FC2 T1 Installation notes: xorg, kernel 2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1, nVidia TNT

[Fritz Elfert]

Did just the same but left out step 7 as i expected the xorg packages
having an Obsoletes: XFree86... tag - worked nice without loosing 
gnome/kde/whatever.

On Wednesday 24 March 2004 23:11, Timothy Sandel wrote:
> "yum remove XFree86*" deleted gnome as well.  I guess I should have have
> played around with --exclude's but I really wanted XFree to be GONE so I
> let yum do it's thing.
>
> Timothy
>
> On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 15:55, André S. wrote:
> > why "10. yum install gnome*" ??
> > downgrade??
> >
> > Em Qua, 2004-03-24 às 15:02 -0600, Timothy Sandel escreveu:
> > > Here's my story on installation...
> > >
> > > 1. Signed up for the fedora-test-list and tracked the list for a couple
> > > of days to get a feel for what I was up against.
> > > 2. Installed FC1 on my Dell Optiplex.
> > > 3. Copied the four ISO's for FC2-T1 to the hard drive (hda2).
> > > 4. Did a cdrom boot from the FC2-T1 iso and performed a HD drive
> > > installation.
> > > 5. Custom install of about 3gb of the software.
> > > 6. Changed yum.conf to point to a lesser used mirror.
> > > 7. yum remove XFree86*
> > > 8. yum install xorg*
> > > 9. Changed the XF86Config to use the nv driver.  I have an ATI Mach64
> > > video built-in on my Dell and an nvidia tnt add-on card.
> > > 10. yum install gnome*
> > > 11. yum update kernel*
> > > 12. Made the mouse0 change to /dev/mouse and XF86Config suggested here
> > > on the list as the mouse quit working.
> > >
> > > Results:
> > > Working FC2-T1 with xorg X11 (1600x1200 @ 24bit), Gnome, kernel
> > > 2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1.
> > >
> > > Great work folks!  Really fairly painless for TEST linux.  Now off to
> > > start playing with some of those apps.
> > >
> > > timothy at titan.stcl.edu
> > >
> > >
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