old-school

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 12:49 -0800, Rickey Moore wrote:
> 
> 
> Robin Laing <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:
>         Rickey Moore wrote:
>         > 
>         > 
>         
>         If you want software from a different repository, it is as
>         simple as 
>         enabling the repository and getting a list of applications. It
>         is 
>         time for you to do some reading up on yum. It is allot
>         different and 
>         nicer than the old download, install what will install,
>         download the 
>         dependencies and install what will install ......
> Sorry, what I failed to mention was that I'm using my roommate's
> Windoz machine for file dnloads and <shudder> yahoo to get email. He's
> got DSL, so we just added a network hub, and since Sprint uses pppoe
> I'm wildly updating to just get the sucker to get the ipadd! ress's
> and nameservers. Then I'm burning all these updates to CD's and
> transporting them physically to my Fedora machine, kinda like all at
> once! <smile> Trouble shooting with a shotgun... 
> 
> So, that's why I was looking for update instructions for humans to
> read.  I know I'll just love yum once  I get to the net... I updated
> KDE to use the new network manager and some pppoe deamons that I
> found.  Uptodate used to make me crazy.  I do love Linux though, and
> have great plans for using it.
> 
> Thanx for any considerations, Ric
----
FC-4 represented a large jump in various items and the initial
installation was pretty buggy. Consequently a lot of updates are
required to make it function properly.

You really need internet access to get the updates installed as it would
be a large project to get the updates installed by hand.

Craig