Last night I installed this old Fedora Core 3 Beta DVD I had, because my all installation was just too messy...

Everything is going dandy, except for two things:
1. yum wouldn't work, I added repositories, take disabled them and the only thing that got it to work was to change the $releasever variable for "2". Why 2? I'm not sure, but eventhough I know this is Fedora Core 3, even in the installation it called itself Fedora Core 2.

2. I wanted to have NTFS support, so I looked into it and there are some oh so convenient RPMs already compiled for Fedora, but not for my kernel version. So I tried to go to yum and update it, and I typed "yum update kernel" and it looked like it had updated it, it brought me back to the prompt without errors. Then I restarted the computer and in my LILO or whatever Linux loader came as default my linux was labeled as the kernel that came with the disc (2.6.7-1.478). It loaded well and when I went back to the terminal and tried this:

[root@adsl-68-72-131-38 root]# uname -r -p
2.6.7-1.478 i686

So basically my kernel didn't update?
so I tried again...

[root@adsl-68-72-131-38 root]# yum update kernel
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree
Server: Red Hat Linux 2 - i386 - freshrpms
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
emacs-common-0-21.3-25.i3 100% |=========================| 50 kB 00:00
cdecl-0-2.5-32.i386.hdr 100% |=========================| 2.0 kB 00:00
m4-0-1.4.2-2.i386.hdr 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00
emacs-leim-0-21.3-25.i386 100% |=========================| 12 kB 00:00
sox-0-12.17.6-2.i386.hdr 100% |=========================| 3.0 kB 00:00
byacc-0-1.9-29.i386.hdr 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB 00:00
emacs-0-21.3-25.i386.hdr 100% |=========================| 10 kB 00:00
byacc-debuginfo-0-1.9-29. 100% |=========================| 1.5 kB 00:00
fonts-chinese-0-2.15-1.no 100% |=========================| 2.0 kB 00:00
memtest86+-0-1.51-1.i386. 100% |=========================| 2.6 kB 00:00
emacs-nox-0-21.3-25.i386. 100% |=========================| 10 kB 00:00
genromfs-debuginfo-0-0.5. 100% |=========================| 1.6 kB 00:00
firefox-debuginfo-0-1.0.1 100% |=========================| 134 kB 00:00
jed-0-0.99.16-7.i386.hdr 100% |=========================| 14 kB 00:00
sox-debuginfo-0-12.17.6-2 100% |=========================| 5.9 kB 00:00
cdecl-debuginfo-0-2.5-32. 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
genromfs-0-0.5.1-2.i386.h 100% |=========================| 1.7 kB 00:00
cpufreq-utils-1-0.2-1.1.1 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB 00:00
tftp-debuginfo-0-0.40-3.i 100% |=========================| 3.3 kB 00:00
cpufreq-utils-debuginfo-1 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB 00:00
emacs-debuginfo-0-21.3-25 100% |=========================| 15 kB 00:00
m4-debuginfo-0-1.4.2-2.i3 100% |=========================| 2.6 kB 00:00
tftp-server-0-0.40-3.i386 100% |=========================| 3.3 kB 00:00
sox-devel-0-12.17.6-2.i38 100% |=========================| 2.6 kB 00:00
tftp-0-0.40-3.i386.hdr 100% |=========================| 3.0 kB 00:00
jed-debuginfo-0-0.99.16-7 100% |=========================| 1.6 kB 00:00
firefox-0-1.0.1-2.i386.hd 100% |=========================| 22 kB 00:00
emacs-el-0-21.3-25.i386.h 100% |=========================| 36 kB 00:00
kernel is installed and the latest version.
No actions to take
[root@adsl-68-72-131-38 root]#


But I know that this is not the latest version, so what am I missing?

Also since I'm here, I installed xine for the first time and came across the fact that I had to install an extra plugin to play the DVDs. I did it using yum and it will still not play DVDs, same error msg...

These things seem to be related to my poor use of yum, but I just don't know what to do.

Any help is very appreciated

oh yeah, then I downloaded the RPM myself and I got this:

[root@adsl-68-72-131-38 root]# rpm -Uv kernel-2.6.10-1.14_FC2.i686.rpm
Preparing packages for installation...
package kernel-2.6.10-1.1155_FC4 (which is newer than kernel-2.6.10-1.14_FC2) is already installed

Ok, I modified the grub config file and I was able to boot in the new kernel

[root@adsl-68-72-131-38 root]# uname -r -p
2.6.10-1.1155_FC4 i686

Now there are no RPMs for the NTFS drivers in the website I was looking at... lol.
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora3.html

by the way, does FC4 means I have Fedora Core 4??? I never really understood what the "Core number" was...

does anyone know where I can find RPM packages for NTFS support for my kernel?

About my yum, I tried to bring it to what I think should be normal settings, this is the yum.conf file I tried:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=20

[base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/basearch/os

[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - Released Updates
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch

#[updates-testing]
#name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/$releasever/$basearch/

[development]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - Development Tree
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch/

[freshrpms]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

And this is what I got...

[root@adsl-68-72-131-38 root]# yum check-update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2.90 - i386 - Base
retrygrab() failed for:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...rs/header.info
Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...rs/header.info
[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found


if I use this one I modified:

[root@adsl-68-72-131-38 root]# yum check-update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree
Server: Red Hat Linux 2 - i386 - freshrpms
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Name Arch Version Repo
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4Suite i386 1.0-5 development
GConf i386 1.0.9-15 development
# yada yada yada... too long
yum noarch 2.3.0-2 development
zlib i386 1.2.2.2-1 development
zlib-devel i386 1.2.2.2-1 development

[root@adsl-68-72-131-38 root]#


I don't really understand why I'm getting these results?

Did you change your mirrors to download, also have you tried ctrl-c then it will try another mirror.