Fwd: a little fedora help

[Collins Richey]

Sorry, this went to Tim only, freakin' gmail (otherwise quite good),
sometimes directs a reply to only one of the original To: addresses.
Tim sent his reply addressed to me and the list, and of course I
failed to notice that gmail had dropped the ball!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 08:31:13 -0700
Subject: Re: a little fedora help
To: Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org>


On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 08:17:08 -0500, Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:
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> On 12/1/2004 11:06 PM, I believe that Collins Richey wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:51:01 -0700, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>rpm --import public.gpg.key
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> Did you download and use the public gpg key from the repository you're using
> or did you actually type "public.gpg.key?"
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Be patient, you're dealing with an amateur now.

Entered exactly as shown and requested by the error message <g>. Dumb,
I know, but I found nothing in the Release Notes, etc. to prepare me
for this condition.

Here are some more stupid (ignorant about Red#$@!ingHat procedures)
questions and comments:

1. I managed to update everything yum knew about by supressing the gpg
check - yeah, I know a security risk.

2. The GNOME desktop has a nice red circle with a ! (changes to a blue
circle with a checkmark later) near the date that prompts you to run
something called up2date which found 16 things to update even though I
had run yum update to update lots of stuff. This procedure prompted to
download some sort of a key, so maybe now the gpg stuff is cool?

3. What in #$@! is the difference between yum and up2date and why are
there two sources of updates? I tried looking at the Fedora
documentation about yum, but this hasn't been updated in a coon's age,
i.e. my yum.conf, etc., files do not match the documentation.

4. How does one change the hostname setup on a RedHat system? I'm
using dhcp for eth0, and it keeps generating a hostname dhcppc3
instead of my desired name richpc3. I can't even find a dhclient
config file.

5. I'm up on an ext3 system, since the Fedora installer offered no
opportunity to format the new system as xfs. This sucks, of course.
How do you xfs users get a Fedora xfs system? Clone to another
partition? This sucks, too. The system does, however, have xfs
support, and I can mount my gentoo system (xfs).

6. With those exceptions, FC3 (and even GNOME with it's lovely eye
candy) appears to be quite usable thus far. KDE and XFCE also run as
advertised. I'm just using GNOME since that seems to be the RH
preference.

--
 Collins


-- 
 Collins