Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On 8/3/07, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, August 3, 2007 2:38 pm, Carl Lowenstein wrote: >>> On 8/3/07, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> So I booted the Fedora 7 Live CD, and tried to find out what software >>>> packages were installed. >>>> >>> There may be light at the end of the tunnel. The corresponding Live >>> CD from Rawhide, which says "Fedora 8" on a splash screen, but "Fedora >>> release 7.90" when asked politely, still seems to have no .rpm files >>> but at least "rpm -qa" works the way it should. > > Some second thought here. There are no .rpm packages because this is > a Live CD, and you aren't supposed to add to what is already > installed. I can live with that, but it was somewhat disconcerting > when the list of installed packages could not be generated.
I was just in the process of asking you what you expected to find. I guess the install from livecd probably duplicates itself on its victim? If so, you can see the list of rpms comprising the livecd via rpm -qa Is that not what you are looking to find out? > >>> Maybe there are updates/bug fixes on repository sites, but I haven't >>> gone looking for them because I don't yet have a real Fedora 7 >>> installation to work with. >>> >> As a veteran of many RH releases, I have two pieces of hard-won wisdom to >> share: >> >> 1. Never be the first on your block >> >> 2. Occasionally just skip one > > At the moment, I have skipped 4, 5, and 6, since I am still running > Fedora Core 3 on my main machine. I think it's time for a change. > Core 6 on the Thinkpad laptop seems OK, although I don't use it for > much besides bringing to InstallFests to have a known working computer > among all the others that turn up there. I installed f7 a couple days ago on my x86_64, and am happy with it. Also played with the livecd a bit, and it seems pretty nice, too. One major promise that I think they came out good on was making wireless 'just work' -- I don't know yet whether they actually got close to _that_, but it sure does *suck much less*. :-) Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
