ok, laptops loaded up and ready for testing

[David]

On 3/5/2009 7:55 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   here's the current situation if anyone wants to suggest tests.  i
> have my two gateway MX7120s installed with fedora 11 alpha -- one with
> i386, the other with x86_64 -- virtually identically (about 1550
> packages on each).

>   the first difference is that, at the end of the install, when i
> rebooted, the i386 install rebooted cleanly while the x86_64 install
> flashed a screenful of kernel diagnostics on its way down, but it
> still booted cleanly coming back up again.  not sure what that was all
> about.

>   at this point, before i do *anything*, should i take note of the
> current setup in any way?  suggestions?  my first step would be to
> update the yum/rpm packages but, to do that, i would first update
> "fontpackages-filesystem" since its original packaging conflicted with
> "rpm-build" which i installed, so my proposed first step would be:

>   # yum update fontpackages-filesystem
>   # yum update rpm\*
>   # yum update yum

> does that make sense?  but even before i do that, i'm still open to
> what i should record in terms of current config.

>   thoughts?

Do I understand correctly that these are *not* updated to current
Rawhide yet?

If so you would probably need to do the x86 and x86_64 updates in small
stages. Rawhide x86 was rebuild from i386 to i586 recently so I would
think that most, if not *all*, of the packages installed would be an
'update' on the x86 install.

That would hold true for the x86_64 install too for the x86 packages
installed there.

Good luck.
-- 


  David