March 25

I've caught up with the hype and installed Fedora Core 5 (released March 20). Thanks to LUGS, the Averse mirror is back up. I lent my DVD to someone else, and so wrote the boot image to a thumb drive, booted from it and did a network installation from my other machine, on which I have mounted the DVD ISO on a webserver.

After a few false starts (not enough space for upgrade, cannot find repository data, etc), I finally got the installation process underway and went to sleep, and by morning, it was done! Not bad for 3-4 hours work.

Looking forward to trying out Xen on it. There is a lot to keep up with since much has changed since Redhat 9!!!

I'm getting keeping the filesystem of RH9 which I have painstakingly built-up over the months in a separate directory. I can chroot to the RH9 directory, mount proc, mount --bind /home ... and all should still be fine! I hope, since I have not tried it out.

Need to reinstall a lot of things, like updatedd, rlocate, etc, gosh.

Try out the OpenWRT source code! It is cool!