Fedora Core 3 - upgrade notes

[Eric Wood]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Some Things"
>  I got this message lots ... maybe 25 times during the whole install.
>  There's a button to retry however, and this is my point, there is no way
>  to SKIP the package.

Maybe this is a dma bug for particular chipsets.  I put together AMD Shuttle 
boxes, and get this very regularly with FC 1 and FC 2.  I just click retry 
and it keeps going.

I have installed FC 3 yet.  I would hope that they won't do that "dependency 
calculation" when I do a "Install Everything" install.  Why check 
dependencies when I'm installing everything??  I never understood that.

>  There are many screen mode changes as it switches to Kudzu.  It
> seems to have curses

I think this is an old issue because of the i18n internationalization 
causing the screen to flicker - go figure.

> - Why not merge the zip and unzip packages just like both gzip and
> gunzip are in the same package

I think it would be a good idea to start putting together large "CAB" files 
for the distro.  That way the whole system is on the drive but not 
neccessarily installed.  However, yum/rpm would have to be smart enough to 
*update* the cab file which would be a major advantage over M$soft's way.

I'm getting tired of swapping cd's whenever I could just copy over cab files 
and kickstart install from there.  I know there's ftp/http/iso loopback 
installs that kind of do this but they're to dependant on other stuff.

-eric wood