[ldm-users] Fedora 7 Installs

[Gerry Creager]

Dan Vietor wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 14:08 -0500, Michael Allen wrote:
>> This is an interesting topic, especially because I'm preparing to 
>> install Fedora 7 here, too.
>>
>> Is there a particular preferred installation method?  If so, what is it?
> 
> Fedora 7 only comes on DVD even though I've seen some references to 
> rehashed CD ISOs out there.  You can put the ISO image on a web or FTP 
> server and have it install that way if you don't have a DVD drive.
> 
> My experience with upgrades have come with very mixed reviews.  Up until 
> Core 5, an upgrade usually was inserting CDs and rebooting.  But with 
> Core 6 and now with 7, upgrades mean you have a partially running system 
> when you're done.  If you know how to get yourself out of RPM purgatory, 
> then you can get the system back to running order.  But this is only for 
> experienced admins.
> 
> My recommendation is that Linux has now gotten to the point where 
> upgrades are just not feasible.  There are too many packages, too many 
> hardware configurations and too many options to do upgrades.  My horror 
> on going from Core 6 to 7 confirmed this.  I now believe reinstall is 
> the only realistic option.  I won't do an upgrade for other Fedora systems.
> 
> When I install a Linux system, I do a manual partition with a 5GB "/var" 
> or larger for web servers, a 10GB "/" for the OS and the rest of the 
> disk in "/home".  This means you can reload without blowing everything 
> away.  I just reformat the "/" and "/var" partitions and then all your 
> data remains.

I still prefer two physical volumes.  I usually keep /usr/local on the 
2nd (and larger) volume along with /home, /share and /opt.  I can 
obliterate the system physical volume and reinstall and recover /home, 
and the others, in short order.  FC4 caused me to go back to this.  I 
had done it religiously before WindowsNT turned me into an agnostic.

gerry
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