[PlanetCCRMA] New user; FC3 or FC4? Slowly getting there

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 09:02 -0600, Jan Depner wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 15:25 +0100, Paquita wrote:
> > Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > 
> > >The only major advantage I see in FC3 is the availability of cdrom
> > >images which I have not recreated yet for FC4 (but FC4 has a full blown
> > >"all included" install dvd - experimental, of course). If you don't need
> > >them you could go with FC4. For the current status of the FC4 packages
> > >as compared to FC3 see:
> > >  http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/fc4buildstatus.html
> > >  
> > >
> > >
> > [Sorry Fernando for polluting you mailbox with my earlier replies, I had 
> > missed the Reply-to-Sender setting of the list]
> > 
> > To sum up:
> > - following your advice and Matt Marian's, I installed FC4.
> > - then I failed to find the planetccrma-core package in the repos, so I 
> > tried planetccrma-core-edge.
> > - after rebooting, I got a kernel panic.
> > - I then searched more with apt-cache, and found and installed 
> > kernel-2.6.12-0.9.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma.i686.rpm, which I hope is the right 
> > non-edge kernel.
> 
>     You're doing better than I am.  I just loaded FC4, got the latest
> and greatest apt stuff, modified the sources.list file to say 4 instead
> of 2 (since I couldn't find a link for a FC 4 specific sources.list),
> and I get the following:
> 
> [root@eviltwin ~]# apt-get update
> Get:1 http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/4/i386 release [1618B]
> Fetched 1618B in 1s (987B/s)
> Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/4/i386/core pkglist
> Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/4/i386/core release
> Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/4/i386/updates pkglist
> Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/4/i386/updates release
> Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/4/i386/planetccrma pkglist
> Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/4/i386/planetccrma release
> Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/4/i386/planetcore pkglist
> Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/4/i386/planetcore release
> Err http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/4/i386/planetccrma srclist
>   404 Not Found

I don't have the source packages in the repository as they are common to
all the distros (sorry, I know I could fix this somehow...) They can be
found at:
  http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/all/linux/SRPMS/

If you comment out the src line, the rest should work (hopefully)

-- Fernando

> Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/4/i386/core pkglist
> Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/4/i386/core release
> Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/4/i386/updates pkglist
> Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/4/i386/updates release
> Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/4/i386/planetccrma pkglist
> Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/4/i386/planetccrma release
> Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/4/i386/planetcore pkglist
> Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/4/i386/planetcore release
> Failed to fetch
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt/fedora/4/i386/base/srclist.planetccrma  404 Not Found
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> W: Release file did not contain checksum information for
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt/fedora/4/i386/base/srclist.planetccrma
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
> ones used instead.