Help! fc2->fc5

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 10:05 +0200, 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).

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