[brlug-newbies] Fedora (Core?) 6

[k5mke at bellsouth.net]

Many Thank Tim,

As soon as I can burn the MP3's I have to CD's, I'm going to reformat both the 40 gig 
and 80 gig Maxtor HD's and start over with clean installs.

The 80 gig, I decided, will get the Fedora 6.  This hopefully will allow me to start over
on my MP3 collection, with the proper P-2-P program.....Limewire isn't it.  I had nothing
but trouble getting it to work with Xandros.  It crashed or hung the computer up all the
time.  :-(

On the WIN 2k side, I had about 20 gigs of MP3's, but could not get any "burner" prog,
including WIN Media Player 9 to work.

The MP3's will be for MY listening enjoyment ONLY.  I'm not going to make 'pirate CD's'
even for my grandson, LOL!  I don't listen to his kind of music anyway.

Once I get Fedora 6 started on the install, I'll pay closer attention to what it says and 
see if I can see what you said about "adding/removing" the packages and what each
does.  One thing that will help is to read through that Fedora 6 "Bible" and see if it
explains it better.  I know I'll need a print server (I think) as I will want to print out my 
scanner & ham contact databases.  But, as far as the rest...Samba, Apache, etc. I'm
not really sure.  At present, I'm on HellSouth, LOL!   They won't let me set up a web
server of any kind, as I am on their sorry DSL and at the end of the CO.  :-(

The 40 gig HD will become an WIN XP drive for my 13 year old grandson for him to to
school homework, research papers and play games.  I may also put AOL on there for
him to chat, but only in Kid's AOL Rooms......NO MYSPACE or YouTube.....Numa Numa,
LOL!

I'll keep y' all posted as to my "progress".

Again, thanks for the help.

Respectfully,

Donald
> 
> From: Tim Fournet <tfournet at tfour.net>
> Date: 2007/04/09 Mon PM 02:16:12 EDT
> To: "A list devoted to newbies that want to discuss Linux!" <newbies at brlug.net>
> Subject: Re: [brlug-newbies] Fedora (Core?) 6
> 
> 
> Hello, Donald
> The default Fedora Core 6 installer does give the option to choose 
> packages based on intended use of your system, customized groups of 
> packages, or even customizing the individual packages to install. It's 
> possible that the CDs you used that came with a book were customized to 
> not give you the choices, but that would be strange.
> 
> In any event, you can manage the packages that are installed on your 
> system by clicking on 'Add/Remote Software' in the Applications menu. 
> Packages are organized in groups, so you can drill down and make choices 
> about what to keep or remove, and there's a description of each package 
> when you click on it. The tool also gives you the ability to search for 
> new or updated packages from online repositories so you can add software 
> to your system.
> 
> If you have any more troubles, please post them here!
> -Tim
> 
> 
> k5mke at bellsouth.net wrote:
> > Good Morning, All,
> >
> > I have decided to give up on Xandros Linux.  I'm not having much luck in gettting it to work
> > as I wish.  I was encouraged by some others to TRY Fedora 6.  I purchased the "Fedora 6
> > and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bible" by Christopher Negus.
> >
> > Bad sign #1: The CD's did not allow me to "install" it on a 15 gig Maxtor drive and the CD's
> > were 'defective'.  I do not have a DVD player or writer on this machine..1.2 gig Athlon/1 gig
> > of 133mhz RAM.
> >
> > I did manage to sercure the 5 CD set to "Core 6", but it only required I believe 2 CD's of 
> > that to install it (?).
> >
> > Bad sign #2:  It did not allow me to pick the "pkgs" I wanted and installed EVERYTHING!
> >
> > Being new at this, I'm not sure I'm ever going to need all the "servers" it loaded.  All I'm 
> > really interested in is doing antenna designs (research & building), storing some Space
> > photo's, and storing my MP3 music to play in the background (like a juke box) while I'm
> > working or just as a music machine.
> >
> > Any suggestions as to HOW I can eliminate or keep to a minimum what packages I'll
> > need?
> >
> > Respectfully, submitted,
> >
> > Donald
> >
> >
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