Newb

[Dustin Hill]

Hello all!  I'm new to linux and can't seem to find a real beginners 
guide anywhere, so I joined this list to see if I could get some help.  
I just installed FC1 and am wondering how to update it to FC3.  I'm 
hoping that I won't have to burn the .isos and reinstall everything 
again.  I've been on windows forever and have no real clue how to do 
anything in linux.  It took me two hours to figure out how to run 
up2date.  Any help/guidance will be kindly accepted.

[Marc M]

Hello:  Welcome to the list, this is a great list with a lot of smart
people.  You might try looking through the list archives for terms
like 'newb' or 'newbie' or 'installation' .  There is a lot of
the
same ground that we go over with people, not that people aren't
willing to help, but fyi since seeing the posts will teach you a heck
of a lot.

Good news:  you installed FC1 successfully!  That's great!  Personally
I don't normally do updates across versions, because I like to get a
fresh 'clean' install at the baseline of the FCx number each release
time, but that is just my personal preference.  If you really want to
go FC1 to FC3, I am sure someone on this list will likely help you
with that.  In my opinion it is just a heck of a lot easier to do a
fresh install.  The installation process alone will teach you a
zillion things; in my opinion it is really worth it to reinstall for
that reason alone.

Google a lot.  In fact, try www.google.com/linux for your searches as
you already have much ot the territory cut down for you.   Redhat.com
has a TON of guides to all sorts of topics - you should be able to
find docs, howto papers, etc. as you go forth.  A lot of them are
advanced but there is some good introductory material if you look
around enough.  Linuxmigration.com has some good introductory info
<along with pictures> which I found very useful.  Also
linuxhomenetworking.com is another good one.  You will find more in
the archives.  Hopefully that will keep you busy for awhile.

Hope that helps
Marc




On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:37:43 -0500, Dustin Hill
<dustinadamhill(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hello all!  I'm new to linux and can't seem to find a real
> beginners
>  guide anywhere, so I joined this list to see if I could get some help.
>  I just installed FC1 and am wondering how to update it to FC3.  I'm
>  hoping that I won't have to burn the .isos and reinstall everything
>  again.  I've been on windows forever and have no real clue how to do
>  anything in linux.  It took me two hours to figure out how to run
>  up2date.  Any help/guidance will be kindly accepted.
>  
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[Craig White]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 22:37 -0500, Dustin Hill wrote:
>  Hello all!  I'm new to linux and can't seem to find a real
> beginners 
>  guide anywhere, so I joined this list to see if I could get some help.  
>  I just installed FC1 and am wondering how to update it to FC3.  I'm 
>  hoping that I won't have to burn the .isos and reinstall everything 
>  again.  I've been on windows forever and have no real clue how to do 
>  anything in linux.  It took me two hours to figure out how to run 
>  up2date.  Any help/guidance will be kindly accepted. 
----
does up2date still work with FC-1 now that it has been transferred to
fedora-legacy? I'm sure that to use it, you would have to change your
sources at the very least.

There is a way to do dist-upgrade with yum or apt - there are varying
levels of success with that procedure and it certainly isn't officially
supported by fedora.org

FC-2 and FC-3 use the 2.6.x kernels and thus, quite a bit has changed
since FC-1 - if you are antsy, I would suggest that you download the
i386 iso's and install (upgrade) from the CD's. I would expect that FC-4
is still 2-3 months away yet.

Craig

[Ernie McCracken]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:00:21PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
>  FC-2 and FC-3 use the 2.6.x kernels and thus, quite a bit has
> changed
>  since FC-1 - if you are antsy, I would suggest that you download the
>  i386 iso's and install (upgrade) from the CD's. I would expect that FC-4
>  is still 2-3 months away yet. 
According to the preliminary FC4 schedule, FC4 GA will be approximately
May 16. 

http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/

[Duncan Lithgow]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 22:37 -0500, Dustin Hill wrote:
>  Hello all!  I'm new to linux and can't seem to find a real
> beginners 
>  guide anywhere, so I joined this list to see if I could get some help.  
>  I just installed FC1 and am wondering how to update it to FC3.  I'm 
>  hoping that I won't have to burn the .isos and reinstall everything 
>  again.  I've been on windows forever and have no real clue how to do 
>  anything in linux.  It took me two hours to figure out how to run 
>  up2date.  Any help/guidance will be kindly accepted.
>   
Another site which is good to start with is http://www.fedorafaq.org/
lots of basic questions answered.

Good worj getting this far - you'll really get to appreciate how much
more 'in control' you are with linux. I've switched nearly completely
just by fiddling over the last two months.

cheers, Duncan

(Hasn't got wine, iexplorer or java working - yet)