Fwd: a little fedora help

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Collins Richey wrote:
> 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.

up2date is redhat's official update tool, and only checks official Fedora
RPMs, from Fedora repositories for updates.  yum does what up2date does,
plus can be used for unofficial Fedora repositories with additional
packages not included in Fedora proper.

> 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.

/etc/sysconfig/network

> 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.

Sure it does.  WHen installing you must type:
linux xfs
and then xfs is an option.

> 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).

See above.



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