Hey: I seem to have some trouble burning recent Fedora CD's; I wonder if this is a holdover from that kernel thing recently. I can get them to burn well, but only at 2x whereas I've burned on this machine at 8x for over two years now. Installing my old test box (PPro/200, 64MB, 4GB) with FC1 booting from floppy, then using GRUB to boot into the FC3-RC5 install and doing an FTP install from a server on the LAN worked well. No hitches. Since I am only doing a minimal install on this box right now, there are many things which I cannot really test yet. 1. What happened to isdn4k-utils? Used to be around 3.5MB, now installed it takes up over 9MB. Package size hasn't changed much, so I don't understand what happened. 2. Why does rhpl require the synaptics driver? I would like to get rid of all the graphical stuff on the minimal install, but rhpl requires synaptics and a whole bunch of stuff requires rhpl. So in order to lose some GUI packages, I have to lose up2date! And unless I lose up2date, I have to keep about 20MB of stuff I don't need on a minimal install. Can this dependency be eliminated somehow? Please? 3. Despite having *not* selected "Printing" packages during the install, cups and a bunch of stuff is pulled in since it depends on fontconfig, which depends on xorg-x11-libs, which needs synaptics, which again needs rhpl which needs up2date. There is a *LOT* of stuff here which cannot be deleted easily, and I don't understand why these dependencies are there. Why, to delete cups, do I end up having to delete up2date again? 4. If anyone just happens to have the chance to save me from a reinstall on this old box, could I get the output from a "df" command and a "rpm -qa | wc -l" command immediately after first booting a minimal install? I forgot to write that data down for the HOWTO, and I'm going to need it. If no one happens to get it, then I'll have to reinstall this box just to be sure. Cheers, -- Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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