Hi,
I have installed FC5 from DVD onto a partition on a laptop for dual boot. It is the first time another OS has been put on this laptop. Once the media check and install was complete I then tried to update things using pup. Is that OK or did I misunderstand what it does? After more than an hour or so on broadband I worried that it was downloading the entire distribution again so I stopped it. It promised to forget what I’d done so I did “yum update”, this went quite quickly but then it wanted to install a key for sound juicer?! I let it and it seemed to take forever - so I left it to run overnight. In the morning the download was finished so I rebooted. The boot screen now has two versions of FC5 to boot from. I’d assumed the download would update the earlier installation so I don’t understand why I now have a triple boot rather than dual boot option. Can anyone explain what has happened, if I did something wrong? I thought the update would be much faster, say 15 minutes or half an hour, as happened when I tried fc4 on another machine some months back. The installation I went for was fairly conservative, only server installed is SMB. No development tools were installed. So I don’t see why updates are so lengthy. Also it seems odd that there is no sign of the much advertised f-spot or new note taking facility. Finally I have a screen capable of 1024x768, but gnome screen resolution options only go up to 800X600. I tried editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf with a suitable entry but it didn’t seem to help.
Thanks
Jacek

Are you sure you have 2 FC5 installations? Or is it just 2 kernels? When you run yum update it will install a new kernel without deleting the old, just in case! It gives you 2 grub entries for FC5, one the old kernel the other the new. I usually leave 2 on there, once a third comes along I remove the oldest.
As for the display, did FC5 identify your momitor? go to display settings, click on hardware, configure, and see where it's set. If you can't find your actual monitor try a generic setting at your resolution. But first might be an idea to back up xorg.conf so you can swap it back in terminal mode if X fails.

Thanks Decrepit
I guess it is a second kernel - I hope they don't come too often, I just want to use the thing not keep nursing it!

As for the monitor, none of the resolution settings / hardware settings respond. I've downloaded a driver from intel (82852/82855 Graphics Controller Family) and tried to install it without any success. I opted for the rpm version and did my best to follow some vague instructions I turfed up for turning off X server before install. Doesn't seem to have worked though.
Jacek

may not help you, but ifixed my monitor problems by going to thousands of colours instead of millions, for some reason that allowed a higher resolution.

Unfortunately that didn't work on my computer. I may make a fresh thread specifically on this point.