[NTLUG:Discuss] Fedora 15 Installation

[Daniel Hauck]

On 09/06/2011 10:35 PM, Dennis wrote:
> 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

I am a Fedora user and I whole-heartedly agree with your sentiment on 
Fedora 15.  As for the ethernet name changes pre-F15, look, to the UDEV 
rules.  You will find it keys off the mac address to determine which 
device is which.

As for HDD configuration with multiple drives?  I am unaware of such 
problems, but then again, I usually don't install that way.  I have one 
machine with 3 HDDs running F14 at the moment (because I hate F15) and I 
manually configured the drives were the first two are in a mirrored RAID 
(software) and the third is the /home.  The trick here, is that it is 
manually done I think.

As for manually adding a drive after the fact, I am confused by what you 
are seeing.  But since I have aborted F15 entirely, I don't know what 
you are talking about exactly.  I did set up F15-XFCE in a VM on my 
laptop at home running F14.  My fstab is stand-alone though my mtab is a 
symlink as you observed.

I can say that I recently had to figure out a way to manually mount an 
eSATA HDD to my system because it did not want to auto-mount it on my 
F14 system.  It's not without complications, however.  I used fstab to 
do this and identified the drive through its UUID number.  But something 
else is still identifying the drive 'automatically' and wants to mount 
it on /media but it doesn't actually mount it -- just holds a place for 
it in nautilus.  All my mental energy is devoted to waking up at the 
moment so I'll see about looking into this later today if I can.  This 
makes me more curious.  The "right way" is to use LVM I suppose, but I 
only like LVM on servers.

But as for the new GNOME and the things Fedora has been doing; "change 
for the sake of change" in many cases... sad and annoying.