FC5 Pukes on my machine

Tue May 9 02:10:01 UTC 2006

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 01:32:07AM +0000, Merv Curley wrote:
>I installed it and have apparently only Gnome which I do not appreciate.  I 

all of kde base is on the standard fc5 dvd. the rest is in fedora extras.

>cannot see a way to statically configure my ethernet card and LAN addresses. 

system-config-* are your friend. system-config-network in this particular case.

>Nor do I see any obvious ways of installing KDE.

the easiest way is to eg.
  yum install koffice kyum k3b ...
which'll download those apps from a yum mirror and automatically drag in all
the dependancies with it... or you can try and optimise things and
rpm -Uvh a file of rpms off the fc5 dvd...
as .ca is blessed with decent broadband I'd prob stick with the former.

>My problem is I have been using Debian derivitives far too long and have lost 
>any appreciation of Fedora, Mandriva and SuSE it seems. The magazine has 
>supplied all with the past few issues
>
>Is it going to be as difficult to use as it now seems?

not nearly as difficult as it is for a fedora use to use debian :)

cheers,
robin
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