[RULE] Interesting laptop install; upgrading to Gnome etc

[Philip Rhoades]

People,

I finally got around to testing slinky v0.5 with FC3 on a PIII 450MHz  
laptop.  As an exercise I thought I would do an NFS install from a RH9  
machine's CD drive not realising I wouldn't get prompted to change CDs  
like that.  Anyway the minimal install still seemed to work even though  
it missed a few (X?) things from CD2 but I couldn't get the laptop to  
boot.

So I just went to a straight FC3 install from the laptop's CD drive but  
it failed on CD3 (I think) with an anaconda error message.

So then I tried a slinky install using the local CD and that worked  
fine.  I then tried to upgrade to a full Gnome environment by manually  
installing the extra rpms.  I think I have installed everything that  
would be necessary but I can't get the desktop to come up - although I  
can run xinit and twm and get a basic environment.

Is there a convenient way to add more packages to a basic slinky  
install?

Thanks,

Phil.
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