On Jan 23, 2008 1:34 PM, Andrew Farris <lordmorgul@xxxxxxxxx> 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. > > 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. > Could I bother somebody with a bit more specific instuctions. I wen't to this link: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ and the link to rawhide mirrors is broken :( http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/development/ The requested URL /mirrorlists/publiclist//Fedora/development/ was not found on this server. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
