FC1, yum dead, using synaptic

[Jeff Ratliff]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 11:21:55PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 19 July 2004 18:07, Jeff Ratliff wrote:
> >Personally I think FC2 would solve all your yum problems. It did
> >for me. It picks your mirror for you, and except when the servers
> >are really loaded it just works. I know there are probably good
> >reasons you want to stick with FC1, though.
> 
> It may well, but then I'd have to do an fsck and a mke3fs on about 
> 60GB of disks on this box, while leaving /root, /home and /usr/src 
> alone.  The last time I tangled with DD, it very carefully took notes 
> on what I wanted it to do, and then it re-arranged the partition 
> order vs names, and formatted the whole damned thing.  I was a week 
[snip]

I had the luxury of just installing FC2 on a spare partition on my
main box. I just moved a few config files over, copied stuff from
my /home directory and I was back in business. 
  Of course I con't have a very complicated setup, and I document 
every last change so it's easy to reproduce a configuration.

I've not used FC1 on that machine at all since I put FC2 on it. I 
installed FC3test1 over my FC1 partition to see what it would do
(it's running fine).  

> >> I'd also like to add livna if that wouldn't clash with freshrpms.
> >
> >Fedora.us and Livna go together. Livna and Freshrpms have been known
> >to clash.
> 
> Ok, I thought I recalled something like that, but there's another repo 
> that goes with freshrpms isn't there?  Or better yet, fedora 1 and 
> livna, but can I change horses in mid-stream w/o major headaches?
> 
Actually the info I gave came from the Fedora Multimedia HOWTO
<http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO/>

It's written by Eric Raymond, and I trust him. Have a look and 
it'll give you some background on what works tih what, and why. 
I believe Eric Raymond still lives in western Pennsylvania,
so he's almost your homeboy.   =)