Re: old-school

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On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 18:41 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 12:49 -0800, Rickey Moore wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >         Rickey Moore wrote:
> >         > 
> >         > 
> >         
> >         If you want software from a different repository, it is as
> >         simple as 
> >         enabling the repository and getting a list of applications. It
> >         is 
> >         time for you to do some reading up on yum. It is allot
> >         different and 
> >         nicer than the old download, install what will install,
> >         download the 
> >         dependencies and install what will install ......
> > Sorry, what I failed to mention was that I'm using my roommate's
> > Windoz machine for file dnloads and <shudder> yahoo to get email. He's
> > got DSL, so we just added a network hub, and since Sprint uses pppoe
> > I'm wildly updating to just get the sucker to get the ipadd! ress's
> > and nameservers. Then I'm burning all these updates to CD's and
> > transporting them physically to my Fedora machine, kinda like all at
> > once! <smile> Trouble shooting with a shotgun... 
> > 
> > So, that's why I was looking for update instructions for humans to
> > read.  I know I'll just love yum once  I get to the net... I updated
> > KDE to use the new network manager and some pppoe deamons that I
> > found.  Uptodate used to make me crazy.  I do love Linux though, and
> > have great plans for using it.
> > 
> > Thanx for any considerations, Ric
> ----
> FC-4 represented a large jump in various items and the initial
> installation was pretty buggy. Consequently a lot of updates are
> required to make it function properly.
> 
> You really need internet access to get the updates installed as it would
> be a large project to get the updates installed by hand.
> 

Not to mention that they still need downloaded. :)

> Craig
> 
> 


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