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just a note about the Nvidia comment. I use Fedora and update the kernel 
and Nvidia both via apt-get and it couldn't get easier. Don't you get 
your Nvidia driver via apt-get?

jb wrote:

>I selected repositories of earlier versions of redhat to see what apps were 
>there. I was surprised there were so many but there weren't any of interest 
>to me. Resetting the apt repositories back to redhat 9, I noticed it started 
>fresh at getting the rpm headers similar to using
>apt-get install -f
>which flushes the headers.
>I don't recommend using atrpms as a repository unless you try using the 
>at-stable list, but I didn't have any luck with those. Here are the 
>repositories I'm using for RH9 which are working great.
>rpm http://apt.sw.be/ redhat/9/en/i386 DAG
>rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net/ redhat/9/i386 freshrpms
>rpm http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/ redhat/en/i386/9.0 newrpms
>rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net/ redhat/9/i386 OS updates
>The new kernel ( kernel#2.4.20-31.9 ) for rh9 was a snap to install. I wish 
>the Nvidia driver was that easy to recompile.
>I tried YUM but it wasn't as good and seemed slower compared to apt.
>Anyone using other repositories with luck for rh9 and apt?
>I'm also using rsync to keep the apt cache of rpms on my other HD along with 
>an rsync of /home. A full system recovery is just a matter of loading 
>everything back. I was going to make the rsync a cron job but it is so fast I 
>would rather run it when I can keep an eye on it so I just su and copy paste 
>when ever I feel itchy.
>updatedb -v
>rsync -avz --delete /var/cache/apt/archives/ /store/aptgetrpms/
>rsync -avz --delete /home/ /store/homebackup1/
>If anyone has anything to add please feel free, any info or opinions are 
>greatly appreciated...
>THX
>JEB
>www.mesimpleton.com
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