ways installing fedora may fail
or “how i have wasted hours of my time”
- if you download and burn the x64 isos, they will not install on a 32bit processor machine
- if your device configuration has a primary master disk and secondary master cd drive, it will not successfully mount the cd drive to install but you may see glimmers of hope that convince you it might work if you move your devices between primary/secondary, master/slave, and jumper select/cable select. this is false hope.
- you may reformat and reinstall windows, create a FAT32 partition to hold the setup image and incorrectly think that when installing with askmethod you should have the uncompressed files instead of the isos.
- you may realize you need the isos and they may appear to copy safely over your wireless network but have experienced some corruption on disc 3
- you may decide that you need to use a usb drive to safely copy the isos and may assume that this copy is sure to succeed. you may be wrong again.
- but before realizing the disc 1 iso failed, you may research the error message and be led to believe that using the ide=nomda flag will fix your problem. it will not.
- you may finally get text askmethod to work and complete the install only to ultimately learn that you cannot keep X running for more that about 5 minutes at a time.
god what a piece of shit. some of this is clearly my slightly eccentric hardware but at least in windows i have some reasonable expectation that things will work or give me a not totally misleading error message if they do not.