On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 10:05 +0200, gbiczo@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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). http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC5Common has a link to configure pirut to use a local repository. > > 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...) No idea. > > 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? It might work but dont file bugs if it breaks. Thats why I wrote it up as formally not supported. Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
