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

[Jan Depner]

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 17:53 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 09:57 -0600, Jan Depner wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 13:21 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > > 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
> > 
> >    Thanks!  That cleared that part up.  Now when I try to get the kernel
> > I get:
> > 
> > [root@eviltwin apt]# apt-get -o RPM::Install-Options::=--oldpackage
> > install planetccrma-core
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > E: Couldn't find package planetccrma-core
> > 
> > 
> > Am I just not reading the instructions correctly?
> 
> No, it's me that keeps forgetting to update them for fc4, darn, try:
>  apt-get install planetccrma-core-edge
> 
> -- Fernando
> 

    Outstanding!!!  It works!  Now, hopefully, just one more thing
before I start getting the applications.  I'll need the kernel source
since I'll be running NVIDIA's display driver.  Can you clue me in on
where that is?

    Of course, after that I'll have to figure out how to get
low-latency, real-time operation with this kernel ;-)

    Many thanks Fernando, I hope you know what a great resource the
Planet is for the rest of us out here.  You're making our lives
amazingly easier.  If there's ever anything I can do to help you out
(documentation, testing, etc) just let me know.


-- 
Jan 'Evil Twin' Depner
The Fuzzy Dice
http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/fuzzy.html


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