FEDORA release number

ducunee · 12-30-2006, 08:49 PM

I want to determine which FEDORA release is installed on my machine. I was using 3 and when I booted the 5 disks not much happened. I was not prompted to mount any other disks.

tuxrules · 12-30-2006, 08:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ducunee

I want to determine which FEDORA release is installed on my machine. I was using 3 and when I booted the 5 disks not much happened. I was not prompted to mount any other disks.

open up console (terminal) and try

Code:

cat /etc/fedora-release

Edit...I'm not too sure about the file name there...it may also be a underscore there instead of a dash.

reddazz · 12-30-2006, 10:22 PM

Code:

#uname -a

That should also give you a clue about your distro and its version.

masonm · 12-30-2006, 10:51 PM

uname -a will just give you the kernel version number.

Somewhere in /etc (probably) will be a file that lists the release version number.

From the description in the original post it sounds like a failed upgrade. Probably still running the same version.

reddazz · 12-31-2006, 01:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by masonm

uname -a will just give you the kernel version number.

Somewhere in /etc (probably) will be a file that lists the release version number.

From the description in the original post it sounds like a failed upgrade. Probably still running the same version.

Seems like a Linux thing. On FreeBSD (I am sure on Solaris as well) running "uname -a" shows everything including the operating system version. On Fedora Core, /etc/redhat-release and /etc/fedora-release contain the operating system version. On other distros and some other unix oses, you can just do "cat /etc/release".

ducunee · 12-31-2006, 08:28 AM

etc Fedora release 3
Any ideas why can't upgrade to 5?
CD is being accessed then up comes log on screen.

ducunee · 01-03-2007, 06:23 PM

I burnt the CDs wrong. running fine on 6