almost success

[Stephen Clower]

Ok folks, for those of you who are running FC1 and are not able to install FC2 from the CD images due to some hardware issues, it does indeed look like yum will update your Fedora installation to the latest release. Initially, you will need to install most, if not all, of the packages from FC1. Unfortunately, in /etc/yum.conf, yum is set to upgrade to the latest release of Fedora Core 1. What I ended up doing was replacing the $releasever strings in the base and update URL's to the number 2. Probably not the best thing to do I'm sure, but that along with the exclude line in Janina's prior post got me all of FC2, save the 2.6 Speakup image. I've installed it from the RPM package from the Speakup FTP server, so once I figure out how to reconfigure grub, I'll be set. This is by no means guaranteed to work for anyone else, but I thought the list might be interested to know that it appears to have worked. Note that this takes a *very* long time, even on a broadband connection (about 4 hours for me). I hope the hardware issue, whatever it may be, will be corrected some time soon, but in the mean time things are looking much better.

Thanks,
Steve


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