Charles Dostale wrote:
> I moved from LinuxPPC to YDL 2.1, I wiped my entire drive and started
over.
Hm. The computer in question is "my" home system, a beige G3 that
I and other family members use. A complete wipe would be rather
drastic, since I don't plan on touching the MacOS side of things.
If OSX supported serial ports and Mach64, I'd probably just go
that route.
>> ... I'm planning to try booting the
>> rescue RAMdisk from the Tasty Morsels CD, blowing away
>> the old install, then start loading RPMs...
>
> What about mounting the install disk and doing a 'rpm -Fvh *.rpm'
> where the new 2.2 rpms at located? They should _all_ be newer than
> the LinuxPPC rpms, replacing the existing ones.
Good idea, if I wanted to install the world. :-) I *am* worried
about dependencies quite a bit, though -- looking through the YDL
mail archives, there's an implication that Yup won't be able to
do its job if it gets confused by dependency issues.
The interesting thing I found in the archives is that YDL 2.2
supports apt (which I've used with fink on OSX, and found far
superior to RPM for handling dependencies). Maybe what I need
to do is boot the rescue RAMdisk, wipe the root & usr partitions,
then apt-get everything I want. If apt isn't on the rescue disk,
I could always install the bare minimum to get a shell prompt +
apt onto the hard drive. Once I'm there, I should be on the way.
>> Furrfu. If my home connection wasn't a dialup, I would
>> have gone with Debian or LFS.</aside>
>
> Seems like Mandrake installs even more stuff, it could be worse ;)
> Linux has definately moved away from "runs in 16 MB of ram on a 486".
Not really -- I have a 486 with 8 MB of RAM that runs Linux &
makes itself useful for various light chores. It will even run
X, but I usually leave it in console mode because the monitor
is fuzzy. If distro makers would expend a little effort, most
of them could support small-footprint installs.
>> And how about
>> running a shell in one of the text consoles like LinuxPPC
>> used to do, huh?
>
> I think with the X Window installer you can open up xterms. When I
> installed YDL 2.1, I couldn't get the command line installer to work,
> I had to use the X Window installer.
Nope -- I was using the X installer. Either I couldn't get the
silly thing to recognize a right-click, or there's no menu in
the 2.2 installer. Whatever the case, I had no way to shell
out -- if I could have reached a shell, I probably wouldn't
be whining on MaX. :-)
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