Re: Fedora 16 is released

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

Kevin,

Live CDs don't get quite the same rigorous testing that Installation
DVDs do. Suggest you file a bug report in Bugzilla
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com) against that particular Live CD.
Corrections (re-spins) are fairly common for Live CDs.

I don't suppose you tried a 32-bit Live CD....?

--Doc


On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 08:13 -0600, Kevin Thomas wrote:
> I downloaded the live cd.
> 
> On Nov 9, 2011 6:35 AM, "Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>
> wrote:
>         Kevin,
>         
>         "I just downloaded the Fedora 16 64-bit iso"
>         
>         Which iso did you download? One of the live CDs or the
>         installation DVD?
>         
>         --Doc
>         
>         On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 17:31 -0600, Kevin Thomas wrote:
>         > I just downloaded the Fedora 16 64-bit iso a couple hours
>         ago and
>         > burned it to disc. I'm trying to boot off the disc on my
>         Dell XPS
>         > laptop. However, it fails to boot (just like Fedora 15 did),
>         but with
>         > a different error message. The error message I got seemed to
>         suggest
>         > it couldn't find the root partition on the disc. This is
>         what it said:
>         >
>         > dracut Warning: No root device
>         > "live:/dev/disk/by-label/Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-Desktop.is"
>         is found
>         >
>         > Dropping to debug shell.
>         >
>         > sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
>         > dracut:/#
>         >
>         >
>         > Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there a way around it?
>         I don't
>         > know why I'm having so many problems on this Dell XPS
>         laptop.  I just
>         > got it about 3 months ago and I've had a hell of a time
>         getting it to
>         > boot from any Fedora live media, although it will boot from
>         Scientific
>         > Linux media just fine.
>         >
>         > On 11/08/2011 06:42 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
>         > > We got an early Veteran's Day present this week. Fedora 16
>         was released
>         > > yesterday rather than Friday. You can use the attached
>         scripts to
>         > > download the entire release, including the 1300+ updates
>         that have
>         > > already been released.
>         > >
>         > > As always, edit the LOCAL_DEST and LOCAL_USER variables to
>         match your
>         > > system. Put these in /usr/local/bin, chmod them to 755,
>         and chown them
>         > > to root:root.
>         > >
>         > > Enjoy,
>         > > --Doc




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