Alex White wrote:
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 15:43:42 -0800 (PST)
"Dean S. Messing" <deanm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> took out a #2 pencil and
scribbled:
David Boles wrote:
Dean S. Messing wrote:
I just freshly installed F8 (February respin) and during
installation I added & subtracted the packages/package groups
I wanted during the package choosing phase. Unfortunately,
some package conflict caused the installer to barf and exit
prematurely.
So I tried to install but just installed the default system.
(I.e., I took the default package choices.)
Now I'd like to go back and use the same interface to (again)
choose the packages I want and "upgrade" the system. However
the installer just skips the "package choosing" phase when I
choose "upgrade" on the existing system.
Is there a way to get the installer to do what I want?
Why don't you use the 'Install & Remove Software' option from
the menu for this?
I'm not seeing this option.
Maybe more detail is needed.
I did a network install by booting off a Rescue DVD.
The options I see when it comes up are:
Install or upgrade an existing system
Install or upgrade an existing system (text mode)
Rescue installed system
Boot from local drive
Memory test
"Install & Remove Software" does not ever appear (or I missed it)
when I choose the 1st option above. At some point, after
answering several questions, entering the NFS server and
directory, and a _long_ wait, the installer brings up a nice
graphical interface which gives me two Radio Buttons:
Install Fedora
Upgrade an Existing installation
If I choose the first, it leads to stuff that looks like it will
overwrite the existing (freshly installed) system.
Here's a blow-by-blow if I choose the second option:
I get two more options:
Upgrade Fedora Core 5 (/dev/sda1)
Upgrade Fedora 8 (/dev/sdb9)
I choose the 2nd, which is the freshly installed system to that I
want to add/subtract packages using the installer's interface
I now get 3 more Radio Buttons:
Update Boot loader configuration
Skip boot loader updating
Create New Bootloader configuration
I choose the 2nd and a popup says:
Retrieving Installation Information
Then it says "Click next to begin upgrade of Fedora"
Then another Popup appears for about 1 microsecond :-) followed
by another which says
Performing post upgrade configuration
Then I get:
Congratuations, the installation is complete.
Press the "Reboot" button to reboot your system.
Something of a let-down, I must say.
What am I doing wrong?
Dean
I believe you're looking in the wrong place. It's not during
install that you want to do this. You want to Add and Remove
Software using /usr/bin/pirut
There should be a menu entry for it, but you can also call it from
the cli. pirut is a GUI app.
HTH,
Alex White
Hi Alex. What you said here is true. But this person is obviously a Newbie
with Linux. So I think that you should keep all of the complicated 'little
tricks' for later. What do you think?
--
David
