Author: pankaj

I’ve decided to take the plunge and try rolling my own Linux distribution based on Redhat’s Fedora Core 3. I’m including many thirdparty RPMs from Fedora RPM services like FreshRPMS, DAG, ATRpms, and jpackage as well as some customized applications that i’ve been playing with. It’s been very interesting reading and learning exactly how to…

Well, it looks like there’s either something wacky with my hardware. After 11 tries, I could not get the Fedora Core 3 installation done on my Dell Dimension. I had to revert to some old Redhat 8 CDs I had, install a basic installation on a tiny partition and manully add a reference to boot…

Wow…I have never tried 7 straight installations of any OS before. I wound up needing to re-install Fedora Core 3 on my Dell Dimension at home and reinstalled it 7 times. Each of those seven times, the installation went fine, but the boot loader wouldn’t install. I’m presuming that FC3 has a bug and can’t…

Another FC2 -> FC3 upgrade I just upgraded my FC2 desktop to FC3 and again, absolutely smooth!! This time, I didn’t even have the problem of evolution not migrating my 1.4 data over to 2.0. Also, I like the way evolution 1.4 looked, felt, and worked. I know there are tons of RSS/ATOM feed agregators…

After a bit more playing with my upgraded laptop, I found that not all my FC2 packages were upgraded. I tried opening OpenOffice Writer and found that it wouldn’t start. After getting various library errors and checking the RPMs, I saw that the RPMs were old FC2 RPMs. I made sure yum was setup correctly…