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Linux

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

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Linux

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– […]

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