Quoting "Toole, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Any one else tried fedora out? Comments?
Here's my experience with upgrading so far: I'm trying to do a dist-upgrade from RedHat 9.0 to Fedora Core 1 for 2 reasons: 1) I don't have easy physical access to the box so I'm working over ssh. 2) Even if I did go to the box, it is an old machine and it does not read burned CDs. It is a fairly minimalist installation as it just runs the dyndns client, sendmail for mail forwarding, and it is setup for ftp, but the ftp server is not running at the moment. I do have X on there, but no desktop environments of anything like that. The box has a small HD (about 1.5 GB I think) of which the OS takes up most of. The first meathod I tried was with apt. I downloaded the RPM for Fedora so it already came with the Fedora sources. I did an apt-get update which took about a minute to run, and then an apt-get dist-upgrade. After a minute or so it gave me a list of the packages it was going to upgrade/install/remove. The newly installed packages were going to take up about 100MB which was most of the space thart I had left on the HD. OK, so I whent into redhat-config-packages and got rid of some of the shit that I don't need. Of course I still had the problem that apt wanted to d/l ~300MB worth of RPMs and I don't have the space to accomodate that. I looked through the apt man page but I cannot find a way to get apt to delete packages as it goes (does anyone know how?). So my second idea was to try yum in the hopes that it would be a little smarter than apt. I downloaded the yum RPM and configured it for the Fedora source. I then did a yum upgrade. The first thing it did was download all the headers for the fedora RPMS. The yum website says this is a good thing because it speeds up the upgrades and allows rpm to handle the deps. Problem is it took about 12 hours to d/l all the headers (so much for fast). After it was done it exited with the error that redhat-config-securitylevel required lokkit. OK but I have lokkit already installed on the box, and yum didn't give me any information as to what version number it was looking for. So I uninstalled redhat-config- securitylevel and firstboot. Anyways to make a long story a little shorter, I ran yum again this afternoon, and it started downloading the rpms. However I suspect (seeing as it's not the brightest piece of software) that when I get home tonight it will have downloaded enough rpms to fill up the HD, and exit with an error. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know, as for yum it seems like crap to me, if I ever do get Fedora installed I will be sticking with apt or up2date. Jesse
