Todd Denniston wrote:
Bob Goodwin wrote, On 02/26/2009 02:45 PM:
Now I'm stuck. The simplest thing would be to reinstall the system but
bandwidth for updates is killing me. Wildblue is a satellite service
and
I'm limited to 17 Gigs/30 days. I hate to keep burning up my bw.
Suggestion:
1) in /etc/yum.conf set keepcache=1
2) every so often copy the contents of
/var/cache/yum/updates/packages/ (or if your on F9
/var/cache/yum/updates-newkey/packages/) to an external media
(DVDs/USBHD).
3) when you have to reinstall you can copy the rpms back to the
packages/ directory and yum will see them and know that it does not
have to re download them. [it still has to get/extract the headers,
but they are small.]
This is also a useful trick when you have several machines to update
that are running nearly the same install, i.e., by copying packages/
from the first to later machines, the later machines only have to
download the packages that the first machine was not running. :)
Ok, I did as yous suggested and it's running update for the third time!
Hopefully I will be able to use those files on this computer which I
will next upgrade from F-9 to 10.
I eventually got the other computer into a state where it would no
longer boot. Apparently it wanted some files on the second drive and I
had repartitioned it with fdisk. They were gone.
I had already wasted several days of my spare time trying to make it
work and the most expeditious way out was a reinstall. I wanted to
reduce the size of the XP partition anyway in addition to adding the
second drive. Once I get things running I have a pata drive I want to
add to the mix. I will have build up some nerve to do that!
Thanks all.
Bob
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