A quick update on my upgrade delimna.
I burned to CDs yesterday - one for kubuntu 6.1 and one for ubuntu 6.1. I tested the kubuntu CD at work by installing it on one of my spare workstations. Worked flawlessly.
Took CDs home. Tarred and gzipped the home directory on my Linux workstation. Copied those files to my laptop. Slapped the CD in the CD drive and restarted. Nothing - wouldn't boot (which was odd because this same CD worked while I was at work). Powered off the workstation and tried again - still wouldn't boot from CD. Powered down and reviewed the BIOS - first boot option was CD. Tried again - no luck.
So, since the last time I had to install an OS on this workstation, my CD drive has died. Now I've got to scrounge one up and install it.
In the meantime, I attempted to upgrade FC4 to FC5 using yum. Everything was going well until it got stuck because it had exhausted all available mirrors or something (forgot to right to error message down - will check it again when I get home).
Thanks for all the suggestions. I think I will stay with ubuntu because it's really for my daughter, who is an artist, not a techie.
Later,
Jon
--- Jonathan Hutchins hutchins@tarcanfel.org wrote:
On Friday 05 January 2007 09:12, Jared wrote:
Until I met Gentoo. Doing the simplest upgrade of
Apache+PHP, I
spent hours HOURS learning about the emerge system
because
PHP is considered experimental and recent releases
are all kinds
of INTENTIONALLY complicated, in order to keep
newbies from
breaking their system by installing PHP.
The nice thing about Mandriva (and Fedora for that matter) is that installing PHP doesn't break anything. Even if you're a newbie. It just works. _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
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