[CALUG] FC5 Help

[Brian Debelius]

If you have  the images, can you mount them in loop back?

junekis at comcast.net wrote:
> I can get you a set of FC5 install CDs - if you give me a snail-mail address
>
> (if you're in between beltsville and ellicott city, I can drop them off - I'll be driving that route this evening
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Jason C. Miller" <jason.c.miller at gmail.com>
>   
>> Unfortunately, I'm not at the same site where I did the install and thus 
>> do not have the CDs with me.  And, of course, I have the images but my 
>> burner software requires one of the libraries.  Go figure.  I'm currently 
>> looking to see if I can sucker someone else into burning it for me. 
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Eric Gosnell wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Are you not able to get these files off of your install CD's?  I have  
>>> FC CDs, but I don't know if I am running FC5 or FC6...  (I have kernel  
>>> 2.6.16.)
>>>
>>> Eric
>>>
>>>
>>> Quoting "Jason C. Miller" <jason.c.miller at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I need help recovering from my complete and total idiocy.
>>>>
>>>> I'm running the latest FC5.  I had to downgrade my compilers to match
>>>> those of the development team I'm working with.  I thought I'd be slick
>>>> and write a long command line to find the current appropriate RPMs and
>>>> uninstall them.  Of course, my coolness ended up uninstalling libgcc and a
>>>> couple others as well.  Go figure.  That's just how cool I am.
>>>>
>>>> I can't download the source since I have no functional compilers and 'rpm'
>>>> requires three uninstalled libraries.  Add to that the fact that I'm
>>>> the ONLY one running FC5 (or FC anything for that matter).
>>>>
>>>> I'm in a state at the moment where I don't dare turn my machine off and
>>>> am somewhat with a lack of options.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions, anyone?  Are these downloadable as unpackaged files
>>>> anywhere?
>>>>
>>>> I'm REALLY hoping that someone will know of a solution for this catch-22
>>>> because I would really feel idiotic asking someone to e-mail me their
>>>> libpopt.so.0, libstdc++.so.6, and libgcc_s.so.1 files.
>>>>
>>>> ARG!!
>>>>
>>>> (Yet another reminder that some simple lessons are never really truly
>>>> learned)
>>>>
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