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<p>On Mon, 31 May 2010 17:58:04 -0400, Abdur-Rahman Morgan
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:arm@tearms.org"><arm@tearms.org></a> wrote:</p>
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Patrick,<br>
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The regular kernel-libre-headers should be acceptable. As I believe
that if your laptop had more than 4GB of RAM and you were running a
32-bit system that did not recognize it, then an libre PAE kernel would
be necessary. What are you thoughts on F13? I tried the pre-upgrade and
had some issues with the recognizing the kickstart and install.img
being found under /var/cache/yum/* which led me to run the install
manually via URL. It worked fine, but I prefer the BLAG-Alpha. <br>
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tearms<br>
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I connected the system to a wired connection and it successfully did
the upgrade. One thing to note is that before the system boots into
anaconda to do the preupgrade, you do have the ability to access grub
and boot into F12 if you need to save and back up your files before
doing a fresh install of F13.<br>
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<p>I tried to preupgrade from BLAG Alpha to Fedora 13 which failed.
The preupgrade application determined all needed packages, downloaded
them all and complained about too little space in /boot (Fedora 13
installs by default /boot with 500MB, details here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade</a>). It could continue but it
would require a wired internet connection after reboot. The system
rebooted and during installation it crashed with a message telling me
it couldn't continue. It left me with a laptop that is lacking an
installation.</p>
<p>So I did a clean install that went flawless.</p>
<p>After installing, I went through all installed packages and made a
list of the things I wanted to remove. This list combined with the
anaconda-ks.cfg will result in a personalised kickstart file. One
problem I encountered is the problem that nautilus doesn't remember the
window settings (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508112">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508112</a>).
It can be solved easily, but it is something to put in the documents.</p>
<p>But in general, F13 looks good and solid. I have replaced the
Fedora kernel by the ones Alexandre made and it runs smooth.</p>
<p>Next I will install F13 on a system that has a NVIDIA card to see
how the Nouveau driver will handle it (info on Nouveau here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/">http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/</a>).</p>
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<p>Regards,</p>
<p>patrickm</p>
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