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Please pm me with the measures for acquiring Fedora 7 I'd like to move from fedora core 6 to Fedora 7.
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Following
XavierP's suggestion, here's what I did:
1) Downloaded the FC7 Live CD (KDE version, becuse I prefer KDE) and burned it to an blank CD
2) Booted it and clicked on the "install from CD" button on the screen
3) Set up the YUM repositories (including
livna-development since I've got a nVidia graphics card)
4) Installed the
kmod-nvidia driver from
livna-development
5) Installed the
fedorakmod YUM pluging (and several others)
6) Ran
yum update
Notes:
1) The
install from CD may get confused if you use "non-standard" LVM values. (I set my LV name to
FC7 and the VG names to
Base and
Swap, but
mkinitrd created an initial RAM disk that mounted my FC6 LV (
Fedora-Base) instead of
FC7-Base. This is easily fixed by editing the
init nash file in the
initrd compressed image, but be warned.)
2) The
test release FC7 versions are
not intended for production use and will, generally,
run much slower then the production release. This is because the test releases are from the
development tree, and have lots of the debugging code included, which can really slow thing down.
Bottom line: Unless you're into "bleeding edge" stuff, wait for the production release which should be available towards the end of May.
