Since several years now, the Anaconda installer gets worse every version. It is basically impossible to use.
The graphical interface allows uses to do less and less, and the graphics always breaks.
Is anyone actually ever testing this???
Since several years now, the Anaconda installer gets worse every version. It is basically impossible to use.
The graphical interface allows uses to do less and less, and the graphics always breaks.
Is anyone actually ever testing this???
Vague, but false
(I’ve seen it Workstation/Server F20-43)
It mainly changed recently, but while my only “issue” was partitioning having trickier interfaces, I can still do it with as-much customization as I was doing before (ext4 or XFS /)
Edit: I haven’t done an OS version update at all to know how Anaconda handles that (always did clean OS installs to blank drives)
My apologies, it very vague as the failures are all over the place.
Today, it failed with an update-reset-cycle in the custom partition setup (Step 3). Can’t do anything from this point on.
Then, install had failed after it could not find some files after I ran a yum update on the life image, in hope someone had done some fixed. Of course not.
In the previous version, a similar graphical issue was present when I logged in the first time after install, so that had to be scrapped as well. Or some aggressive graphics keywords on the boot command line may have helped.
In the connrent version, one can set mount points in the partione editor, but the install ‘forgets’ these. What a useless pain.
I am not aware of any other “standard” software that has been around for > 2 decades and that has that many bugs relative to functionality.
Of course, I realise I should contribute by beta-testing the installer before release rather than after.
I dread that one day in the near future, there will be a version of anaconda that no longer can be installed with any amount of experiment and good will.
I sometimes get the same impression…
I’m using a netinstall ISO from last year because the systemd-boot option no longer works and installs grub2 by default.
Others and I have reported this bug several months ago, but it still doesn’t work.
I would have said that if install fails on one computer, bad enough, but I install it on 5 different computers - different hardware - and it fails on 4 of them … These HP Workstations, Dell Workstation, and custom ASUS workstation motherboard.
Admittedly, they are not the newest machines … but still fine.
Please do not update the life image. It lives in a RAM filesystem, runs easily out of space and updates are lost during reboot.
Could you provide more info what you did?
it flickers and allows no interaction.
There seems to be a new Fedora default to very aggressively put the system sleep/hibernation mode, which cannot be switched off, at least not in the default system settings. Making Fedora 43 basically unusable.
Seems like you have completed an installation of Fedora 43. This is great news!
You can control the sleep in the power settings.
I just set to “never” sleep.