27 Apr 2007 Howto install Fedora Core 5 (FC5) from a USB stick
Download the Fedora disk image from a mirror:
# wget http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/fedora/5/i386/os/images/diskboot.img
Make sure that the USB device is unmounted:
# sudo umount /dev/sda1
Copy the img to the usb key device:
# dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sda
Reboot and then select a network based install by typing:
linux askmethod
Tags: core 5, dd, Fedora, sudo, wget
Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
06 Feb 2007 rpm and yum stop working on Fedora Core 5
yum and rpm stop doing their magic because of corrupt files etc and no updates can be performed on the system. A simple, but maybe not recommended solution is to delete the files located in /var/lib/rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 10:10 __db.000 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Jan 19 17:12 __db.001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1318912 Jan 19 17:12 __db.002 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 450560 Jan 19 17:12 __db.003
This solution does most likely work in other rpm based distributions.
Tags: core 5, Fedora, RedHat, rpm, yum
Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
