[CLUE-Tech] Getting There With FC2

[mike havlicek]

I don't know what is going on with FC3, but the only
differences I am aware of between FC2 and FC1 and many
other linux dists is the 2.4 versus 2.6 kernel. In
fact I was just reading today that the slackware 10.x
uses 2.4 kernel for install stability but provides the
option to install a 2.6 strain.

There have been many messages in this thread and I
have not had a chance to read them all.

I can tell you that I have experienced a few weird
things since the 2.6 kernel was put into the RedHat
based distros....


First if you check dmesg you will find a locales
error.

Second ... one that affects me ... is that the LVM
support has greatly changed ... (A nice way of saying
that it is hard to upgrade an LVM based system from
2.4 to 2.6)

The only other crazy thing that I am affected by is
the nfs-utils in FC2 .... I don't know what it likes
to play with but it won't play with my AIX, Solaris9,
RedHat9 ... out of the box ... I Revert to the
nfs-utils from FC1 and all is OK .... 


-Mike 

PS: Sorry if I revamped given not reading the tons of
posts on this matter.
--- "Jed S. Baer" <thag at frii.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 21:47:47 -0700
> "Jed S. Baer" <thag at frii.com> wrote:
> 
> > I've started the process of seeing whether I can
> get Fedora to what is,
> > for me, a usable state.
> 
> Hmmm, is it OK to hijack a thread if it's one I
> created? :)
> 
> The two major things I need to do before I consider
> FC3 "usable" are to
> get Fvwm installed (although KDE is growing on me),
> and figure out how the
> new "dev" system works.
> 
> Oh, and getting Vim to behave. (but that's really a
> whole 'nother thread)
> 
> The obvious reason why I need to get the "dev" (or
> is it udev now?) system
> works is that I have discovered that symbolic links
> in /dev don't persist
> across reboots.
> 
> In order to avoid having the new system become the
> tangled hairball of
> stuff in various places which my current install
> resembles, what I plan to
> do is make RPM files of everything I build from
> source. The checkinstall
> package does a fair job of that, but it barfs on
> occasion, and so I need
> to learn a reliable method for packaging my warez.
> 
> Any good online resources for RPM building, and the
> new /dev stuff would
> be appreciated.
> 
> jed
> -- 
> http://s88369986.onlinehome.us/freedomsight/
> 
> ... it is poor civic hygiene to install technologies
> that could someday
> facilitate a police state. -- Bruce Schneier
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