Anaconda is Awesome! How to force a network request with local media using kickstart
I sure love it when I solve my own problems, but the internets are a great help to enabling me. Today, I found myself needing to enable the network (using dhcp) from the anaconda command line (the part that says boot: when you load a CentOS/RHEL/Fedora install disk). I needed this because I was providing [...]
In: Fedora, Guru, Install, Tech, Yum · Tagged with: anaconda, asknetwork, centos, dhcp, kickstart, network, repo, Yum
Fedora Classroom: Sessions this Weekend
So, we’ve been slacking. Probably the economy. Or maybe it was FUDCon aftermath. Maybe, just maybe, we were in fact, just lazy. I don’t know…..but!! It’s time again for the Fedora Classroom!! If you aren’t familiar with the Fedora Classroom IRC sessions, we hold them about once a month in #fedora-classroom in irc.freenode.net. This month’s [...]
In: Classes, Community, Fedora, Tech · Tagged with: classroom, f11, Fedora, i18n, irc, rpm, Yum
Yum Update: 482:07
As I usually do while teaching class, I installed a Fedora 8 machine, and ran yum update. Today I noticed a strange amount of time for one particular download: While this is hilarious, its shouldn’t happen. Any ideas? I know it didn’t take 28927 seconds (or about 1/3 of a day) to download that foomatic [...]
In: Fedora, Rants, Tech, Yum · Tagged with: bugs, Fedora, Yum
Werewolf (Fedora 8) Upgrade in 3 Easy Steps Using yum
Recently, there was a request in one of my comments on this post. The request was for an easy way to upgrade from Fedora 7 to Fedora 8. So I took this on as a bit of a challenge. I feel pretty comfortable with yum and I thought it would be a good and easy [...]
In: Fedora, Guru, Install, Releases, Tech, Tools, Yum · Tagged with: Fedora, update, upgrade, werewolf, Yum
Thoughts on the Fedora Upgrade – Part 1
So its been a whole two days since I upgraded to Werewolf. I love it! Most everything works out of the box (OOTB), wireless, bluetooth, even suspend/resume seem to be possible for the first time! But one of the oddities I encountered while upgrading was the names of the packages. Mind you, this is just [...]
In: Fedora, Install, Releases, Tech · Tagged with: f8, packages, rawhide, rpm, upgrade, werewolf, Yum
POW: Yum installation by groups
The second in the Program of the Week (POW) is here. Yum, the Yellowdog Updater Modifer, has a very interesting feature. One which you might find useful if you want to install an entire set of packages for say a new “Windows File Server”. Yum provides this feature right out of the box these days, [...]
In: Fedora, Guru, Install, POW, Tech, Tools, Yum · Tagged with: Fedora, groupinfo, groupinstall, grouplist, POW, Yum
POW: bash-completion – Bash Auto Completion in Fedora using yum (and more)
In an attempt to consistently blog, I am starting a new series here on fedora-tutorials.com. Program of the Week (POW). Hopefully, this will excite and inform all of us about the cool programs available in Fedora. So see you next Wednesday for another program. Over the past year or so, I’ve been on the hunt [...]
