On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 10:05 +0200, gbiczo(a)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