Rawhide install

[Mike Chambers]

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 21:29 +0000, Will Woods wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 15:43 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > As of 4/24 the install went just fine, via NFS.
> > 
> > The only thing that threw me off (and maybe that was because I wasn't
> > paying attention), was that portmap wasn't included (had to make sure
> > rpcbind service was on) to initiate NFS (as client).
> 
> rpcbind lives in its own package now (called, fittingly, rpcbind) - is
> that what confused you? NFS works fine for me.

Yes, and after starting taht service, was able to mount my nfs
partitions.

> 
> > I also noticed (guess again wasn't paying attention) that the theme/icon
> > theme was changed to Mist?  If so, it seems the icons aren't all there
> > or need some work.  I liked echo better, so I went with the Fedora theme
> > and echo icons.
> 
> Yes, the default icon theme has been changed to Mist. The fedora-art
> folks determined that Echo wasn't going to make it in time, so this was
> their fallback plan.
> 
> The Fedora theme is supposed to fall back to the Clearlooks icon when
> there isn't a Mist one, but it's not doing that yet. Maybe that's why it
> seems like there's icons missing?

Not sure if they were missing, or if there was just not an icon from
that theme for a few programs? Gnome-terminal, file browser, and xchat
programs were 3 off top of my head that had generic (gnome?) icons.

> Thanks! Today's rawhide is essentially the same as F7Test4, so it's good
> to hear some positive results coming already.
> 
> Less than 1 month until F7 final. Battle stations!

Can't wait, although I run rawhide almost exclusive most of the time,
cept maybe right after a release.  Anyway, will continue to test in
whatever way I can (used to be a beta program tester back in the day :P)

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

"Sex is like air, it's not important unless your not getting any!"