
that there is some justification for this as it does not make sense to 
make these changes.

My attempt today was to install 15 on a system with three hard drives.  
For some reason doing this has failed.  Hopefully it is due to the extra 
drives, but that does not make sense to me.  I was able to install 
Fedora 15 to a single drive, but when attempting to add the two 
additional drives I found that I could update the fstab file but the 
mtab file is now a link to the /proc/mount file.  (I properly fdisked 
the two drives.)  Since /proc/mount is a RAM drive, where does it get 
its information?  Doing a google search did not provide an answer so I 
do not know how one can add a new drive to 15.  At this time I believe 
that it is impossible to add a new drive to a Fedora 15 system.

Add to this GNOME's new design, it is a piece of *****!  If they call 
this improvement, we need to know from what dictionary the pulling the 
definition from.

Sorry for the rambling, but this is very frustrating.

Dennis Rice