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[Darren Foster]

On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 16:06 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 22:57 +0000, Darren Foster wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 15:06 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > > cat /etc/*release
> > 
> > Hmmm i get the following:
> > 
> > cat: /etc/*release: No such file or directory
> > 
> > Is this beginning to sound like my fedora core 5 install is fobarred?
> ----
> I'm not convinced that this is actually a fedora install.
> 
> You can replace this by simply (as root)
> 
> echo "Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)" > /etc/fedora-release
> ln -s /etc/fedora-release /etc/redhat-release
> 
> but first, let's confirm that this is fedora core 5 install
> 
> Craig
> 

root at localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 #1 Sat Oct 14 16:59:26 EDT
2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

And I've done the below.

[root at localhost ~]# echo "Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)"
> /etc/fedora-release
[root at localhost ~]# ln -s /etc/fedora-release /etc/redhat-release

Has this made it any clearer to you, because I'm a little lost now.

The DVD install was definitely FC5 as the above confirms.

Darren