I am currently on my second install of Fedora Core 1. Instead of trying to write about this now, I will wait until I have completed the setup and the updates. The first install failed after I updated some packages and I guess I am not the only one.

Instead of trying to figure out a solution, which so many people have failed to do, I decided to start again and keep track of what I update. Stay tuned, see the updates by following the link below.

update I: it has been running all night trying to download some updates. When I went to bed last night, it was trying to download a package at 7kb — yes, SEVEN! — the bad thing is that the applet will not refresh itself if you load something on top of it so now, I can’t even see what it is downloading. grr.

update II: I left up2date running last night when I went to bed and when I went to work this morning. When I came back this afternoon, the process of downloading new updates WAS NOT complete. I was seeing download rates as low as 7kb/sec. I just changed the repository location (where up2date and yum download the new packages) to point to a local mirror and things are going much faster now. Download packages at ~90kb/sec things should be done in just a few minutes. The saga continues…

update III: I just might have to start all over again.