My #1 machine has F10 on one hard drive, and XPPro/SP2 on the other. I very seldom boot the XP drive, and then only to get certain proprietary map (mostly topo map) software to interface with my GPSs, and to transfer data back and forth. Finally -- after ten years of eager waiting -- I can now do that, using wine-1.1.23-1.fc10.i386 and two of the four brands of proprietary software I have. (Garmin's and Maptech's work; DeLorme's and Topo.com's do not.) I don't really know how #1 got the capability. All four of my GPSs are from Garmin, and one day during a yum update, I noticed an rpm being installed that included the string "garmin" in its name. I jumped with joy, tried an install of Garmin map software, and it "just worked." On this machine, that is. All my others are already running F11, and I've been having poor luck with my attempts to duplicate the capability on any of them. I've called up PackageKit, first to search and destroy wine; then to search and install rpms containing "gps" or "garmin"; then to re-install wine. Then I've tried a/o am still trying to install Garmin's TopoUSA2008, without success so far ... So I'm looking at two opposite projects. If/when I can count on doing the transfers with Fedora/Wine, I will take gleeful delight in having a clean (i.e., M$-free) house again -- and, of course, also in getting another 75 GB of routinely available storage on machine #1 -- by wiping the XP drive and putting F11 on both. If I get a success or two with the map software, I'll want to be sure the upgrade takes over the whole second hard drive (the one currently available for XP). If I get flat and repeated failures, I'll want the opposite -- to be sure upgrading F10 does not touch the XP drive. So far, I've had better success with preupgrade than with an F11 DVD -- but always on single-boot machines. And the partitioner in anaconda seems to be particularly fragile at present. Which upgrade is to be preferred in each case -- preupgrade, or DVD?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
