Subject: Re: XFree86 4.1 bad & re-intsall & "man yup"
From: perry (pm_perry@pacbell.net)
Date: Sun Jul 01 2001 - 18:38:54 MDT
Hi Jason,
On the "everything" re-install, you should be aware that you must start over
from scratch. That is, you must delete old partitions and create new ones,
otherwise the install will crash in the end everytime. (That goes for any
re-install--home, workstation, whatever.)
As for yup, you can type "man yup" at a terminal window to get the syntax and
options.
Should be something like "yup update" to update everything, but when I tried
days ago, the server was busy and the mirror network wasn't set up yet. Anyone
know the current status?
What video card do you have?
[As for documentation, I agree, TS/YDL doesn't do hardcopy. But what would it
be? 1000+ pages? If Terrasoft prospers, perhaps they could do what Redhat
does and offer a 150 page Installation Guide, and 300 page "Getting Started
Guide"? As it stands, they've succeeded in making it easier than ever to
install Linux on a Mac. In the meantime, when you do get things running, you
can print out manuals....]
regards,
perry phillips
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Jason Gan wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Iain Stevenson wrote:
>
> >
> > Maybe you should build the latest XFree86 4.1 - it's better for me
> > (9600/200, Rage Orion) than earlier versions. First check whether your
> > video card is supported on the XFree86 web site here:
> >
> > http://xfree86.org/4.1.0/Status.html
> >
> > The build is fairly straightforward but you need to make sure X is
> > configured to build the device driver you need. I posted my experience to
> > the list.
> >
> > Iain
> >
>
> The build is not very straightforward. I attempted to install it over my
> system and when trying to xconfig (last step), it dumped the core. Yellow
> Dog Linux does not have libncurses.so.4, so I suppose I shouldn't have tried
> to install something that I knew would fail.
> Unfortunately I don't have a backup, and since I don't have a user manual
> (Yellow Dog only provided an installation guide), I don't know how to use
> the system from the console.
> So I have been trying to reinstall Linux from the original CD, and now I
> have to try to download all the software to get it back to the state where I
> want it. Turns out that the Everything installation takes about 1hr on my
> 400MHz G4. (The installation crashed twice, and I thought it was taking more
> than 3hrs to install but Linux was actually frozen.)
> I have yet to figure out how yup update works, as there is no user manual or
> web site to show me how it works. There is not much confidence in the
> system, is there.
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