While upgrading my various Linux boxes to Fedora Core 1, I discovered that A> From Red Hat 7 to FC1, linuxconf must be first removed, otherwise the installer (anaconda) will harmlessly but frustratingly exit abnormally. This was discovered just after FC1 went "gold." This is not an issue for RH 8 and 9
B> If you've been using up2date, you can release a few megs of disc space -- perhaps needed for install on old machines with the formerly massive giant 2 to 4 GB hard drives The magic to do these things is as follows: -----Forwarded Message----- > > as root: > rpm --noscripts -e $(rpm -qa | grep linuxconf) > rm -f /var/spool/up2date/*.rpm > > michaelkjohnson > > "Ever wonder why the SAME PEOPLE make up ALL the conspiracy theories?" >
