Many readers wrote in to tell us that Red Hat’s Fedora Core 2 has been released. The torrents are available here, or it can be downloaded from a mirror.
Fedora Core 2 Released
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Hehe, thats funny. I just checked this website and fedora’s site about 10 minutes ago and there was no mention of it being released on either site. Sneaky lil devils. Now I gotta wait til I get home to download the ISOs
This is awesome, gonna get Bittorrent started when I get home! Sweet.
We’ll the news was already on http://www.nedlinux.nl this morning and it was on http://www.distrowatch.com yesterday.
I was trying it out a while, but when I downloaded the FC 2 Test 3, the Grub bootloader didn’t install right I guess, and it basically put Win XP on the bootloader menu but I couldn’t actually go into Windows… being a complete Linux novice among a bunch of chat people who weren’t really patient enough to help me fix the problem, I lost my C: drive which hadn’t been backed up and with it a good amount of time in emails.
So no more Fedora for me… I have a SUSE disc if I ever wana try something, but I think that I’ll get a PowerBook / OSX for my Unix needs for school.
http://66.90.75.92/suprnova//torrents/1752/FC2-i386-DVD.iso.torrent
and
http://66.90.75.92/suprnova//torrents/1752/FC2-i386-isos.torrent
(DVD and CDs) – were out the 16th, and started flying after a few hours.
I can’t wait to read the slew of reviews indicating just how easy the installation is
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2004-May/msg000…
Funny.
First, what are you complaining about a test release being broken? If you can’t deal with a broken test release you shouldn’t install it.
Second, for that specific bug, it seems to be a known issue, but there dosn’t seem to be enough information to debug it. If you could give some more information (such as, does it happen with a 2.4 kernel, or with an older grub from FC1) it will help solve the problem.
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115980
Besides the boot into WinXP bug (does it affect 2k?), are there any other real big huge problems?
I’m nuking my Windows drive anyways, so drive geometry issues are not going to be a big problem (right?).
-Erwos
Now here’s what I’d like to know: Is it any good? I hate to sound like a troll, but to put it quite simply, Fedora core 1 was ass. It’s going to take alot for me to dedicate perfectly good cdrs to fedora again.
4 CDs!!!!!!
They need to fix this so Fedora can fit on 1 CD. 4 CDs is completely insane.
Now here’s what I’d like to know: Is it any good? I hate to sound like a troll, but to put it quite simply, Fedora core 1 was ass. It’s going to take alot for me to dedicate perfectly good cdrs to fedora again.
Yes, Fedora Core 1 had a few embarassing bugs, but they were nothing crucial. In fact, all of the major bugs were fixed within a week of the release if I remember correctly.
Did you actually install Fedora Core 1 or are you just trolling for fun?
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/
All i see is fc2-t3 & fc1
Im told that you only need the first 2 CDs for a default install. The 3rd/4th CDs are mostly development(gcc, kernel-source,etc) and the international packages.
If it took only a week after the final release of FC1 to fix most of the bugs then maybe they need a slightly longer test period. I guess we will see if they learned form the mistake.
its lovely, installed it on two machines already, really fast and really slick !
if you download the DVD make sure to MD5SUM it before burning
screenshots here
http://www.linux-noob.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=737
cheers
anyweb
Is there an extra 2 GB of information on it or did they just not take out the empty space when creating the ISO?
refresh a few times and now they are there, oh well. 😉
I think for standard workstation installation you only need 2 CD’s.
Well in the past everytime I install Linux I only end up with extra installation CD.
but I do agree Fedora packs way too much stuff..
wait for Cobind?
Does anyone know if FC2 plays nicer within Virtual PC? Apparently there is a problem with teh S3 emulated drivers because FC3 won’t work in any resolution beyond 1024×768 without freaking out. QNX 6 works just fine but this is the only other OS I have installed in VPC. I tried Cobind Linux but that’s built around FC1 and FC1 had the display problems so I’m assuming it’s a problem with FC and not VPC.
The Fedora test releases are just that: tests. They’re intended for testers who uncover and report bugs,not general use. That’s why had 3 test releases between Core 1 and Core 2. How many other distributions do you see having 3 public test releases between official releases?
Why is it that so many people pick up a product with the word “test” or “beta” in it and whine when something breaks?
I suppose the extra 2GB is the source, so you get everything on one disc.
So, you would be comparing Fedora with all the distributions that release perfect software with no bugs?
When i used to install redhat, it pretty much required 3 CDs. I’d like to see a distro make some decisions and streamline a base OS install to 1 CD and < 1GB on the HD. Then the 2nd CD should be for productivity and the 3rd should be for development. The install process should give you the options to install the 2nd and 3rd disc, but disc 1 should install to a basically comprable to windows XP environment (Media player, web browser, some games, basic text editing, etc).
it installs fine in vmware, but after the first reboot it ends with a kernel panic, no root fs found
rather: unable to mount root fs
Is there any way we can upgrade to FC2 using yum or apt-get?
Thanks.
“Did you actually install Fedora Core 1 or are you just trolling for fun?”
Why yes, as a matter of fact I BOUGHT a copy of the official feodra companion at Barnes and Noble, which included the disks with it. I ended up trading it for a signed copy of Linux toys at linux fest northwest.
I totally agree, 4 CD’s is too much. Fedora Core should concentrate on just the “Core” part, it should fit on just one CD. The rest should be available on extras CD’s or via the internet, which has the advantage of being easy to update.
what is the major difference between freshrpms and the fedora.us repository? I have used freshrpms up to now but am wondering whether there is any merit in switching?
well, debian sarge will be 13 CDs… so what… 😉
All i see is fc2-t3 & fc1
Empty your browser cache. They’re there.
“Is there any way we can upgrade to FC2 using yum or apt-get? ”
You could proably replace your existing FC1 repos with FC2 but im 100% sure you will break something. Its better to just do a new install.
Since they fixed the FC1 bugs within a week and assuming they’ll do the same thing for FC2, should I wait for them to release an updated version before I download, or do their fixes come in the form of patches or a Windows Update-style service?
The same day : Fedora 2 rolling out. Greet & and thanks to Red Hat )
And, the shameful ( but thanks to Mandrake ) :
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2474
This is FC2 final, not a test release.
A known bug (since test2 I think and quite many people are able to reproduce it) that corrupts (in a way that even advanced linux users can’t get it fixed other than doing a full reinstall) the WinXP boot should not have ended in the final release.
There are many posts on the fedora-test forums that sound like “MS does not support dualboot too”, “get rid of windows then”, “this is MS problem”.
This is just not right. Knowningly releasing something that will break the working systems of thousands unsuspecting users is WRONG, BAD, EVIL and from a publicity point of view – STUPID. This is not the usual “my sound card will not work” kind of bug.
Since they fixed the FC1 bugs within a week and assuming they’ll do the same thing for FC2, should I wait for them to release an updated version before I download, or do their fixes come in the form of patches or a Windows Update-style service?
No, you might as well download it now. All Fedora Core updates are in the form of updated RPMs that can be downloaded using up2date, yum, or apt. They never incorporate these updates into the official ISOs until they release a whole new version.
Hope that answers your question.
The problem you described was a commonly reported bug. I had the same experience. It doesn’t matter how much you pleaded for help because noone could have helped you. That bug nuked your MBR in a serious fashion. That is why it was a test release. The primary release of Fedora 1 was utterly stable, there is no reason to think that release 2 will be any different in stability from 1. A test release is NOT safe. A final is. Now, OS X is a great system,I own a Powermac G4, but it DOES NOT meet all my Unix needs as the Unix subsystem is not complete. Aside from Fink, you are mostly cut off from the wide world of OSS.
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Linux getting better and better ( but still nearly 5 years obsolete from it’s competitors ), but the linux trolls clearly doesn’t suffer such limitations !
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before you make such jumps you should know that an unoffical bittorrent link was posted by slashdot a couple of days before and many people are using fc2 already. so much for trolling
Well, without a dsl line, 4 CD are huge. This is true.
But on the other hand, at least in Europa, Red Hat distribute since the beginning of this year ( every 2 or three months ), a magazine, with the latest Fedora release.
So, for something like 5$ ( which is exactly the good price dor a Linux distro ), you can have the distro, and some good article.
Another very strong move from Red Hat ;-)))
First off all Germany and France(2 of the biggest members of the EU) are against s/w patents. Without their support its pretty unlikely that a US style patent system will be adopted.
Secondly what does this have to do with the release of FC2? You win-trolls can atleast try to be on topic while your trolling.
lovely linux trolls gets better all the time ;-))))))))))))))))
By Xavier (IP: 195.101.164.—) – Posted on 2004-05-18 17:56:02
yes i downloaded it yesterday (thats right, yesterday) from a mirror which didn’t deny access to the directory
not that hard either, and for that matter there were bittorrents going around as well for the last few days – here for example http://kuix.de/fedora/
so yeah, its installed on two boxes, one a desktop, the other a laptop (this one)
heres some info for you of little faith
[root@localhost root]# uname -ar
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.5-1.358 #1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@localhost root]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang)
the yum updates don’t work right yet as documented in the fedora-test-list mailing list, it will be fixed, its just a problem with the headers.
apt-get for Tettnang
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/2/i386/freshrpms/RPMS/apt-0.5…
fix xmms with mp3 plugin here
http://img.osnews.com/files/xmms-mp3-fc1.tar.gz
it works i tested it (xmms 1.2.10)
Mozilla (Gecko) is @ v 1.6
gnome @ v gnome-desktop-2.6.0.1-1
oh, and i’m posting this in FCR2 on my laptop,
and yes, it’s very very nice. Well done to the Fedora Team.
cheers
anyweb (yes i know my site is down due to the traffic – ho hum, back up later i guess)
I recall when installing the FC2 Test releases that there was a screen at the beginning of the install that warned about installing a test or beta release and then required me to click a “continue anyway” button to proceed.
Anyway, I’m sorry to hear that you had problems with a FC2Test install and may have lost data. Depending on what you have done since that time you may still be able to recover your data. Email me (piller visi net) if you want help in trying to recover from the problem.
As for me I’ve been impressed with FC2T3 plus updates, I’ll be installing FC2 final tonight!
Anyweb: have you installed it on any computers where you are dual booting? Have there been any problems? I intend to install it on a computer that’s not mine and will get in major trouble if I mess up other people’s data.
Has anyone tried both FC2 and SUSE 9.1? How do they compare speed-wise?
e: lovely linux trolls gets better all the time ;-))))))))))))))))
By Matthew Smith (IP: —.king.ac.uk) – Posted on 2004-05-18 18:16:27
Matthew,
I’ve installed it on one box that has Windows on it, Windows XP Pro and Longhorn 4074, and it dual (triple ?) boots just fine on that machine
I’m using grub of course, and on that installation, i wiped a fedora core release 1 install that was already there (deleted all LINUX partitions during the install) and installed it in there,
works just fine on that machine and on this,
cheers
anyweb
don’t forget to BACKUP any data before you dual boot install,
just to be on the safe side, its always best to backup
cheers
anyweb
Well, firewire is not enabled in this release. the current nVidia driver doesn’t work plus this ennoying WinXP boot problem so no FC2 for me.
As for all the people who jump on people’s throat when they try a test release and it doesn’t work I would say yes, it’s a test release and you can’t expect everything to work. The pbm is that people reported it on the list and basically it was not handled very well… Sort of get rid of Windows, don’t dual boot etc… Same thing for the nVidia driver.
It shows one thing really clearly (if it was not obvious yet) FC is only a test bed for RH Enterprise hence the reason why 3D acceleration , dual boot with WinXP and firewire are just not considered as well as other features such as SE Linux
Show me a server that will run RH Enterprise that needs:
– 3D acceleration
– firewire
– dual boot with WinXP
I’m pretty sure you won’t find many
so for these customers it’s perfectly acceptable to not have these features. For us, people who want a not too shabby linux desktop, tough shit really!
Actually I’m typing this using SuSE 9.1 Pro and firewire works, nVidia driver works and my WinXP is still alive
Just my opinion and maybe it’s not even worth 2 pence to others
I should apologize. Your right. According to http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=57741“ rel=”nofollow”>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/?
Linux is not behind its competitors because it has no competitors.)
First place in the linux troll hall of fame. The “rest”, i mean the very little 95-98% of computers are certainly running under some operation of the Holy spirit… TM of course ;-))))
Does it have a working Yum/apt GUI?
Victor.
whoops that URL came out kinda funky but still works OK.
Ok, everyone keeps complaining about how FC2 destroys your harddrive if you have WinXP installed simultaneously.
Can anyone report a successful installation on a machine with WinXP? I have seen one person, but would really, really like to hear from more than one. Obviously they would have to pull this release if it killed everyone’s WinXP harddrives, right?
“Can anyone report a successful installation on a machine with WinXP? I have seen one person, but would really, really like to hear from more than one. Obviously they would have to pull this release if it killed everyone’s WinXP harddrives, right?
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works fine here
Maybe I’ll just drive to RedHat world headquarters in Raleigh and beg for some real CD’s. Oughta be quicker…
>>”A known bug (since test2 I think and quite many people are able to reproduce it) that corrupts (in a way that even advanced linux users can’t get it fixed other than doing a full reinstall) the WinXP boot should not have ended in the final release.”
No issue with that. If they didn’t fix the bug, they ought to at least detect dual-boot installs and issue a warning, giving the user the option of backing out.
Is this a Grub bug, or has RedHat tweaked the code?
Fours Cds – http://66.90.75.92/suprnova//torrents/1752/FC2-i386-isos.torrent / http://kuix.de/fedora/fedora-core-2-isos.torrent
One DVD – http://66.90.75.92/suprnova//torrents/1752/FC2-i386-DVD.iso.torrent
Link: http://www.linuxit.com.br
The reason why the nVidia drivers does not work is because of the kernel with 4K stacks. However, you can fix this by compiling a new kernel, or wait for the next driver release by nVidia – probably by the end of this month.
Thank to a Gentoo guy, this link :
http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/
This is a multi-boot ( from floppy drive. You may install it on the hard drive, but then i’m afraid that the grub issue will whipe it out the disk also ) with automatic recognition of the hard drive mapping. Fine ;-)))
So you only have to install your distro WITHOUT dual boot.
Crashing the w2k boot loader is not a Fedora issue, Mandrake too, Gentoo too, Peanut Linux too, etc… so this little piece of software is really usefull, if you still have a floppy drive ;-)))
The other way to correct this is to use the w2k recovery console from the install cd-rom ( then, you will have to destroy the linux partition, and only reformat the boot loader, something equivalent to the old fdisk /mbr on dos, w95 and w98 ). And you can restart your Linus install, with w2k running, how a marvelous world ;-))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
The Torrent gives you all four CDs in one torrent. I tried running this on my Mac at home, and gave up because it said it was going to take days! What’s the point?! I went into college and got a quicker download there. If you’re in Europe, use the server for the nearest small country – one server for 5 million people will give you the ISOs quicker than two for 60 million.
I have yet to install FC2 final, (still d/l’ng) But I have installed FC1 FC2T1 T2 and T3 in a dual boot with XP Pro on my laptop and have yet to have a problem scrambling my MBR. This is a known bug, but it is not one that shows everytime you install. Most people are going to install safely. Yes you should backup your data before installing and OS. That is common sense, and if you do not know that, you shouldn’t be installing an OS to begin with. I have seen Windows corrupt the MBR when doing dual boot setups with 98/2K and 98/XP. No OS is perfect. Install Fedora, enjoy your dual boot happiness.
I’ve not yet had a chance to get this behemoth downloaded, let alone installed. Does it suck as bad as all of the previous Fedora releases (tests and non-test) to date?
You will have to wait for sometime for bittorrent to pick up speed. getting impatient wont work
Truth is, I’m less than 20 miles from Duke. I left it run for an hour or so and the download rate never broke into double figures. That’s marginally worse than the currently glacial ftp mirror sites.
Why fedora is always so incomplete?
Fedora 1 was so full of bugs (so they say), i wouldn’t want to install such buggy distro. And now… now they say you should be careful when installing Fedora 2 because it may f*** up your computer… that’s a totally showstopper, how the hell am i supposed to trust installing it?
I mean, i don’t mind having a couple of bugs here and there, bug this is a huge bug, they shouldn’t have released such an incomplete distro again.
Victor.
“I mean, i don’t mind having a couple of bugs here and there, bug this is a huge bug, they shouldn’t have released such an incomplete distro again. ”
it worked fine for both releases here. the dual boot bug doesnt seem to be in the final release. wait for a week if you want to
As many people already reported, editing the partition table on 2.6 kernels might cause Windows not to boot anymore. Even Windows reinstall doesn’t help. Unfortunately Mandrake 10 and SUSE 9.1 have the same problem. There are more info and potential solutions at http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html
Type “Total Disaster” into Google, and it returns Fedora Core 2 as the #2 hit. The only thing that suprises me is that it’s not the number one…
LMAO!!! For anyone too lazy to look. Google comes up with this review of FC2-test1.
http://lwn.net/Articles/71726/
Type “Total Disaster” into Google, and it returns Fedora Core 2 as the #2 hit. The only thing that suprises me is that it’s not the number one…
Excellent ;-)))
That’s said, i’m still stick with RH9, and will stay with Fedora, just after they solve the package installer issues ( don’t know for fc2, but this was really annoying with fc1 first release. Fc1b was nearly fine ).
some mobos don`t work, vmware try to install it there LOL
RedHat BETA, can`t wait untill the tested version comes out
FC1 was the best community product I’ve ever used, but maybe I have FC1 final release two or something, but it’s been as solid as a rock.
A quad boot install (with Win 98 SE one of the OS’es) of Fedora Core 2 final worked OK for me – just wiped off FC2T3 and cold-installed FC2 final on the same partition. An ancient 3-buttoned (no scroll wheel) PS/2 mouse doesn’t work (a kernel 2.6.5 issue, don’t think FC2 is to blame – mouse worked in everything up to and inc FC2T2) and we all know about the nvidia driver issue (this is Nvidia’s fault for not issuing a 4K stacks compatible driver, not FC2’s fault at all).
BTW, even installing compilers/headers/etc, I still only needed CDs 1-3, so people moaning about “4 CDs” should note that they won’t necessarily need all 4 (anaconda pre-calculates which CDs you need before you start using them – note for an FC2 server install, I only needed CDs 1 and 3).
From the sounds of things, no-one’s yet reported a problem installing FC2 final with a dual-boot XP setup, so it’s quite possible it’s been fixed in the final release (in fact, I’d be *very* surprised if it wasn’t fixed in the final, because it’s a serious problem).
Did you open up the ports 6881:6999 on your machine so that you can upload as well as download?
What command did you run to start your download?
What are your upload and download rates?
What kind of connection do you have to the internet?
Bittorrent worked great here, I have already got the full download of 2.1 GB and have so far uploaded 4.7 GB, present upload rate is 250 KB/s. I just finished burning the last FC2 CD here on my FC1 machine, it’s kind of neat to be able to burn CD’s while leaving the bittorrent client running.
*don’t you love distro bashing?*
for one thing, it’s a (p)review (??) of FC2-test1
what do you expect? a rock solid distro that has absolutely no problems whatsoever? yeah right. total disaster. i guess the reviewer was a wee bit too anxious to get it working. how many in 10 use a test distro as a regular desktop without knowing how to handle/face a problem?
lighten up!! enjoy whats good instead of going on about what’s bad.
P.S: the only thing i consider serious is the boot bug – if it happens on almost every system
“Can anyone report a successful installation on a machine with WinXP? I have seen one person, but would really, really like to hear from more than one. Obviously they would have to pull this release if it killed everyone’s WinXP harddrives, right?”
It works for me. I was previously dual booting XP and Gentoo, but now it’s FC2 and XP. I deleted the Gentoo partitions and resized the NTFS partition using qtparted on Knoppix before I installed FC2. Everything has worked fine, although Fedora does take quite a bit longer to boot up than Gentoo.
hahaha that was an extremly good one
And Fedora is not good, suse 9.1,Mandrake work so much better, why RedHat wanna be first to use stuff, you can`t get Nvidia on Fedora 2, Vmware install don`t work got a tips on a howto: http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3097
My mobo don`t work, why? well driver not there I guess, since “same kernel” works in debian,mandrak and suse.
Fedora needs to puch more stable vs new things
With all the SRPMs available for the Fedora core distributions, what would it take to make a source-based install out of this? I like Fedora’s filesystem layout and configuration system, but I’d like the optimization source-based distros like Gentoo have. Is any work being done on making a source-based one using SRPMS as source?
i’ve installed fc1 and fc2 test 3 with winxp. no corruption problems here–everything dual-booted just fine.
however, if you get the problem, sounds like this is what you need to do (haven’t tried it, but this is what i do when i get corrupt boot sector in windows):
1) put in windows setup cd, boot into it
2) hit R when it prompts to go to recovery console
3) type fixmbr. this will swipe and fix the master boot record
4) type fixboot. restores your default windows xp boot menu to the master boot record, so you can boot up windows.
you won’t be able to boot into linux anymore (at least not without a boot disk), but you should be able to boot into windows again, with no loss of data.
i should have said: i have tried this before, but not as a result of fedora fucking up my mbr (had to do it once after mandrake ruined it)
Boot up with the windows XP CD
Instead of a new install, choose to repair existing,
Then Press R I believe for the recovery console.
At that point it will prompt you for the admin psswd,
enter it
once you are at the c:> prompt, just type this in and hit enter
fixmbr
it will ask you to confirm, say yes and it will be done in a split second, type exit, reboot and you should be booting back into XP.
Well, let’s see,,,the ports are open, I used the command listed on the Fedora site ( btdownloadcurses.py –url http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/tettnang-binary-i386-iso.torrent); I’m seeing 2-3 kb/s down and 20-25 up on a good DSL line.
So… as far as I understand, the bug only occurs when you edit (ie. resize) some partition and doesn’t when not doing that?
“So… as far as I understand, the bug only occurs when you edit (ie. resize) some partition and doesn’t when not doing that?”
nobody has this problem in the final release afaik
Dual booting is for sissies anyways
Almost any application you needed in Windows either has a:
A) port
B) can be used with WINE
C) or has an open source clone
The first reasons I dual booted were because of that. But since then I’ve made the full switch. I play Counter-strike, listen to music, AIM, surf the web, and sync my mp3 (well, OGG in my case) player. Just takes a little effort. So if the reason you’re avoiding FC2 is because of the dual boot issue, you shouldn’t fear too much.
Wow. Kingston was right.
What I’m really missing in Linux (not only Fedora) is a good AudioPlayer like Foobar2000 (or even Winamp). XMMS isn’t half as good as them. (the last time I used it the mpc plaugin didn’t even read ape2 tags, and I’m not sure if there’s a FAAD2 based HE-AAC compatible plugin or Monkey’s Audio support…).
Even more annoying is, that there’s not one appreciate Ripping Tool. This CD Paranoia thingy can’t compare to something like EAC.
“Wow. Kingston was right.”
thats way google work. pretty much any word can link to any site. it doesnt significant by any means
“What I’m really missing in Linux (not only Fedora) is a good AudioPlayer like Foobar2000 (or even Winamp). XMMS isn’t half as good as them. (the last time I used it the mpc plaugin didn’t even read ape2 tags, and I’m not sure if there’s a FAAD2 based HE-AAC compatible plugin or Monkey’s Audio support…).
Even more annoying is, that there’s not one appreciate Ripping Tool. This CD Paranoia thingy can’t compare to something like EAC.”
look again for rhythmbox, juk and k3b. its as good as any others
dag and planet repos for other stuff
fedoratracker.org
no use. AFAIK XMMS is the *only* linux player which Musepack support.
Where are the MD5s? (in my case, for the DVD)
Where are the MD5s?
On the fedora.redhat.com website. They are GPG signed. I really wish more people would do that…
Well, admit it. Fedora test releases are much more buggy than Debian unstable. Actually Debian unstable is very stable.
I can install Potato(Debian 2.2) and upgrade to Sid(Debian unstable) with just “apt-get dist-upgrade”, without any problem. Try that with Redhat 7.0 to Fedora Core 2. Potato is released 2000-08-14. Redhat 7.0 is released 2000-08-28. Can “yum” do that?
i’ve had the isos for a day … haven’t tried to install myself. not sure a reinstall or an upgrade over FC1. any idea?
Personally, I wanted to get away from reinstalling from scratch; this is part of the reason why I left windows.
I tried various distros, redhat, mdk, jamd, mepis, knoppix, and morphix. I settled on morphix it being debian unstable.
Now that I have settled on this, I can’t see a reason to check out a new distro. I left the others mainly over package management. So I fail to see the reasoning. New kernel? grab the source and compile. New KDE? apt-get install kde. New Xfree86? apt-get once again.
AFAIK, there isn’t a smooth upgrade path, from old fedora to the new one. So I assume people are downloading the iso’s and reinstalling, or installing to a new partition. After the novelty wears off of checking out new distros, it becomes just a pain in the butt. I want and expect a smooth upgrade path. Not set my system just the way I like, and then toast the whole thing and start again a few months later. So, why do you all do this? Or is there something I’m missing? Or more specifically, what is that shiny new distro going to give you that the old one cannot? Or cannot through some package update. If the reason being is that there isn’t an elegant way of upgrading than I’d question actually using that distro.
And don’t get me wrong, I love checking out new stuff, I apt-get like crazy, but thats my point, a new toy comes out I just install it and not start all over again.
>>”I can install Potato(Debian 2.2) and upgrade to Sid(Debian unstable) with just “apt-get dist-upgrade”, without any problem.”
That’s nice if you want to run Debian. 🙂
Wow, FC2 nuked my C: drive as well. Yay! Hope that XP recovery console trick works! :
So, updating from Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2 is not supported? That feels very wrong. I tried FreeBSD, Gentoo, and finally Debian. None had such stupid problem.
Downloads Files Bittorrents
http://www.linuxit.com.br/downloads/fedora2/
“So, updating from Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2 is not supported?”
its fully supported.
If it’s fully supported, I cannot understand all these excitements to the new release, at all. FreeBSD 5.2 was not exciting. Anybody following 5-current had it already. Gentoo 2004.1 was not exciting. Anybody doing emerge had it already. Debian Sarge wouldn’t be much interesting also. Anybody running unstable will have it already.