Hi

new to linux but did install rh9 on my pc and works very good i downloaded FC5 (5 cds and burned them all ok) to upgrade but it just doen't recognize it and still boot on RH9 i have tried to boot with the same fc5 cd1 on my XP and it works fine what could it be ????

thanks...

Maybe a lack of punctuation and capital letters?

Did you actually install the FC5 or are you just booting from the first FC5 CD?

If you installed FC5, did it detect the RH9 during the installation? Did the FC5 install give you the option of choosing your default distro to boot? If so, which one did you choose?

What are the contents of your /boot/grub/menu.lst file?

thanks ...what i did was just trying to boot with the first FC5 cd hoping it would ask me what i wanted to do (on the rh9 pc)but no chance... the bios on both pcs have cdrom to boot first and it does detect on the xp pc but not the rh9 one... both have the same cdrom maker LG ...!!!!
what could do this ?
the reason behind that is that i am unable to recover my root password on rh9 ...!so i decide to upgrade thinking perhaps this will not give me the answer but still to discover the fedora core .

Well, you can't "recover" your root password, but you can set a new one. While booting Red Hat just press "e" in GRUB. You will find 3 lines of code.

Goto to the 2nd line press "e"again and type "1" in the end, for example...

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-0.70 root=LABEL=/hdc=ide-scsi 1

Then press ENTER. Doing this will log you into single usermode.

Then press "b" and it will boot you into your command/shell. Just type "passwd" and change your root password. You don't need to know the old password.

thanks... that really did it for the password now i will have to see about fd5 if you ever any enlightments about it let me now thanks again

I'm afraid I don't have anything for the CD-ROM problem other than maybe the drive is busted. Have you tried using it to boot something other than the FC5 CD? Or have you tried swapping CD-ROM drives to see if it works?

cdrom recovered... yes it was busted and changed it but now it does boot ok and stops at this line :
Checking 'hlt' instruction Ok
and that's it ?????

HI
has anyone installed FC5 AND NDISWRAPPER 0.7 because i get the following error

[root@azur ndiswrapper-0.7]# make install
make -C driver install
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/ndiswrapper-0.7/driver'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/build SUBDIRS=/root/ndiswrapper-0.7/driver DRV_VERSION=0.7 modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: Entering an unknown directorymake: Leaving an unknown directory
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/ndiswrapper-0.7/driver'
make: *** [install] Error 2

hi everyone

Any help on this one as I get the following error message


root@azur ndiswrapper-1.22]# make

make -C
driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/titi/ndiswrapper-1.22/driver
'
Can't find kernel build files in /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp/build;

give the path to kernel build directory with
KBUILD=<path> argument to make
make[1]: *** [prereq_check]
Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/titi/ndiswrapper-1.22/driver'

make: *** [all] Error 2

[root@azur ndiswrapper-1.22]#

thanks

I had some problems with ndiswrapper.
The best way to install this is to configure YUM as described on fedorafaq.org
Then easily yum install ndiswrapper and it works fine.

Arjen

i have used fedora core 2 and 3 with no problems. with fc5 i guess they left out selfboot. (for the dvd image anyway) . i tried to install fc5 off the cds.. but it hangs. i did do the media check on all disks and all passed.. cerious. is fc5 actually stable?