First date

[Tammy Fox]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 08:34:37PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> So here comes my impressions on my first date with this Core
> thing:
> 
> 
>   * I decided not to install all packages, then I found that I
> cannot select individual ones.  So I tried adding packages from
> the add/remove program.  Then I selected my packages, and tried
> to install them, when found that:

I was able to select individual packages during installation by
clicking the Details button.

> 	a) /dev/cdrom is pointed to /dev/hdc, this used to work
> on previous Red Hats, but this time I had to calibrate it to
> point to /dev/scd0.
> 	b) Even after that, the add/remove program cannot find
> the CD there, and keeps asking for CD.  When I mount the CD, and
> press Ok in the dialog, I find it unmounted..

I ran into the same problem, so I filed bug #105947.

> 	c) I even couldn't copy/paste the list of selected
> packages, so I wrote them down by hand, to feed them to up2date.
> 
> 
>   * Then I proceeded with up2date, to install some new packages.
> Then I got the following weird error.  Someone let me know if I'm
> getting faked packages?
> 
> Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
> ########################################
> apel-10.6-1.noarch.rpm:     ########################## Done.
> The package apel-10.6-1 is not signed with a GPG signature.
> Aborting...
> Package apel-10.6-1 does not have a GPG signature.
>  Aborting...
> 
> 
>   * Bitstream-vera fonts are installed, but are not default.  It
> was really hard to read the other fonts, after two months with
> vera fonts from Ximian.  I took me a while to findout that they
> are installed, and are available under name Bitstream Vera, not
> Vera.
> 
>   * Many many places here and there, there are still Red Hat's,
> that should be replaced by Fedora equivalents.  One funny example
> is the Login Screen chooser which has the thumbnail from Red Hat 9.
> 
>   * Cool thing, DRI works!
> 
>   * Nothing more yet.
> 
> behdad
> 
> 
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