FC2 T1 Installation notes: xorg, kernel 2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1, nVidia TNT

[Timothy Sandel]

"yum remove XFree86*" deleted gnome as well.  I guess I should have have
played around with --exclude's but I really wanted XFree to be GONE so I
let yum do it's thing.

Timothy

On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 15:55, André S. wrote:
> why "10. yum install gnome*" ??
> downgrade??
> 
> Em Qua, 2004-03-24 às 15:02 -0600, Timothy Sandel escreveu: 
> > Here's my story on installation...
> > 
> > 1. Signed up for the fedora-test-list and tracked the list for a couple
> > of days to get a feel for what I was up against.
> > 2. Installed FC1 on my Dell Optiplex.
> > 3. Copied the four ISO's for FC2-T1 to the hard drive (hda2).
> > 4. Did a cdrom boot from the FC2-T1 iso and performed a HD drive
> > installation.
> > 5. Custom install of about 3gb of the software.
> > 6. Changed yum.conf to point to a lesser used mirror.
> > 7. yum remove XFree86*
> > 8. yum install xorg*
> > 9. Changed the XF86Config to use the nv driver.  I have an ATI Mach64
> > video built-in on my Dell and an nvidia tnt add-on card.
> > 10. yum install gnome*
> > 11. yum update kernel*
> > 12. Made the mouse0 change to /dev/mouse and XF86Config suggested here
> > on the list as the mouse quit working.
> > 
> > Results:
> > Working FC2-T1 with xorg X11 (1600x1200 @ 24bit), Gnome, kernel
> > 2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1.
> > 
> > Great work folks!  Really fairly painless for TEST linux.  Now off to
> > start playing with some of those apps.
> > 
> > timothy at titan.stcl.edu
> > 
> > 
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