F-10 installs -

[Bob Goodwin]

Fred Silsbee wrote:
>
> --- On Mon, 11/24/08, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
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>   
>> From: Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net>
>> Subject: F-10 installs -
>> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>> Date: Monday, November 24, 2008, 3:09 PM
>> In the near future I intend to replace Fedora 9 with 10.  My
>> bandwidth allotment is limited by the satellite provider I
>> use so I have been installing the "Live CD"
>> version and adding to that with yum.  I rarely use the Gnome
>> desktop beyond the initial install, replacing that with XFCE
>> which works best for me.  However it requires a lot of
>> initial configuration to create what I want.  That can take
>> a week or more to get everything "just right."
>>
>> But then I have a second computer to deal with, similar to
>> this one which will also need the same configuration.  I can
>> easily transfer files between them but it's still a lot
>> of work and takes nearly as much time as the first one. 
>> There's also a third ...
>>
>> It seems I must be doing something wrong?  Can anyone
>> suggest the optimum approach?  I ideally I should be able to
>> simply copy directories between boxes/users it seems.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Bob
>>
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>
> controversial (I saved the emails):
>
> supposed to work F9->F10
> (1) run preupdate
> (2) continue yum updates
> Bingo! you have F10 without downloading F10 DVD ISO (2-3 hours for me)
>
> be sure to save files first...sounds risky!
>   

Yes I am aware of preupdate, even downloaded it to this computer but 
that still wont get a new user set up with my configured XFCE desktop on 
a "new" computer I just built.  The new one has F-9 on it but I'm still 
looking for an easier way to set the user configuration.  I did a lot of 
work on it the other day manually and somehow it did not save.  I 
thought I checked the appropriate box to save the setup but on the next 
boot I was back to the default!  Needles to say I was discouraged and 
have been avoiding it.

Bob