Re: I had high hopes for FC5, damn...

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On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 23:55 -0600, clemens@xxxxxxx wrote:
> I had hight hopes for FC5, HELL, I was even going to install it
> on my LAB machines without first testing it at home.
> 
> But some visionary has turned it into crap.
> 
> When doing an install, if the installer cant find a package you
> used to get a message asking if you wanted it to try again. 
> Whenever I got this message, either rereading , or 
> popping the CD out, and cleaning it did the trick, next try
> the installer was able to read the package and the install 
> continued, with a bit of a delay.
> 
> Now some clown has 'fixed' this so that the only option you get
> is to REBOOT.  I dont need a button to reboot, I can manage that
> quite easily with <CTL><ALT><DEL> or a power cycle.

If a network install isn't an option - do a minimal FC4 install - update
the kernel, update yum, and then install fedora-release from fc5.

You should then be able to yum update to fc5.

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