On Tue, 4 May 2004, Peter J. Mignone wrote:

Hi All: My name is Peter J. Mignone and I have a little Linux experience. From what I have read about CentOS, it appears very interesting so I am trying it out.

Welcome

I get a header.info error when I tried yum which I have never used. How do you set up yum? Where do you point it, etc.?

If you did a CD based install, it should already be installed and configured properly -- is your network interface up, and does it have access to a working DNS and outside connectivity?

If my understanding is correct about the licensing, I should turn off anything pertaining to the Red Hat Network. Is there anything else that should be removed?

Nothing sould should be accessing Red Hat corporate restricted resources -- if you find a usage pattern in the install which does, it is a bug and we wish to fix it; a bugzilla (which is the Open Source way of tracking issues) is available at: http://bugzilla.caosity.org/ to receive reports.

Is there any restrictions on rpm for Red Hat enterprise. In other words, If I find a rpm on say rpmfind.net for red hat could it be used?

You may be confusing rpm (the package manager) and the content rpms (binary packagings of applications and so forth) -- using rpmfind.net is probably not the best way to proceed -- if you have a need which is not in the add-ons, please mention it on this mailing list, and it will probably get built for you on a centos-31 native environment.

that said, as to content which is provided through the CentOS subproject of the cAos meta-project, there will be no such restriction.

As you get more comfortable with source packages, it is possible to do this yourself -- the IRC channels mentioned at the website are full of prople to assist in a knowledge transfer and empowerment of this type.

-- Russ Herrold