On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 23:55 -0600, clemens@xxxxxxx wrote: > I had hight hopes for FC5, HELL, I was even going to install it > on my LAB machines without first testing it at home. > > But some visionary has turned it into crap. > > When doing an install, if the installer cant find a package you > used to get a message asking if you wanted it to try again. > Whenever I got this message, either rereading , or > popping the CD out, and cleaning it did the trick, next try > the installer was able to read the package and the install > continued, with a bit of a delay. > > Now some clown has 'fixed' this so that the only option you get > is to REBOOT. I dont need a button to reboot, I can manage that > quite easily with <CTL><ALT><DEL> or a power cycle. If a network install isn't an option - do a minimal FC4 install - update the kernel, update yum, and then install fedora-release from fc5. You should then be able to yum update to fc5.
