I was installing Fedora 16 on a fairly new HP elitebook laptop. This laptop had never been setup before. A clean slate. HP setup screens are not the typical BIOS setup that most manufacturers use. It is a major pain to use IMHO. It does allow for much control over hardware/firmware. I think HP may call it simple but I think it mostly stinks. Dealing with HP setup was an annoyance, but not the main issue.
As set up progressed, there is a screen where you can choose additional Fedora Repositories. I want to select these. First you config the network. That was easy. Next it connects and downloads the repository metadata. This is where the problem happens. The connection is made, stuff is downloaded, then a cryptic error message stating that a network error has occurred. No way to debug! After much googling, network sniffing, etc. I finally found the problem. The TIME WAS NOT SET ON THE SYSTEM CLOCK! This made the signature checks on the repository fail! Leading to the bad and misleading error message. Remember the little annoyance with setup! So before you begin ANY OS install, check your system time in the BIOS first. This will save a lot of time and aggravation.
After all that, I got Fedora 16 installed, however the HP will not recognize the system as bootable! I fell back to Fedora 15, That installs and works just fine, but 16 not so much. 15 is good enough for my needs, so I did not run down the problems with Fedora 16.
I will also avoid HP products in the future.
Tioraidh!
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