On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 16:06 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 22:57 +0000, Darren Foster wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 15:06 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > > cat /etc/*release > > > > Hmmm i get the following: > > > > cat: /etc/*release: No such file or directory > > > > Is this beginning to sound like my fedora core 5 install is fobarred? > ---- > I'm not convinced that this is actually a fedora install. > > You can replace this by simply (as root) > > echo "Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)" > /etc/fedora-release > ln -s /etc/fedora-release /etc/redhat-release > > but first, let's confirm that this is fedora core 5 install > > Craig > root@localhost ~]# uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 #1 Sat Oct 14 16:59:26 EDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux And I've done the below. [root@localhost ~]# echo "Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)" > /etc/fedora-release [root@localhost ~]# ln -s /etc/fedora-release /etc/redhat-release Has this made it any clearer to you, because I'm a little lost now. The DVD install was definitely FC5 as the above confirms. Darren
