On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 20:15 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:57:16 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 17:47 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > >> **Major Question** : > >> > >> Now that the upgrade FC5 => FC6 has succeeded, with no apparent > >> losses, do I want to run yum update, or proceed directly to F7?? > > ---- > > just upgrade - don't update interim versions. I hope that you read the > > wiki FAQ link I gave you earlier. > > Well, I saw that it was warning me heavily against doing it with > yum, and I didn't propose that. And it seemed to be all about that. > > Thanks to your reminder, I took another look. But I soon hit > places where I was unable either to read or to copy commands -- despite > trying both Firefox and Opera. > > So I dug out my old F7 Respin DVD -- and hit an odd problem. This > machine for some reason is reluctant to admit it sees my external USB CD/ > DVD drive. If you poke around, you find a place where it gives its name, > but no more. > > I got it to see it long enough to transfer some data in, but not > on boot, by first logging in as root. I guess I'll have to try that again. ---- I was thinking more along the lines that Fedora 7 labels ATA/IDE hard drives as SCSI devices which changes the drive letter designations from /dev/hda to /dev/sda et. al. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
