Well I have Fedora 7 installed but it has not gone quite to plan.
I rearranged all the partitions of my old Slackware installation so that everything was on one disk (/dev/sda) and I removed all the partitions from /dev/sdb. I then ran the Fedora installation telling it to use /dev/sdb.
That went pretty smoothly and I have managed to mount the old Slackware partitions in Fedora so I can see everything.
However I have a couple of problems:-
The Fedora system doesn't seem to be able to update/install new software using yum (or the GUI installer). When run it just hangs at the start where it is trying to get a list of packages.
Fedora uses grub to start up, Slackware used Lilo. Fedora boots from /dev/sdb. Is there any way I can get grub to dual boot Fedora and Slackware? All the Slackware stuff is still there in its /boot on /dev/sda and I can see the Lilo configuration file. What is needed in grub to tell it to boot from an installation on a different drive?
I'm sending this E-Mail from my 'garage' computer, what a good idea that was! :-)
Is Fedora 7 the latest version? I only ask because we use RedHat 4 and 5 at work and version 4 comes with up2date which is replaced with yum in version 5.
On 24/09/2007, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
Well I have Fedora 7 installed but it has not gone quite to plan.
I rearranged all the partitions of my old Slackware installation so that everything was on one disk (/dev/sda) and I removed all the partitions from /dev/sdb. I then ran the Fedora installation telling it to use /dev/sdb.
That went pretty smoothly and I have managed to mount the old Slackware partitions in Fedora so I can see everything.
However I have a couple of problems:-
The Fedora system doesn't seem to be able to update/install new software using yum (or the GUI installer). When run it just hangs at the start where it is trying to get a list of packages. Fedora uses grub to start up, Slackware used Lilo. Fedora boots from /dev/sdb. Is there any way I can get grub to dual boot Fedora and Slackware? All the Slackware stuff is still there in its /boot on /dev/sda and I can see the Lilo configuration file. What is needed in grub to tell it to boot from an installation on a different drive?I'm sending this E-Mail from my 'garage' computer, what a good idea that was! :-)
-- Chris Green
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On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 11:37:40AM +0100, Yvonne Everett wrote:
Is Fedora 7 the latest version? I only ask because we use RedHat 4 and 5 at work and version 4 comes with up2date which is replaced with yum in version 5.
Yes, Fedora 7 is the latest, it's what I have at work so I'm using the same commands that I used on my work system to request updates.
On 24/09/2007, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
Well I have Fedora 7 installed but it has not gone quite to plan.
I rearranged all the partitions of my old Slackware installation so that everything was on one disk (/dev/sda) and I removed all the partitions from /dev/sdb. I then ran the Fedora installation telling it to use /dev/sdb.
That went pretty smoothly and I have managed to mount the old Slackware partitions in Fedora so I can see everything.
However I have a couple of problems:-
The Fedora system doesn't seem to be able to update/install new software using yum (or the GUI installer). When run it just hangs at the start where it is trying to get a list of packages. Fedora uses grub to start up, Slackware used Lilo. Fedora boots from /dev/sdb. Is there any way I can get grub to dual boot Fedora and Slackware? All the Slackware stuff is still there in its /boot on /dev/sda and I can see the Lilo configuration file. What is needed in grub to tell it to boot from an installation on a different drive?I'm sending this E-Mail from my 'garage' computer, what a good idea that was! :-)
-- Chris Green
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