OFF-TOPIC Re: Help! fc2->fc5
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
Fri May 5 19:42:27 UTC 2006
gbiczo at freestart.hu 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).
>
> 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?
>
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Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
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