WARNING:DO NOT UPGRADE TO CORE 4

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu Jul 14 19:23:21 UTC 2005


On Thursday 14 July 2005 14:48, Les Mikesell wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 10:04, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> And, what happened to the boot option 'linux single' which used to
>> mount everything in r/w & drop you to a shell?
>
>It still works. When you used lilo to boot, you could type that
>at the boot prompt.  With grub you just have to edit the kernel
>line before booting and add the 'single' option.
>
Which is finally what I did.

>> Seriously folks, stuff like this should never be allowed out the
>> door, and we need an FC4-1 release that fixes whatever the hell is
>> screwing this up.
>
>The Fedora project has never bothered to rebuild the isos for a
>released version.  Usually the k12ltp project will release a
>version that adds some new things and include the FC updates up
>to that point.  Installing from their isos can save a lot of
>time adding updates even if you don't include their added packages.
>They appear to be a few days from a release based on FC4.
>Their web pages tend to be out of date but you can find the
>releases here:
>ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/
>when the files under 4.4.0/isos stop having -pre in the names it
>will be the released version.

Bookmarked, thanks.
>
>--
>  Les Mikesell
>   lesmikesell at gmail.com

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