> Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:07:52 -0700 > From: Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Yum issues.. > To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using > Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <1238814472.28700.13.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain > > > >> >> As mentioned above, I can no longer read my DVD drive or USB's, >> only HD is available. >> > ---- > Fedora 10 has live-cd and full DVD, either of which can be used to > install Fedora 10 or update to Fedora 10. Craig, I ordered a DVD from linuxcentral for update to fc10. I think it should boot okay. I use Xunbuntu as VM and the drive does respond. > > If you cannot boot a CD or DVD and if you cannot boot from USB > port (i.e. like a USB thumb drive or USB hard disk drive), your > options are very few. > Not to mention the hoops to jump through. > Using yum to upgrade from Fedora 5 to Fedora 9 or Fedora 10 might > have been possible while you had interim releases available in > repositories (i.e. Fedora 6, 7, 8) but I think they have all been > removed. I have a core5 DVD here I used in the beginning. Doesn't read with Gui up but might at start. > > Just in case you feel you want to try to pull it off (and I > seriously don't know how you are going to do that), you will > definitely want to read this information really carefully... > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq > Could 'do that' with more options if Yum was working...or the DVD. Does 'dbus' messages at start have anything to do with the DVD? Found this enticing command- #Yum erase dbus.i386 > > There is a major gotcha at Fedora 7 where the ata subsystem is > replaced by scsi so your drives change from /dev/hda to /dev/sda, > etc. which affects booting (grub) and fstab and it's clearly a fail > point. Im sure we could avoid it. I can get to grub but I know no commands there, and can also get to 'I'nteractive. You would also have to find some mirror somewhere that > didn't purge the old versions of Fedora 6/7/8 so you could interim > step each upgrade. > I found..then lost a mirror site but did/have not found a download depository yet for fc8 or the others. They may well not exist. Will look again and keep you updated on this. > Now I'm somewhat unclear what you're asking about getting the > system and services back in place...do you mean trying to make > Fedora 5 work again? System hangs vicariously on boot. I posted the outputs earlier for named and messagebus but they were under a different subject line. We fixed NFS when you sent me to LDAP, I turned it off but won't find out about it till after I shut down today. Does dbus_messagebus have anything at all to do with the way Yum works or two separate issues. > I wouldn't know what's broken other than some tinkering > with /etc/yum.repos.d files This is what I would like to do; delete all those in repos.d and start over fresh. enter the baseurl's for the versioning, incremental steps, if they exist. Please advise. > > Craig > If tinkering with repos.d is of no use, I won't ask for the impossible. Mailman will be by next week... Appreciate your help, David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
