On 06/03/2011 02:48 PM, JD wrote: > On 06/03/11 03:22, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: >> On 06/03/2011 03:44 AM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: >>> On 05/31/2011 06:24 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: >>>> For my PC >>>> >>>> Fedora 15 update fails >>>> >>>> Fedora 15 install CD fails to boot >>>> >>>> Fedora 15 Live KDE fails to boot >>>> >>>> All fail to finish initialising hardware. >>>> >>>> smolt page : >>>> http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_4917245b-ea15-44b1-ae4d-788c70a5a3d9 >>>> >>>> Result : I shall not be updating to Fedora 15 any time soon >>>> >>>> I provide this information reluctantly based on my previous experience >>>> posting to this community, which laughingly suggests it provides >>>> assistance, encouragement, and advice. >>> Well I've now tried to install Fedora 15 to a separate partition as follows: >>> >>> >>> 1 Boot from a Fedora 14 installation disk >>> >>> 2 Change repositories config to point to Fedora 15 >>> >>> 3 Run install >>> >>> 4 Anaconda fails after installing all RPMs >>> >>> >>> I've also configured the Fedora 14 so I can mount the Fedora 15 root LVM >>> >>> >>> Unfortunately I still seem to be getting an error as described earlier >>> for Fedora 15 Live KDE CD >>> >>> >>> Does anyone know how to change Fedora 15 to force it to use the vesa >>> graphics drivers? I suspect how it's done has changed for Fedora 15. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> I can now mount the Fedora 15 root, home, and boot partitions from >> Fedora 14 boot. So any suggestions how I could make use of this would be >> appreciated. >> > To my mind, the most you can do with chroot'ing > to the F15 mounted partition, with F14 being the > booted OS (and with network fully operational) > is that you should be able to run yum -y update. > This will update your F15 environment, but will > leave F14 alone. > But before you run yum -y update, I THINK (but I am not > sure) you will need to first kill the F14 updates daemon: > > service yum-updatesd stop > > Perhaps another person who has more knowledge > about the yum-updatesd can shed more light here. > Thanks for that, but as you say you really need to know what you're doing. I'm certainly not comfortable trying that. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines