What's Happening With Fedora Core 4 Test 1?

Robert L Cochran cochranb at speakeasy.net
Mon Mar 21 16:06:49 UTC 2005


Fred New wrote:

>On 21. märts 2005. a. 14:35, Robert L Cochran wrote:
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>>I was on a business trip when Fedora Core 4 Test 1 was released. I 
>>disabled my mail delivery from this list during that time. Is there 
>>anything I need to know about installing this release and 
>>getting it to 
>>work? I'm downloading the x86_64 version. Any pitfalls?
>>
>>Thanks
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>I'm not up on the x86_64 news, but I installed x86 yesterday.
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>First, the NFS and hard disk installations don't work because
>the installer doesn't mount the iso files correctly.
>
>After installing, you will probably need to manually install
>sqlite and update yum.  By "manually", I mean you can't use yum;
>download from the development directory and install using rpm
>commands.
>
>And then there is a problem with gdm that causes syslogd to
>go crazy and slows down your system a lot. So gdm should be
>the next thing you update.
>
>After that, your system will work a lot better and you can
>update the rest of your packages - several hundred megabytes
>worth.  (I wish I had updated gdm before updating the rest
>of my packages; it was slooooow.)
>
>Fred
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Thanks, this is the sort of heads up I am looking for. I'll burn all 5 
CDs since NFS installs are broken. I'll be sure to update gdm right away.

Bob




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