Im going to have to make a great big admission here :-S
I was tinkering around with my Linux box this morning and said to
myself sod it Ill reinstall from scratch since Id done various things to
the system as it stood and I wasnt then sure of what was what. I found
to my horror and shame it was Fedora 3 not 4 I had installed DOH! That
would explain why things wernt working as they should trying to upgrade
to 5.
Anyway I said OK lets reinstall 3 and go from there. Much to my disgust
although 3 installed sort of OK it wasnt quite right as it wasnt
allowing me to open system tools from Gnome and when I opened a CD to
install MADWIFI I had to roll the mouse pointer over the CD window to
make the icons appear and then subsequent Windows wouldnt display
correctly so all in all a bit of a mess. I had no trouble with the FC3
install in the past two or three installs. Out of curiousity I
installed FC2 which went on 100%. The difference in the installs I
noted was the monitor setup on 2 was prior to installation whereas in 3
the display setup is after the install. My monitor an AST Vision7L is
not recognised on the initial probe on either FC 2 or 3 but is listed in
the display setup part of the install on both. So my question on this
would be what would be different between 2 and 3 to cause this problem
is it to do with Gnome or the monitor. As I say Ive had no trouble
installing 3 in the past on the same setup.
On two following the same instructions it would not install the GPG key
using
# rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
It seems to run but just returns to a prompt and using
$ rpm -q gpg-pubkey-6b8d79e6-3f49313d
after says the package was not installed
I dont think that trying to work my way up from 2 all the way to 5 would
be a good idea? Mind I did try to update the system from 2 to 3 using
the DVD but the same display problem existed.
I spent quite a bit of time on this today so would be interested in any
comment on what I did wrong!
Cheers
D
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