On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 11:21:55PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 19 July 2004 18:07, Jeff Ratliff wrote: > >Personally I think FC2 would solve all your yum problems. It did > >for me. It picks your mirror for you, and except when the servers > >are really loaded it just works. I know there are probably good > >reasons you want to stick with FC1, though. > > It may well, but then I'd have to do an fsck and a mke3fs on about > 60GB of disks on this box, while leaving /root, /home and /usr/src > alone. The last time I tangled with DD, it very carefully took notes > on what I wanted it to do, and then it re-arranged the partition > order vs names, and formatted the whole damned thing. I was a week [snip] I had the luxury of just installing FC2 on a spare partition on my main box. I just moved a few config files over, copied stuff from my /home directory and I was back in business. Of course I con't have a very complicated setup, and I document every last change so it's easy to reproduce a configuration. I've not used FC1 on that machine at all since I put FC2 on it. I installed FC3test1 over my FC1 partition to see what it would do (it's running fine). > >> I'd also like to add livna if that wouldn't clash with freshrpms. > > > >Fedora.us and Livna go together. Livna and Freshrpms have been known > >to clash. > > Ok, I thought I recalled something like that, but there's another repo > that goes with freshrpms isn't there? Or better yet, fedora 1 and > livna, but can I change horses in mid-stream w/o major headaches? > Actually the info I gave came from the Fedora Multimedia HOWTO <http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO/> It's written by Eric Raymond, and I trust him. Have a look and it'll give you some background on what works tih what, and why. I believe Eric Raymond still lives in western Pennsylvania, so he's almost your homeboy. =)
