[WBEL-users] New install after up2date no keyboard

Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:52:37 -0500

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At 10:13 PM 12/30/2004, William Hooper wrote:

>Robert Moskowitz said:
> > At 07:31 PM 12/30/2004, William Hooper wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Robert Moskowitz said:
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >>> The first thing I did after establishing that the interfaces were
> >>> working was to run up2date (that really runs yum).
> >>
> >> No, it doesn't.  Yum and up2date are two separate programs that happen
> >> to be able to use the same package repos.
> >
> > I got this from the FAQ at whiteboxlinux.org
>
>Please quote it.  I'm not seeing it.

From:  http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/faq.html

How is WhiteBox Linux updated?

Obviously RHN isn't available as an option, so yum has been brought in from 
Fedora along with a version of up2date that can work with yum. So pick 
Up2Date Network from the menu and it basically "just works".

There are some issues though. There is still an initial panel which refers 
to rhn, but if you just click past that it doesn't actually try connecting 
to rhn. Another is that the current version of up2date doesn't support 
multiple repositories via yum and the default choice is the primary 
whiteboxlinux.org server. Since this machine has limited bandwidth you 
really should switch to a mirror. Edit /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources and 
comment out the two entries listing www.whiteboxlinux.org and uncomment the 
ones at ncsu. Once you run up2date the first time it will retrieve an 
update to itself, after which you can either keep the ncsu entry or pick a 
different mirror.

RHN Applet is included on the CD but is not installed because it doesn't 
work in this release. It may get fixed up by the first respin. No promises.

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I have Respin 1, and sources looked different than described above, so I 
just ignored the instructions to modify sources and I saw a change to the 
ncsa site go by.

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At 10:13 PM 12/30/2004, William Hooper wrote: 
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Robert Moskowitz said: 
&gt; At 07:31 PM 12/30/2004, William Hooper wrote: 
&gt; 
&gt; 
&gt;&gt; Robert Moskowitz said: 
&gt;&gt; [snip] 
&gt;&gt; 
&gt;&gt;&gt; The first thing I did after establishing that the interfaces
were 
&gt;&gt;&gt; working was to run up2date (that really runs yum). 
&gt;&gt; 
&gt;&gt; No, it doesn't.&nbsp; Yum and up2date are two separate programs
that happen 
&gt;&gt; to be able to use the same package repos. 
&gt; 
&gt; I got this from the FAQ at whiteboxlinux.org 
Please quote it.&nbsp; I'm not seeing it.</blockquote> 
From:&nbsp;
<a href="http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/faq.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/faq.html 
</a>How is WhiteBox Linux updated? 
Obviously RHN isn't available as an option, so yum has been brought in
from Fedora along with a version of up2date that can work with yum. So
pick Up2Date Network from the menu and it basically &quot;just
works&quot;. 
There are some issues though. There is still an initial panel which
refers to rhn, but if you just click past that it doesn't actually try
connecting to rhn. Another is that the current version of up2date doesn't
support multiple repositories via yum and the default choice is the
primary whiteboxlinux.org server. Since this machine has limited
bandwidth you really should switch to a mirror. Edit
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources and comment out the two entries listing
<a href="http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/" eudora="autourl">www.whiteboxlinux.org</a>
and uncomment the ones at ncsu. Once you run up2date the first time it will retrieve an update to itself, after which you can either keep the ncsu entry or pick a different mirror. 
RHN Applet is included on the CD but is not installed because it doesn't work in this release. It may get fixed up by the first respin. No promises. 
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I have Respin 1, and sources looked different than described above, so I just ignored the instructions to modify sources and I saw a change to the ncsa site go by. 
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