I appreciate all the info great stuff. Gonna give this install a whirl now. Thanks so much for the time.
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Ok final synopsis: Fedora 16 and 17 suck
All day wasted on this, kinda sorta, learned a few things about Unix and the filesystem but turns out it a bug causing the filechecking error, which seemed to start with Fedora 16. Currently typing this on my newly installed Fedora12 system
Set everything up the way I wanted /, /boot, swap and added a partition for /home all using ext4 type.
Now for tomorrows waste of time trying to upgrade from 12 to 17
Want to keep this ticket going cause I found many posts reguarding this issue but havent found one yet that resolved the issue to completion.