Lorma Linux

[Jim Cornette]

Rodrigo Malara wrote:
> I would also thank you Jim for your valuable comments...
> I teach at a college and I want to try it out on our students lab.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Rodrigo Malara
> 
> Em Sáb, 2003-12-27 às 12:09, Ted escreveu:
> 
>>On Saturday 27 Dec 2003 5:20 pm, Jim Cornette wrote:
>>
>>>Sponger wrote:
>>>
>>>>Whats up with this?
>>>>
>>>>I just read on www.osnews.com that Lorma linux 4.0 is based off of
>>>>Fedora Core, I know this is legal, but I didn't think it would happen!
>>>
>>>Since it is Fedora continued (RH to Fedora), I dowloaded and am about to
>>>test it's installer and features.
>>>
>>>Thanks for the link. It seems to be only 1 CDROM big. I don't know if it
>>>will upgrade from Fedora. It didn't do too well with rpm upgrade or with
>>>up2date,from CDROM.
>>>
>>>Jim
>>
>>Hi Jim..
>>I have d/loaded it but not yet installed...Be interested to know
>>your thought's on it before I try it out....
> 

I'll let you know how it goes. The new download is only getting 14k/sec 
do it will be later on tonight, maybe tommorrow.

I learned something from the failed dl though. A good TOC and trunced 
rpm files can be copied onto a bootable cdrom. I'll post what I think of 
the distro, based on Fedora workings.

 From the RH9 CD, it seems that they include multimedia stuff. At least 
RealPlayer was included on the RH9 based distro that I downloaded earlier.

This dowload is from their site and being retrieved through gftp. It is 
being saved on an ext3 filesystem, instead of on a vfat USB accessed 
drive. Things should work out better with using better tools.

Here is the install log from my previous attempt. It got as far as 
redhat-logos, then bailed. The logos, amoung other files was trunced and 
unreadable.

Installing 490 packages

Installing desktop-backgrounds-basic-2.0-16.
Installing gal-0.24-2.
Installing gimp-data-extras-1.2.0-8.
Installing gnome-mime-data-2.4.0-2.
Installing hwdata-0.100-1.
Installing indexhtml-0.95-2.
Installing libgcc-3.3.2-1.
Installing mailcap-2.1.14-1.1.
Installing man-pages-1.60-4.
Installing openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.0-6.
Installing redhat-logos-1.1.12-1.


Jim