gbiczo@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > Hi all, > > I tried to upgrade my FC 2 system to FC5. For some reason, the > installation/upgrade process stopped, I retryed several times, but > haden't success. The installation is thus broken. I decided to > upgrade the packages manually. Now two questions emerged. > > 1. Graphical package installation (pirut?) doesn't work, seems it > cannot find repository data. How can it be told to "look into" the > installation cds? Is pirut the tool I need to use? (manual > installation/upgrade is a bit difficult: deps). > > 2. Tried to compile a kernel module for my lt winmodem. insmod won't > load the module, exits with interesting error messages. Has anybody > tried such a blasphemy under FC5? Kernel is 2.6.16-1.2080 (Yes, > because of nvidia...) > > aha! and a minor question: Release notes mentions, that fc5 doesn't > support serial mice. Now my broken installation uses perfectly my old > mouse (serial, of course), which is very good. Is there an "official" > possibility to use serial mice? > > Thanks in advance Giovanni You will be better off doing a clean install. There are issues even upgrade from FC4. -- Leon -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
