Problems installing new fedore (LiveUSB)

Hi,

Having successfully used Fedora 10 XFCE. I downloaded the Fedora 11 version. Transferred it to USB stick and booted from there. Does not accept a tap on the mouse pad as a click. Carried out the install using the left bar to mouse click. Also on booting from the hard drive get a message about cannot find the ip address of the mchine so XFCE may not work corretly.

Any ideas?

Roland

 

To enable tapping:

Code:

sudo yum install gsynaptics
gsynaptics

 

Thanks for that. Unfortunately does not seem to persist after a restart.

Roland

 

When you created your live USB stick, did you include a persistent overlay (not just a persistent home)? If so, the change should persist. If not, it's probably time to file a bug against livecd-iso-to-disk

 

Hi,

Received a new 16GB Aspire One last week and was OK with Linpus with just a few niggles - not that keen on the default mail app so I downloaded Thunderbird but that didn't work as well as it should + problems trying to get a bluetooth dongle up and running. Having heard good things about Fedora 11 I downloaded the i686 XFCE Live CD, put it on a USB stick and gave it a try.

Everything worked a treat - wireless, bluetooth dongle, etc so I clicked on Install to Hard Disk: nothing, no reaction, no disk activity ...

Opened up a terminal and entered /usr/bin/liveinst :

umount: /media/*: not found
12:47:07 Starting graphical installation...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/anaconda", line 876, in <module>
anaconda.id = instClass.installDataClass(anaconda, extraModules,
opts.display_mode, anaconda.backend)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/instdata.py", line 300, in __init__
self.reset()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/instdata.py", line 65, in reset
self.network = network.Network()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/network.py", line 343, in __init__
available_devices = self.available()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/network.py", line 391, in available
hwaddr = isys.getMacAddress(dev)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 583, in getMacAddress
device_macaddr = device_props_iface.Get(NM_MANAGER_IFACE,
"HwAddress")
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in
__call__
**keywords)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 630,
in call_blocking
message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs:
No such property HwAddress
liveuser@localhost ~]$

It seems Anaconda, the installer isn't happy. If I connect up a USB optical drive the result's the same - altho' the USB and CD both come from the same downloaded image so if there's a an error in Anaconda it would affect both. I'll download the full DVD tomorrow when I get access to a fast connection and give that a try. If anyone has a suggestion or explanation what's going on I'd be grateful.

Regards,

Bob

 

Code:

# cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ 

and edit it to suit with the synaptics options you require, eg the line

Code:

<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>

enables tap to click. man gsynaptics and man synclient are your friends for finding the available options