Fwd: a little fedora help

Thu Dec 2 07:36:16 PST 2004

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Collins Richey wrote:
| 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:
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|>>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
|>>>
|
|
|>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.

rpm --import http://fedora.redhat.com/about/security/4F2A6FD2.txt

| 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?

Yep.

| 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.

Try the following:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=20

[base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/

[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/

#[updates-testing]
#name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/$releasever/$basearch/

#[development]
#name=Fedora Core $releasever - Development Tree
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch/

[core]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - core
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/core
[core alt]
name=Secsup.org $releasever - $basearch - core
baseurl=http://redhat.secsup.org/fedora/core/2/i386/os/

[updates]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - updates
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/updates

[update alt]
name=Secsup.org $releasever - $basearch - core
baseurl=http://redhat.secsup.org/fedora/core/updates/2/i386/

[freshrpms]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms

[livna-stable]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable
gpgcheck=1

[fedora-us-2-stable]
name=Fedora Linux (stable) for Fedora Core 2 -- Fedora US mirror
baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.stable

[newrpms.sunsite.dk]
name=Fedora Core 2 NewRPMS.sunsite.dk
baseurl=http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/redhat/en/i386/fc2

[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core 2
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag

[ATrpms]
name=ATrpms for Fedora Core $releasever stable
baseurl=http://apt.atrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/at-stable

| 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 however system-config-network gives you the
option to specify the hostname rather than being assigned on from dhcp.

| 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).

When booting from the install cd, at the boot: prompt type in
"linux xfs"

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Andrew Mathews
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