grub question on fedora core 6 and debian etch system

[Janina Sajka]

If I understand what you're writing, it doesn't work that way.

You have to boot Fedora to run yum. You don't use Debian and chroot into
your Fedora partition.

Can you boot Fedora? If need be you could ssh into your running session.

If I'm misunderstanding you and you're getting this dependency issue,
simply add the dependency to what you're upgrading, e.g.:

yum update yum yum-updatesd

If you simply run:

yum upgrade

you'll pick up all dependencies, but be careful not to lose your Speakup
Modified kernel rpm. The exclude is still agood idea for that reason,
though it forces you to grab kernels by hand. There is an argument you
can try in your /etc/yum.repos.d/speakupmodified.repo:

kernelpkgnames=kernel-*spk

but the yum docs list this as deprecated, so I don't know what the
future is on that.

Janina


Nick Gawronski writes:
> Hi, I have fedora core 6 with speakup installed but now when I chroot
> into the mounted partition using debian and even in the installation
> envirnment I received this error message when trying to upgrade yum
> Error: Missing Dependency: yum = 3.0.1-2.fc6 is needed by package
> yum-updatesd
> How can I fix this problem,  I emailed Bill about the grub issues but
> would like to get this yum issue fixed so I can update packages.  I
> followed the directions on speakupmodified.org to have yum update my
> speakup modified version so do I still need to add the exclude line as
> it states in the howto?On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > You might want to contact Bill Acker directly about adding packages.
> > It's not hard, but I don't recall the details, and he does it all the
> > time, but I don't believe he keeps up with this list these days.
> >
> > You can handle grub either way--leave it, or let Fedora manage it. It
> > will not trash your hda2, and it will happily share swap space for you.
> >
> > Janina
> >
> > Nick Gawronski writes:
> > > Hi, I am going to be receiving the fedora core 6 DVD son in the mail and
> > > was wondering a few things.  First I heard from someone on this list I
> > > forget who that now there is no longer a choice for installing everything.
> > > Is this true and if I do infact want to install everything what is the
> > > best way to go about it?  Also, and my main point for writing is I have
> > > debian etch installed on /dev/hda2 and will be installing fedora core 6 on
> > > /dev/hda3 with both of them sharing swap space on /dev/hda1.  What is
> > > easier, having the fedora core 6 installer install grub on my system or
> > > not install grub on the fedora core side of things and just edit the
> > > menu.lst file after my fedora core 6 installation?  As soon as that how to
> > > is updated for fedora core 6 on speakupmodified.org things would be even
> > > better.  Any help in this matter would be great!
> > >
> > >
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> >
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