Chris Colohan said: > 1. Upgrading fails. At first, I figured I would try to upgrade from > FC1 to FC2. The upgrade projected an install time of over 2 hours! (By > comparison, a fresh install took 25 minutes.) It is not unusual for upgrades to take significally longer. > I then decided to wipe my FC1 partition clean, and do a fresh install. > It worked fine, until I rebooted.... > > 2. PCMCIA does not work. This is a known bug, and has been known for > quite some time! > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=116205) I am > curious -- does this bug affect all PCMCIA systems, or just the one that > I happen to have in my machine? Needless to say, the system is pretty > useless without PCMCIA, since this means I have no network connection... It works for me, though I have heard people with the same laptop (Latitude CPx) say it didn't work for them. > 4. up2date doesn't work. Frankly, I have never gotten up2date to work > once, on any version of Redhat. This version is prettier than most, > until it hangs during package downloading. If you can't find an existing bug report, make sure you include an strace of the process when you file one. > I am not doing anything > unusual -- just starting it up, and saying "yeah, upgrade everything > that is out of date". Most of my redhat running friends have never > gotten it to work either. Are we all on crack, or are we all missing > something obvious? Worksforme, though I generally skip the slow mirror issues by having a local mirror. -- William Hooper
