old-school
Tony Nelson
tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Wed Jan 11 02:27:01 UTC 2006
At 6:41 PM -0700 1/10/06, Craig White wrote:
>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.
There are the unofficial FC4 isos from <http://fedora.isphuset.no> , which
would save on the updating after installation. They're served via
Bittorrent, so if there aren't many using the torrent, they will be slow to
download.
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