[Novalug] EeePC/F8 update : glitch
Beartooth
karhunhammas@Lserv.com
Mon Mar 3 10:34:41 EST 2008
On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Paul Bohme wrote:
>
>>> Just don't be quite as enthusiastic in your pruning on the
>>> next run through.. ;-)
>>
>> <sigh> I know patience is a virtue -- and its own
>> punishment ...
>
> Slow and easy is the rule here - change one thing at a time and
> test the daylights out of it. (Pretend it's a good ol'
> fashioned Windows install and reboot regularly... ;->) You're
> probably going to end up removing quite a few packages again,
> but go slow. Not too big of batches, and when in doubt leave
> things that you're not 100% sure of alone. I tend to keep
> copious notes during this kind of process (love KDE's 'basket')
> so I at least know where things went off the rails..
I normally run through pirut twice. The first time I look
at each item in the left column; then at the first one on the
right, and go through the optional stuff. Whenever I rack up a
bunch of changes, I do an Apply, to see what *else* will be
involved. If it's OK, I let it work, and go to the next.
I have not normally been doing reboots in between. I
guess I'd better.
I *am* doing one quite different thing. Puppy had made it
quite easy, even encouraged me, to install to a thumb drive
instead of the hard drive; and it seems to run all right so long
as that's there. So this time I looked around, and sure enough,
Fedora let me install to one, too.
(I used a 1 GB 'geek stick,' as my pathologist friend
calls them, for Puppy -- and an 8 GB one, twice the size of the
EeePC's own hard drive, for F8. I also have a 4 GB SD memory card
in it, partitioned mostly to swap.)
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Beartooth Implacable, Curmudgeonly Codger Learning Linux
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