Updating to Fedora Core 5

[Janina Sajka]

We're working on direct support for yum via repo on SpeakupModified.Org,
but it isn't there yet, sorry to say.


Dawes, Stephen writes:
> Wil,
> 
> A few things to remember when doing the yum approach is:
> - Do not skip major versions.
> So, you need to go from 3 to 4 and then to 5.
> 
> - I believe that the speakup-modified kernels are available through a
> yum repository, but you will need to set up the .repo file to grab them.
> 
> - the first 2 things to upgrade are the fedora-release and yum packages.
> The fedora-release package needs to be upgraded manually using rpm.
> Then you do a yum update yum.
> Then you can start the upgrade process.
> 
> Good luck, and I can be called on if you have questions.
>  
> 
> 
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