The total restructuring of X in that sequence is a deal breaker. If you use
kde the change from kde3 to kde4 with F9 would get you. Even if you don't use
the graphical interfaces there are problems. I've had to keep a FC6
installation around to keep some legacy programs running with change in
Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 19:25 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
They work perfectly and the only thing which is pushing me
is the lack of SMART support
Compile from source...
But it's a kernel issue, IIRC.
Instead of running the distro with an unofficial kernel (or
an autocompiled
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:47:07 am Jussi Lehtola wrote:
This also means I'm almost not really upgrading anything.
FC5-CentOS5 is similar to FC5-F6
(ok, with some backports, I know)
Exactly, such as firefox, openoffice and so on.
(clip)
Also, remember that Fedora EPEL has quite a lot of
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:50:26 +1000
Anthony Shipman wrote:
What about multi-media? Are packages such as mplayer, mp3 and video codecs
etc
available or buildable for Centos5.3? I would use it as my desktop if so.
rpmforge
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Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 19:25:50 +0200,
Roberto Ragusa m...@robertoragusa.it wrote:
The system is on RAIDed disks, so I will disconnect one of them
as an easy rollback chance in case of unresolvable issues.
That's unlikely to work for you. See:
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 08:57:54 -0400,
Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote:
Since there is a general use for more ability to create custom raid
arrays, the ability to use an existing array would be useful. I find it
particularly vexing that whoever wrote the raid code did not understand
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 08:57:54 -0400,
Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote:
Since there is a general use for more ability to create custom raid
arrays, the ability to use an existing array would be useful. I find it
particularly vexing that whoever wrote the raid
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 13:11:53 -0400,
Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote:
The point is that since you have the problem which would be solved by
using existing raid arrays, and you have been trying without success to
get action as a bug for years, you might be the person to present
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
I have other Fedora things needing doing, so I am not going to spend my
limited time championing changes in raid 10 configruation restrictions
when I don't use it and don't know much about its details.
You have missed what I said twice, so let it go . I said you might
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 20:02:33 -0400,
Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote:
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
I have other Fedora things needing doing, so I am not going to spend my
limited time championing changes in raid 10 configruation restrictions
when I don't use it and don't know much about
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 19:25 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
They work perfectly and the only thing which is pushing me
is the lack of SMART support
Compile from source...
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On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 20:00 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
I don't really know what was wrong with OSS to begin with.
Two different things trying to use the same sound card at the same time.
Only one could, and the other failing to manage it could jam the sound
card so that nothing else could use
Jussi Lehtola wrote:
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 23:30 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
Because I have a couple of FC5 servers, and I could upgrade through
the odd releases 5-7-9-11.
It should be rather straightforward to upgrade them to CentOS 5.3, you
should be able to do it with yum. If they're
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 10:17 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
Jussi Lehtola wrote:
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 23:30 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
Because I have a couple of FC5 servers, and I could upgrade through
the odd releases 5-7-9-11.
It should be rather straightforward to upgrade them to
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 10:17 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
It is a little puzzling that when someone asks on a fedora ML how to
upgrade Fedora, the answer is often upgrade to CentOS instead.
It's common enough advice for servers, or other computers where you want
a long lifespan. Fedora needs
I think I'll move to CentOS. That sounds like a good move. :) Thanks for the
feedback.
I was wondering whether I can use yum directly? I'll look into it but if
anybody has done in in the past and/or is aware of the relevant
documentation, please let me know.
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On Fri, Jul 10,
Jussi Lehtola wrote:
The reason is that RHEL 5 is based on Fedora 6, so the upgrade should
work out smoothly.
This also means I'm almost not really upgrading anything.
FC5-CentOS5 is similar to FC5-F6
(ok, with some backports, I know)
Also if you haven't updated the machine so far, it's
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 19:25:50 +0200,
Roberto Ragusa m...@robertoragusa.it wrote:
The system is on RAIDed disks, so I will disconnect one of them
as an easy rollback chance in case of unresolvable issues.
That's unlikely to work for you. See:
Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 20:00 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
I don't really know what was wrong with OSS to begin with.
Two different things trying to use the same sound card at the same time.
Only one could, and the other failing to manage it could jam the sound
card so that nothing
Roberto Ragusa wrote:
Jussi Lehtola wrote:
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 23:30 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
Because I have a couple of FC5 servers, and I could upgrade through
the odd releases 5-7-9-11.
It should be rather straightforward to upgrade them to CentOS 5.3, you
should be able to do it
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Excalibur Xcalibur wrote:
Thanks for the response people. I thought you guys would say that and I
was hoping that there would be a clean solution. There are too many
customizations for me to perform a clean install at this point.. I think
that I'll leave it as it is!
Well,
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 19:25 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
Jussi Lehtola wrote:
The reason is that RHEL 5 is based on Fedora 6, so the upgrade should
work out smoothly.
This also means I'm almost not really upgrading anything.
FC5-CentOS5 is similar to FC5-F6
(ok, with some backports, I
Bill Davidsen wrote:
That sounds just right. PA doesn't seem to do a thing for me when
starting multiple VMs, the first one appears to grab sound and the rest
get errors. And multiple users (or processes running as such) don't seem
to work well, and as for line/mic input, I still run an FC6
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 19:25:50 +0200,
Roberto Ragusa m...@robertoragusa.it wrote:
The system is on RAIDed disks, so I will disconnect one of them
as an easy rollback chance in case of unresolvable issues.
That's unlikely to work for you. See:
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Well, you could try upgrading it step by step, like FC6-F8-F10 and then to
F12 when it comes out. Skipping more than one release at a time isn't really
tested or supported, so it can cause problems. But keeping the ancient
release forever isn't a solution either.
Are
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 23:30 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
Are you saying that skipping one release is supported? (that is, is it
supposed
to work?)
The official policy is that only upgrades F(N-1) - F(N) works, but I
yum updated a dozen F8 boxes to F10 some months ago.
Because I have a
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Bill Davidsendavid...@tmr.com wrote:
- /etc/inittab has been replace with a complex scheme
- default simple functional networking has been replaced with NetMangler
- simple functional sound has been replaced with PulseAudio and you can use
up
to five volume
On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:30:05 +0200
Roberto Ragusa m...@robertoragusa.it wrote:
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Well, you could try upgrading it step by step, like FC6-F8-F10 and then
to
F12 when it comes out. Skipping more than one release at a time isn't
really
tested or supported, so it
Dear All, I've an old server running FC6. Is there a neat way to
upgrade (Not clean install) from FC6 to FC11 without messing up things and
keeping my settings and data?
Thanks.
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On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 12:11 -0400, Excalibur Xcalibur wrote:
Dear All,
I've an old server running FC6. Is there a neat way to
upgrade (Not clean install) from FC6 to FC11 without messing up things
and keeping my settings and data?
make a very good back up of the settings and
Excalibur Xcalibur wrote:
Dear All,
I've an old server running FC6. Is there a neat way to
upgrade (Not clean install) from FC6 to FC11 without messing up things
and keeping my settings and data?
Thanks.
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Dear Peter Excalibur,
If you want to upgrade from F6
Thanks for the response people. I thought you guys would say that and I was
hoping that there would be a clean solution. There are too many
customizations for me to perform a clean install at this point.. I think
that I'll leave it as it is!
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On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:00 PM,
couple of problems that i ran into with moving an F8 box to F11...
take a backup of your ldap database so you can restore it as they are
not compatible db versions..
similarly with postgres data... take a snapshot so that it can be
imported into the newer version as it cannot read an the
Excalibur Xcalibur wrote:
Thanks for the response people. I thought you guys would say that and I
was hoping that there would be a clean solution. There are too many
customizations for me to perform a clean install at this point.. I think
that I'll leave it as it is!
I have a similar upgrade
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Excalibur
Xcaliburexcalibur.xcali...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the response people. I thought you guys would say that and I was
hoping that there would be a clean solution. There are too many
customizations for me to perform a clean install at this point.. I
Excalibur Xcalibur wrote:
Thanks for the response people. I thought you guys would say that and I
was hoping that there would be a clean solution. There are too many
customizations for me to perform a clean install at this point.. I think
that I'll leave it as it is!
Well, you could try
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