[NTLUG:Discuss] Gaim werked fer me!

[David D. Scribner]

lonny.dahl at verizon.com [lonny.dahl at verizon.com] wrote:
> I actually had Gaim working on my computer at home.  That is, until I
> completely hosed my system attempting to upgrage to KDE 3.2.  Since that
> happened, I've attempted to upgrage to FC2, but couldn't get it to
> upgrade...so I attempted to do a fresh install (I had saved off as much
> backup as I could before attempting it) and every time, the install just
> aborts after it's gone far enough to blow away what was left of my system.
> I don't know if it's related to hardware or maybe that I have some bad
> discs (I downloaded and burned FC2 before the attempt).  The discs passed
> the media evaluation before install (my 2nd disc failed media eval, so I
> redownloaded and burned it and it tested ok 2nd time around).

I, too, had a devil of a time upgrading a system to FC2. After each
failed attempt, I concluded that I just didn't have enough free space
on my partitions to accomodate the install, and would try to shave a bit
more from other partitions and go at it again. In the end, as this was a
dual-boot laptop, I found that I had to basically wipe my previous RH 7.3
install, cut the FAT32 partition to bare minimum (never used it anyway,
but have to keep it for the occasional visits to clients that might
require it), and increase the ext partition sizes by about 50% or more,
then finally restore the data that I had backed up to my server.

In all, I must have spent a full weekend and a week of evenings to get
it all going again more or less like I had it with 7.3. Of course,
there's still some "gotchas" that I haven't deduced what the problem is
(every once in a while the wheelmouse's pointer goes beserk, but at
least that works now... it didn't previously, and the screensaver kicks
in sometimes "way before its time").

Some things of course required some manual edits because I went to a new
major version of an app (apache, samba, gkrellm, xchat, etc.). Anyway,
FC2 has some nice things about it, and I find that it's not really much,
if any, slower on the 300 MHz Celeron when compared to the RH 7.3 that
was on it (which started its GNU/Linux life with RH 5.1), although there
was a good bit of fragmentation on my /home and /var partitions (so a
fresh install did the /var good, and a clean restore of /home took care
of that), so I'm sure that contributed to a bit of the slowness it had
under 7.3 and therefore a clean install of both would undoubtedly
provide more accurate benchmarks.

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