On Jan 23, 2008 1:34 PM, Andrew Farris <lordmorgul(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Valent Turkovic wrote:
> Hi, I some great features in rawhide and would like to check them out.
> I tried this and it fails to give gui after that, I see that X starts
> but I don't see gdm or gnome even trying to start...
>
> How I tried to become rawhide tester? Here is how:
> Installed clean F8 Live CD on ext3 8GB partition with separate /home
> (shared with other distros I have)
> updated F8 with latest patches and rebooted (300MB of updates!)
> forced yum to use development updates with "yum updates
> --enablerepo=development"
> and after 600MB of updates I restarted with no gui
> I deleted xorg.xonf and tried another go and nothing happened.
>
> Is there another way to become a rawhide tester?
>
> Cheers,
> Valent.
Its highly advisable not to share your /home with rawhide, since app settings
and such saved in there can really wreak havoc, and keeping in mind many of the
rawhide packages get built right out of bleeding code changes... its not
guaranteed not to delete it all. Unless thats backed up often its just not
worth losing your shared configs/setup/data...
If you can, its best to just give it its own partitions home and all, in an lvm
if you want, but separate anyway.
Maybe I wasn't clear, I only share the partition not the user name. So
my regular fedora 8 username would be /home/valent or something like
that, and my rawhide home folder would be /home/rawhide
I tested rawhide before it became fedora 8 and I had no issues with
this setup - rawhide didn't go outside it's sandbox (/home/rawhide)
and regular username is is isolated from rawhide. This is of course
just my observation and it is probable best to keep them on separate
partition.
One method for installing is to get the boot.iso from the development
mirror and
burn it and use that to do an install. You can then do network install from the
mirror (find the url to the closest mirror for you, ftp or http). You need the
path to the directory os, or rather where you find the /Packages directory.
Thank you, I'll try that right now.
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