On Fri, 23 May 2008 20:01:59 +0000, I Beartooth Sciurivore wrote: [....] As posted in the thread on X not starting, I finally threw in the towel. I salvaged most of my home directory by scp to another LAN machine; did a fresh install of F8 onto the linux drive; copied back the / etc/grub.conf I had had before; made sure I could still boot to XP; ran yum update; and copied back the salvaged files. The machine now runs F8 (and, rarely, XP) just as before. My copious thanks to all those who helped. I will try an upgrade again; but I'll try to wait for the anaconda bug to get stomped, and use a respin -- since my suspicion is that it was some combination of that, the new monitor, and the dual-boot that I tripped over. Meanwhile, with both machines behind a KVM switch, I'm having the curious experience of changing at the push of a button between two machines which are nearly identical except for the OS -- all the same apps (other than Firefox 2 vs. 3) on all the same workspaces ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2.0.3, Epiphany 2.20, Opera 9.27, Firefox 2 & 3 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
