Desktop upgrade

The other day I finally broke down and gave in; I rebuilt my desktop computer (for something like the 50th time). This time, unlike last time, I decided to do a clean install, which seems to work a lot better than an upgrade; at lest in Fedora Core. All went well, but I must say I miss some of the flexibility in FC6 when it came to package installs.

But then came the glitch. After the install came the reboot; which FAILED! It seems that the DVD that I was using, obtained from Linux Magazine (http://linux-magazine.com/) a UK based magazine, some how decided to not use the correct hardware address for my root partition. The partition that I has set up was on hd0,0 where as the grub config file had hd1,0; last time I checked I was not using a CD-ROM as my /boot partition. Thankfully this is an easy fix. I popped in my Knoppix DVD, umounted hda3(?) and re-mounted it with read/write and edited the file by hand.

This does worry me a bit, I have used Linux for a while now, something like 7 years; and the fact that I also have a glorious job as a Solaris Admin. But the not so experienced user is likely to give up right then and there, pop goes in the XP CD. Just my quick thoughts.

None the less I do like FC7, it works quite nice, even if I am still messing around with what to use, there is 7 "Media players" and a few other packages that will play many formats as well.