up2date is slow in general. Open up a terminal and use yum, it's slightly faster. When I installed Fedora, I was missing the gpg keyrings of the Fedora folks, so up2date would stop on every package to ask if it was ok to install...that plus the slow server made it very annoying. Importing the GPG keys (which are lurking in /usr/share/doc if I'm not mistaken) helps alot, but up2date is still painfully slow. There are many a link out there. I collected many from this list: http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/ http://rpm.livna.org/ http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/ http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/yum_HOWTO.php http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/yum_article.php http://www.jdmz.net/yum/ www.fedorazine.com www.fedoranews.org Plenty of helpful stuff there :) Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://www.ringworld.org A password is like your underwear; Change it frequently, don't share it with others, and don't ask to borrow someone else's. On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Chris Schumann wrote: | I got a copy of Microsoft's VirtualPC 2004 yesterday and installed it on a | Windows XP Pro computer at home. It currently only supports Windows 2000 | or later as a host OS now. But if someone can tell me how to get video | editing, DVD burning and HDTV viewing done in Linux, I'm more than happy | to listen! | | I then installed Fedora Core 1 on it. Rather, I'm in the midst of that. | | It's gone pretty easily so far. You tell it you want a new virtual | machine, running "Other" for an OS, set up its virtual hard disk (a file | on the host machine), put in a bootable CD and click Start. | | The virtual machine starts, and you get a BIOS screen. It's a little | startling to see a BIOS from another brand than what's in the machine, let | alone in a window on the desktop, but you get used to that. | | The CD boots and Fedora begins its installation. I set it to automatically | partition and install the Workstation software suite. The VM reports a | generic S3 (I think) video card to the BIOS, and Fedora's graphics seem to | work OK. | | One strange thing is that installation took a very long time. Like over | two hours long. The CPU was idle most of the time, so I'm chalking this up | to inefficient CD-ROM emulation layers so far. | | After installation and a re-boot, I logged in and ran /sbin/ifconfig. | | Another thing new to this person who's never run VM software before was | seeing a new virtual network card, with some made-up MAC address get an IP | address from my DHCP server. So now my machine has two IP addresses. | | The first thing I tried to do was update the system with up2date. So far | it's taken several hours because the site hosting updates is so glacial. | | If anyone has tips on speeding that process, I'd be very grateful. | | I also installed FreeDOS on another VM, then quickly added Quake for DOS. | It seems to work, except for sound. Sound also does not work in Fedora as | of yet. | | If there's interest, I'll post more as I do more. | | Chris Schumann | | | _______________________________________________ | TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota | http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org | https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list | | | !DSPAM:404e1755163682027844886! | | _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list