Fedora 10 Snap 3 Install And Update Success

[Robert L Cochran]

Following my earlier post on Fedora 10 Snapshot 3, I obtained a new external USB hard drive and dedicated the entire thing to an install of snapshot 3. I had a flawless installation experience: I extracted and wrote the boot.iso image to a CD, used that to boot the laptop and proceeded to do an HTTP install. The idea is to connect the drive to my powered USB hub which is in turn connected to my Dell Latitude D420 laptop. I encrypted the installation. When did the first boot, password prompt came up for decrypting the hard drive, then the firstboot code ran, then my monitor went blank. It might be because this was on an external monitor connected to the laptop. I didn't think of that possibility at the time and simply turned the laptop off and then on again. Fedora booted fine, although there were two messy blue and white bars on the bottom of the external monitor.

Ran yum, got 494 Mb worth of updates, rebooted. So far I can at least log in and open a terminal and work from the command line, which I think is great. 

Thanks

Bob Cochran
Greenbelt, Maryland