At 6:41 PM -0700 1/10/06, 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. There are the unofficial FC4 isos from <http://fedora.isphuset.no> , which would save on the updating after installation. They're served via Bittorrent, so if there aren't many using the torrent, they will be slow to download. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
