Tho I've been current cooker all along (and consequently already
at 9.1 final), I did a fresh install today. Fortunately I saved
copies of pertinent adsl/eth0 related configs and a backup of my
/home/tom directory, among other stuff.
All'n all I was pleasantly surprised with the fresh install
(regular, or what use to be 'recommended'). Great job, better than
ever. Everything worked, just a coupl'a niggles and a potential real
pisser off'r.
o I again had to 'urpme alsa-utils' to prevent aplay from suckin on
the cpu (100%), and enable sound. Same thing happened after the
recent 'upgrade' with 9.1 final CD's. Onboard AC97, snd-via82xx
: VIA Technologies|VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio]. And I had to
run 'aumix' to move the sliders off -0-. Then Kmix was functional,
sound was fully restored.
o Tho eth0 worked, it spent _many_ seconds during boot being
enabled, finally "claiming" an address after tryin it several times.
This was soon fixed by moving in the saved copy of
/etc/sysconfig/network- scripts/ifcfg-eth0
The only difference between the '9.1 fresh install' file and the
saved ifcfg-eth0 file was one line. BOOTPROTO=static from the saved
file works, eth0 is just a split second pause during bootup.
BOOTPROTO=dhcp, from the 'fresh' install caused the long wait and
search. Connection is adsl, dynamic IP, auto DNS. (dsl line -> ATU-R,
'often referred to as a modem' -> pci NIC 'D-Link TX538')
o Now for the pisser. I had previously done an upgrade with the d/l
9.1 CD's, mainly to look at the installer. Everything was fine, no
problems. I like the new simplicity, look'n feel, and ease. Very
fortunately it's my habit to regularly backup my user dir (/tom) to a
storage partition, which I did just before I began todays fresh
install.
During the install I was presented with the options to format
partitions other than the preselected '/'. I also chose /boot, to
clean out a bunch of obsolete kernels. I was careful to make sure
that none of the (many) partitions including /home, were _not_
selected.
Still, on first boot, my 'old' /home/tom was wiped out, replaced
by the beginning default one. Easily fixed by overwriting with the
saved /tom dir. Could'a been a disaster tho.
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Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
