[wellylug] Fedora

[Bill Christiansen]

Thanks for the advice, I think my package database may have been
temporarally corrupted  as the terminal I was running the rpm command
in was hanging but it's OK again now. I got one new toy today a usb to
IDE adaptor which means I can now plug a dvdrom drive into my laptop.
I'm just waiting for an FC3 dvd I bought on trademe to arive. I'll
need to kick off the install with a floppy disk as this old laptop
can't boot usb devices.

On 4/19/05, Ian Sterling <xyverz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/18/05, Bill Christiansen <bill.christiansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > thanks Jethro, save target as and changing from the default text to
> > the wildcard worked but the rpm didn't install. Stiil trying to get
> > used to this RH stuff after months with Debian.
> 
> Yeah, RH does take some getting used to.  I recently had a server
> crash at home - the OS disk decided to eat itself.  It wasn't pretty.
> I ended up going with RH9 instead of going back to Debian because I
> have a HighPoint RocketRaid 454 card in there (uses the hpt374 driver)
> and I'm using hardware RAID5 on it.  I had a *LOT* of problems getting
> the driver built for Debian and decided to go with one of the distros
> that Highpoint had a driver packaged for.  RH9 was the most recent.  I
> got it up and running within about 20 minutes of OS installation.
> 
> I think it was actually a good choice now that YUM is available for
> RH9.  Now I'll have some of the ease of auto dep. checking with the
> install, and an easier way to update my system.  I'm a bit bummed that
> it's RH, but since I've been using RH at work for the last several
> months, I'm back into the swing of it.
> 
> Anyhow, just my 2c worth.  I would suggest installing FC3 over FC1
> though.  You can't easily upgrade using yum from FC1 to FC3.  It's a
> long, drawn-out, and painful process.  It's much easier to install
> from the CDs (or DVD if you have the DVD iso.)
> 
> --Ian...
> 
> 
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