Brittany wrote:
I had downloaded the FC2 binary from http://fedora.linux.duke.edu/( theIf you downloaded the FC2 binary, you do have the first test binary of FC2 and is likely to say until FC2 gets much closer to being official. This also means that you are dealing with a 2.6 kernel "without a net". There's no stable 2.4 kernel and most everything about the FC2 setup is alpha and highly prone to breaking. If you truly want to dive headlong programming/configuring/editing your OS while knowing it could break at any time, then stay with it. I know for myself that's not an option at this time (even as a second OS), therefore I'm sticking with FC1 and I would suggest that you do the same until you get acclimated to Linux (at least until you feel comfortable and adventurous).
top files) and when i try to install it it said "Fedora Core 1" SO i
really don't know what version i have.
Go back to the same site and download the "yarrow-binary-i386-iso.torrent", which would be the official and "stable" FC1. Then get yourself over to "http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/"; and follow the direction for downloading and installing APT and SYNAPTIC which will make your life a whole lot easier than trying to use the installed "up2date" program for your updates. Believe me, I've rebuilt RPMs from source, tarballs(.tar is the equivalent of .zip in the Linux world) and even created RPMs from scratch. This is by far the easiest way for a newcomer to keep his or her system "up-to-date".
