Help! fc2->fc5

[Leon]

gbiczo at freestart.hu 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