I just completed "yum upgrading" my Sony Picturebook (C1VFK with 660MHz Crusoe cpu and 128MB RAM) following the advice given in <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq>. [I edited the /etc/yum.repos.d/*.rep files supplied by fedora-release-4-2.noarch.rpm to use a local FC-4 site.] The upgrade took 26 hours, and installed 1423 packages, amounting to 1.1GB. There were no problems at all, except boredom. I had to take this route because anaconda bombed out when "Reading package information". I reported this to the anaconda bugzilla, but I might as well have written to President Bush. I've actually had very bad experience installing FC-4. Although I have managed to install it on my 4 computers, I had great difficulties on 3 of the 4 (as reported elsewhere), and had to follow unusual routes, such as the above. This doesn't seem to be a general view, but in my experience installing or upgrading Fedora is getting more and more difficult. I think this is due to a wrong approach on the part of the anaconda team, whose general reaction to problems seems to be "What do you expect with non-standard hardware?". [I don't think my hardware is particularly non-standard.] I wonder if the anaconda people ever look at Knoppix, to see why that gets the boot process right so much more often? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
