I just thought I would report this, for anybody who is looking for it in the future. I just upgraded my FC5 installation to FC6 on my Compaq Presario 2100 laptop. First of all, I had some difficulty reading the installation DVD so I booted with linux ide=nodma and was able to perform the upgrade from there. After I booted, I attempted a $ sudo yum update but that failed due to a conflict with kmod-ntfs, so I removed the (old, FC5) package and was able to run the yum update. Following the update, I tried to (re)install kmod-ntfs, but that failed due to a known bug in which anaconda installed the 586 version of the kernel on my laptop instead of the 686 version. I corrected that, following the instructions Google found for me on http://forum.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=139751: $ sudo yum install yum-utils $ yumdownloader kernel-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6.i686 $ sudo rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs kernel-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6.i686.rpm (BTW, what is with the preference for "su -c" over "sudo" amongst Fedora users, anyway?) For future reference, it would appear that, if I'd read the release notes and known bugs pages more carefully (i.e. at all) before I started this process, I would have tried booting with something like: i686 ide=nodma and probably would have avoided that whole unpleasantness. Oh well, lesson learned. The only other issue I ran into was an error message I spotted during boot: Starting system message bus: Unknown group "netdev" in message bus configuration file Google pointed me to https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=31686&forum=11, which described this as a known bug (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219218) and suggested changing the text 'group="netdev"' to 'at_console="true"' in "/etc/dbus-1/system.d/avahi-dbus.conf", which I did. Anyway, the point of this email was to report a success story and to document this for the next person who finds it via some random Google search. Oh yeah, thanks for all the hard work that has gone into FC6. --wpd
