Not enough info, so no point

[n2xssvv.g02gfr12930]

On 06/03/2011 02:48 PM, JD wrote:
> On 06/03/11 03:22, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote:
>> On 06/03/2011 03:44 AM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote:
>>> On 05/31/2011 06:24 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote:
>>>> For my PC
>>>>
>>>> Fedora 15 update fails
>>>>
>>>> Fedora 15 install CD fails to boot
>>>>
>>>> Fedora 15 Live KDE fails to boot
>>>>
>>>> All fail to finish initialising hardware.
>>>>
>>>> smolt page :
>>>> http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_4917245b-ea15-44b1-ae4d-788c70a5a3d9
>>>>
>>>> Result : I shall not be updating to Fedora 15 any time soon
>>>>
>>>> I provide this information reluctantly based on my previous experience
>>>> posting to this community, which laughingly suggests it provides
>>>> assistance, encouragement, and advice.
>>> Well I've now tried to install Fedora 15 to a separate partition as follows:
>>>
>>>
>>> 1   Boot from a Fedora 14 installation disk
>>>
>>> 2   Change repositories config to point to Fedora 15
>>>
>>> 3   Run install
>>>
>>> 4   Anaconda fails after installing all RPMs
>>>
>>>
>>> I've also configured the Fedora 14 so I can mount the Fedora 15 root LVM
>>>
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I still seem to be getting an error as described earlier
>>> for Fedora 15 Live KDE CD
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to change Fedora 15 to force it to use the vesa
>>> graphics drivers? I suspect how it's done has changed for Fedora 15.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I can now mount the Fedora 15 root, home, and boot partitions from
>> Fedora 14 boot. So any suggestions how I could make use of this would be
>> appreciated.
>>
> To my mind, the most you can do with chroot'ing
> to the F15 mounted partition, with F14 being the
> booted OS (and with network fully operational)
> is that you should be able to run yum -y update.
> This will update your F15 environment, but will
> leave F14 alone.
> But before you run yum -y update, I THINK (but I am not
> sure) you will need to  first kill the F14 updates daemon:
>
> service yum-updatesd stop
>
> Perhaps another person who has more knowledge
> about the yum-updatesd can shed more light here.
>

Thanks for that, but as you say you really need to know what you're 
doing. I'm certainly not comfortable trying that.