In short: It was a non-experience because the RHEL 6 Beta 2 distribution is not installable…
[Update]It is not a anaconda bug, but a bug in a paravirt driver. On ESX installation runs smooth, expect a more detailed report in the next few days[/update]
While downloading the ISO, I was very curious about it and my nerves were all on edge, like a little boy waiting for Christmas.
Afterwards I tried to install it as a KVM guest on my Systems, on OpenSUSE 11.2 and Fedora 13. On both the installation failed. Depending on the size of the RAM is was failing before the actual installation begun (1GB), or it was hanging while the packages are being installed (2GB RAM).
Connected bugs: #610510, #610261, #610255
Because of the non-installation, I only have seen one progress since beta 1: The critical security hole in anaconda have been closed. In beta 1, during the installation there was a sshd running and everyone was able to login as root without authentication.
I hope Red Hat will release a corrected ISO in the next few days to allow us testing the beta2.
url-based kickstart worked for me on VMWare ESXi.
In meantime I installed it on ESX4. It is obviously a bug in one of the KVM related paravirt drivers.
From a server issue it looks good, but the use of the nouveau driver is a pain and has not been documented or implemented proprly, especially regarding multiple displays. we don’t use 3d but we do have systems with more than 2 displas in a single space. The noueau driver does not handle this neither do the tools to configure nouveau
I did not found any setroubleshootd init-script.
I assume that the selinux is not well implemented yet.
I tried RHEL6 Beta2 on a HP Blade server and the installation failed at different steps.
1. Sometimes the hard disk is not detected
2. Sometimes the installation is hang at Storage device type page
Tried installation with basic video driver too. But is not helpful