Major Fedora 10 Stability Issues

[killswitch]

Hey All,

I decided to download the Fedora 10 live CD and dual boot it on my desktop with Windows Vista, but I am having really weird stability issues.

Here's what is happening, in detail:

1. Boot up my computer with Live CD, brings up Fedora, login, no problems.

2. Before I install a Linux OS on my machine, I make sure it can do everything I need it to do, so before installing, I set the following up from the Live CD:

- Set up sudo
- set up rpm repositories
- set up yum (fastestmirror, presto)
- sudo yum install PackageKit
- set up nvidia card
- set up java plugin, adobe flash, alsa-oss (adjust sound levels)
- set up emerald, gparted, pdf viewer
- install Fedora OpenOffice core package from add/remove software

Everything sets-up fine, BUT:

3. At any given time (usually after about 3/4 of the way into setting it up), the system just completly crashes, and one or more the following happens:

- I lose all desktop icons, and both top and bottom gnome navigating bars, and the cursor turns into a little black and white clock, then the system stays unresponsive, never refreshes, and its just the desktop image with nothing else.

- I lose my sudo abilities, and my ability to login to terminal as "su" (if I recall, I get some sort of sequential error)

- Firefox will crash out of nowhere, and I am unable to open another browser again (when I click the icon, it shows that fedora is thinking, and it shows up on the bar at the bottom of the screen, then disappears in about 10 seconds.

Again, there doesn't seem to be a pattern to this. It can happen anytime, but usually happens towards the latter half of my setting up. The only thing I can think of is that there is a little security box that appears early on in the set-up telling me that I need to install the following security updates. I have no justification to blame this, but I always chose yes to update. Also, the security updates hold the yum lock for a very long time.

Does anyone have any of these issues, or have you experienced them in the past? I do like Fedora alot, but I can't run it like this.

[coopstah13]

You are running from a livecd, which means you are using a ramdisk. My guess is you are running out of memory when you are setting up and installing these things not on an actual hard disk, because you need the memory to run the applications and also memory to install them.

[killswitch]

I thought that might be the issue.

In that case, I will boot it up, and just set up the first few steps, and then just let it sit and see what happens.

I'll report back.

[reed9]

I don't believe changes you make to the live environment will persist after the harddrive install. You would generally need to set up your partitions, mount the root partition and chroot into it before making changes.

chroot(2): change root directory - Linux man page