On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 17:44 +0700, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > On Wednesday 26 October 2005 14:25, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > I tried that. > > > > I am starting to get upset now. Mike says to update > > but how is this possible? All I can do is to run the > > fedora rescue disc and then what? Do I run the up2date -u > > in this mode after setting up the network connection? > > > > Seems that whomever released this distro should throw away > > the iso cds and create a BRAND NEW ONE. This distro is very > > very very hosed and buggy. There are NO RECOVERY PATHs that > > I can find and I have wasted too much time already trying to > > fix what is very broken. > > Hi Daniel, > Don't get too upset :) > You said you finished installed it in text mode: > 2) Did Text-based installation and installed everything and hoped > that I can somehow fix the X11/GUI later: > > Then you can update FC4 using yum as root in the console, type: > yum check-update > You'll see the upgradable packages, Then you can select the packages you want > to update (in this case X11 related): > yum update packagename1 packagename2 > > Pls let us know the result. Shouldn't Daniel be booting to single user mode by adding a 1 or 3 or something to the grub boot line to enable him to boot from the hard drive in text mode to do the updates with yum?
