On Mon, 29 May 2006 09:39:35 -0700 Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 11:16 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 09:07, Tim wrote: > > > > > > Is it better to install a complete version of Fedora 5 ( any > > > > recommendation ? ) ( i.e. the pc has got a DVD rewriter – I am not > > > > sure about conversion from ISO using cdwriter – any advice ? ) > > > > > > Since you said you're new to this, I'd try FC4 (as a clean install, not > > > trying to update FC3 to FC4). It's been out long enough for many bugs > > > to have been resolved, and is still being kept up to date. > > > > > > FC5 is new, has one or two quite painful bugs, and is probably best > > > tackled by someone familiar with installing Fedora against a few > > > hurdles, or doesn't mind a challenge straight away. > > > > The bugs in FC5 involve specific hardware so I'd recommend the > > opposite approach. Start with FC5 and use FC4 only as plan B > > in the unlikely event that you have problems on your hardware. > > FC5 has newer versions of applications and will be supported > > longer. In either case, do a 'yum update' immediately after > > the install and frequently afterwords to stay up to date. > ---- > not only would I agree with Les, I just installed FC-5 on Saturday and > I'm very impressed. > > Craig I have FC5 on several different computers and they all went well, except one, the CDROM was so slow on read it took 3 hours to do the install!!! LOL But once it was in it ran fine. I agree, before setting anything up do a yum -y update. Be prepared it will take a bit, but it should be worth it in the long run. Will
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