FC2 on Intel 440GX (was FC1 on Intel 440GX)

[Florin Andrei]

On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 06:59, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote:
> I was just wondering if the kind individuals that put together the 440GX
> boot disk for FC/1 would consider doing one for FC/2 - or provide the
> build instructions so that one can recreate a new one for FC/2. Any
> word?

If i had to rebuild the installer boot disk again for FC2 i'd be pissed.
:-)

Luckily, all you have to do is enter "linux acpi=force" at the FC2
installer boot prompt.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107880

> I used yum to upgrade the 440GX box FROM FC/1 TO FC/2 but I will run

Don't upgrade, but backup/reinstall. It's your only chance to clean up
the cruft.

Also, just look at the mailing list archives and see all those horror
stories from people who choose to upgrade instead of doing a clean
reinstall. Like: "i upgraded to FC2, and now my Gnome menus are all
mangled". Doh, you reap what you sow. ;-)

Upgrade seems to be used as the lazy one's path, instead of being a
last-chance method (when, for really _objective_ reasons, backup and
reinstall from scratch is impossible).
The only things that i carry over from one version to another,
unchanged, are a few application's directories (Evolution) and files
(Mozilla bookmarks, Gaim nicknames caches), etc. The rest gets rebuilt
from scratch.

In an ideal world (people knowing what they do, etc.), upgrade would be
used like 100 times less often than it is now.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/