installed Fedora Core 5 but have questions

[propaine]

Since I'm considering whether to upgrade Fedora or switch to something else,
can you tell me why you decided that GRML is not for you?  Thanks!

Propaine
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul at asmodean.net>
To: "Speakup Mailing-list" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 11:11 AM
Subject: installed Fedora Core 5 but have questions


> OK. After a short-lived experience with GRML I relize it was not for me.
> So I figured I'd go back to Fedora Core. I was previously using 3 and
> figured it was time to use 5.
>
> I installed 5 via telnet so am faced with no speakup modified kernel.
> I've downloaded the kernel rpm from speakupmodified.org. The one which
> is currently on my system is:
>
> kernel                  i686       2.6.17-1.2139_FC5
>
> So I downloaded the kernel I found on the ftp site which appears to have
> the same version. The name of the rpm is
>
> kernel-2.6.17-1.2139_FC5spk.i686.rpm
>
> When I try to install it though I get an error about the gpg key. Output
> is below.
>
> kernel                  i686       2.6.17-1.2139_FC5  installed
> 37 M
>
> Transaction Summary
>
============================================================================
=
> Install      1 Package(s)
> Update       0 Package(s)
> Remove       1 Package(s)
> Total download size: 37 M
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Downloading Packages:
> warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
> 35571ae2
>
>
> Public key for kernel-2.6.17-1.2139_FC5spk.i686.rpm is not installed
>
> So, first question is how do I install getting past this error?
>
> Second question is what would be the correct syntax in removing the
> original kernel installed by fc5 which is 2.6.15. I was looking in
> /boot/grub/grub.conf and I see that one in there as well.
>
> Third question. Am I correct in assuming that once the speakup modified
> kernel is installed I still need to make the initial ram disk so that it
> knows which synthesizer I'm using?
>
> Thanks and FYI. I've read the various posts on the speakup archives
> especially messages from Janina and Stephen but
> none of them have mentioned the rpm and key bit. Many thanks in advance
> to anyone who can help.
>
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> Raul A. Gallegos ... IliwSsmc
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