Gus Wirth wrote:
RBW wrote:
[snip]
Heck...
I was trying to get with the program, so to speak. My usual method is to
do what I used to call a "lobotomy upgrade", that is to save off the
personal/modified/specialized stuff blow the system away and install
from scratch.
I'd just come to the same conclusion after I noticed that a whole bunch
of packages are still fc4. My big issues are VMWare, the Haldaemon and
ndiswrappers for my WPC55AG wireless card. My other big issue is where I
put all the 3rd party apps etc. over time. I have learned to install
most everything to /home/userdir so eyballing what was before should be
OK. There is just something about the incrementalism of upgrading that
is uncomfortable even though it is fun (and no where near what the
masses would put up with).
For the backup, /home is obvious as is /etc the only other partition I
see as required is /opt where a few apps wanted to install. Am I missing
anything critical other than those?
I post what happens next...
Thanks for the tips!
VMware won't be a problem. Just be sure you save your license found in
~/.vmware and then reinstall from the VMware rpm. The hal daemon is
part of the distribution so I don't think anything needs to be done
there.
I did save that stuff off...
For ndiswrapper, the parts that need saving are the ndis INF and SYS
files from the M$ Windows drivers. carl and I just helped a guy get
ndiswrapper working with Puppy Linux on an old laptop with a cheap
Fry's Aironet card, so we could probably get yours up and running too.
I think I'll try MadWifi again now that I have a few days off. The
WPC55AG atheros based card that I have is listed as supported...
For non-packaged 3rd party apps, well... You're on your own :)
Yeah, this is the fun... I've been listing each app/package in a text
file for future reference...
I don't know how old your hard drive is, but this could be a good
excuse to buy a new one. I did that about six months ago and I got a
huge performance boost plus a lot quieter plus more than twice the
storage for about $130. The same drive sells for about $100 today. I
did the install on the new drive, then used a USB-IDE adapter (about
$15-$20, or I'll let you borrow mine) to connect the old drive and
copy my data over.
Thanks... I recently got the Seagate 500Gb firewire/USB drive so I saved
what I needed and did a clean install on the 40Gb I have, but the
quieter/performance boost is intereting. My 4yr-old 1.8Ghz Intel M4
Fujitsu Lifebook C2210 w/ 768(Max) RAM is still kicking...
Gus
After the FC6 "clean" install I hunted down Yumex, installed that and it
was a big help in resolving the USB/Firewire automount issue. When
automount didn't work I went hunting for info and the latest
LinuxGazette has a good article on the subject
(http://linuxgazette.net/133/TWDT.html#tag). I checked that things like
"lshal | grep gate" could actually see my Seagate ext. firewire drive
and it does. I also checked that DBUS and udev are running. The piece
says to " First, check to see that "hotplug" is installed on your
system." which "rpm -qa|grep hotplug" turned up nothing. Under Debian,
which the article referred to, it is a package but under FC6 there
doesn't appear to be any such thing. I did a search under Yumex and that
turned up "pam_usb-hotplug". I installed that rpm via Yumex and
USB/firewire devices get automatically recognized on attachment to the
system. Beyond the basic FC6 install that one item was what was missing
for me... A "rpm -qa|grep hotplug" now returns:
pam_usb-hotplug-0.3.3-6.fc6
Is there a CLI equivalent for the ability of Yumex to list all packages
either installed or not installed from the "repos" you have configured?
Next I am tracking down the proceedure for MadWifi and my Linksys
WPC55AG network card. The card is showing up to the system as "iwconfig"
indicates:
$ /sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
wifi0 no wireless extensions.
ath0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:17 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/94 Signal level=-95 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:26 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
I'll post what I find...
rbw
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