Live USB: Persistent Overlay full so system won't boot. Snapshot Invalid

[Rahul Nabar]

I accidentally managed to fill up the live-rw overlay and now my
system won't boot. It falls to the dracut emergency shell complaining
that it cannot mount the root partition.

Logs say:

EXT-4-fs (dm-0): unable to read superblock
SQUASHFS error: squashfs read data failed to read block 0x0
unable to read squashfs_super_block
Can't mount root file system

I've been trying to fix this following instructions at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LiveOS_image#Merge_overlay_into_new_image
  The key step is:

# echo $'\x01' | dd of=/path/to/overlay-file bs=1 count=1 seek=4 conv=notrunc

But I'm stuck because I'm not sure what /path/to/overlay-file is for
me. Neither of the mentioned files seem present, at least in the
dracut emergency shell.

# dmsetup status does show "live-rw: 0 8388608 snapshot Invalid"

Is this the right way to fix this? Where do I find the right overlay
file to flip the Invalid bit at? Would love to get any advice on this.
Right now I'm stuck with a non-booting system and no way to recover
any data I had on it.
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Re: Volume too low on F20 (32bit)

[Someone]

On 06/02/2014 09:23 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>  Hello,
>
>   After a fresh install of Fedora 20, 32bit, and adding enough packages to
> watch YouTube videos, I have sound (for both the YouTube videos and for
> Clanbomber), but the volume is way too low, almost inaudible.
>
>   I have a volume setting widget on the lower panel and I set volume to
> maximum. I also set the volume to maximum in alsamixer and pavucontrol,
> even after setting VolumeOverdrive to true in kmixrc. I have kmix running.
> I removed and installed back pulseaudio to see if it makes a difference,
> and it seems it does not. When I start kmixctrl in a terminal, it finishes
> without anything happening.
>
>   Any ideas? Thanks!
>
>  Best,
>  Oliver
>
>
>


I've been running 64 bit F20 LXDE for some time now, and I had been
having tons of hiccups with my sound. I resolved the latest by removing
the "pulseaudio" and "alsa-plugins-pulseaudio" packages, and, as someone
else suggested, running "sudo alsactl init". The person who suggested
that explained that it's often required to be run periodically.

About three days ago, I noticed that my sound was suddenly very low and
faint, but I was on my way out of town when I noticed, so I didn't
manage to troubleshoot at all, but now that I'm back, I tried that
alsactl command again, and it fixed the issue entirely.

To recap, my suggestion to you is:

sudo yum remove pulseaudio alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
sudo alsactl init

..and, if that doesn't work, maybe try rebooting and testing again after
that.

Good luck.
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Re: Adding minimal X windows

[Sudhir Khanger]

On Sunday, June 01, 2014 02:53:52 PM Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> I built a Fedora 20 system as a server, without a desktop.  It turns
> out, no X server is installed at all in that case.  I'd like to add a
> minimal X server without adding a complete desktop environment, so I can
> log in remotely and run system configuration tools.  The documentation
> I've found suggests 
> 
> yum groupinstall "Basic X Window System"
> 
> or
> 
> yum groupinstall "X Window System"
> 
> but neither of those groups exist.  There is a Basic Desktop group, but
> it installs a bunch of unnecessary desktop tools.
> 
> What's the best way to get just a basic X server in Fedora 20?
> 
> TIA.
> -- 
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> Clemson University Math Sciences
> mjs AT clemson DOT edu

Have you checked out group "Basic Desktop"? If I ever want to go minimal I 
tend to go along with i3. You should try that.

[donnie@fedora ~]$ yum group info "Basic Desktop"
Loaded plugins: changelog, fastestmirror, langpacks, local, refresh-
packagekit, show-leaves
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * fedora: mirror.cse.iitk.ac.in
 * rpmfusion-free: mirror.cse.iitk.ac.in
 * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.cse.iitk.ac.in
 * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.cse.iitk.ac.in
 * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.cse.iitk.ac.in
 * tlp: repo.warpnine.de
 * tlp-updates: repo.warpnine.de
 * updates: mirrors.ispros.com.bd

Environment Group: Basic Desktop
 Environment-Id: basic-desktop-environment
 Description: X Window System with a choice of window manager.
 Mandatory Groups:
base-x
   +basic-desktop
core
dial-up
fonts
guest-desktop-agents
hardware-support
multimedia
standard
 Optional Groups:
   +cinnamon-desktop
   +firefox
   +gnome-desktop
   +input-methods
kde-desktop
   +legacy-fonts
libreoffice
   +lxde-desktop
   +mate-desktop
   +sugar-desktop
   +xfce-desktop
   +xmonad
   +xmonad-mate

Group: Basic Desktop
 Group-Id: basic-desktop
 Description: Basic X Window System with a choice of window manager.
 Mandatory Packages:
adwaita-cursor-theme
adwaita-gtk2-theme
adwaita-gtk3-theme
   +awesome
   +dwm
   +fedora-icon-theme
gnome-icon-theme-symbolic
i3
initial-setup
   +lightdm
   +metacity
   +openbox
   +ratpoison
   +xmonad-basic

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Volume too low on F20 (32bit)

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

 Hello,

  After a fresh install of Fedora 20, 32bit, and adding enough packages to
watch YouTube videos, I have sound (for both the YouTube videos and for
Clanbomber), but the volume is way too low, almost inaudible.

  I have a volume setting widget on the lower panel and I set volume to
maximum. I also set the volume to maximum in alsamixer and pavucontrol,
even after setting VolumeOverdrive to true in kmixrc. I have kmix running.
I removed and installed back pulseaudio to see if it makes a difference,
and it seems it does not. When I start kmixctrl in a terminal, it finishes
without anything happening.

  Any ideas? Thanks!

 Best,
 Oliver

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mailinglist issues (Was: Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?)

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Ed Greshko  writes:
> On 06/01/14 10:14, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
>
> 
> Off topic. Is this email sent from your personal email server?
> I am asking because Google shows a warning that they can't verify
> if this message was sent by the wsrcc.com.
>
> You get this warning because of this header in the email.
>
> Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
>spf=pass (google.com: domain of users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org 
> designates 209.132.181.2 as permitted sender) 
> smtp.mail=users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org;
>dkim=neutral (body hash did not verify) header.i=@;
>dmarc=fail (p=REJECT dis=NONE) header.from=wsrcc.com

Bingo.  Right on the money.

> I've not looked into itbut I don't think dkim/dmarc works very
> well with mailing lists.

It can.  Mailman has already been changed to take ownership of the
"From:" line pointing it to some list-owned address and injecting a
reply-to optionally to allow unicast msgs to work too.

The problem is that mailing lists forging From addresses looks the same
to software as a spammer forging the same.  No progress is going to be
made till mailing lists stop doing that.

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Re: Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?

[Doug]

On 06/01/2014 04:52 PM, Tim wrote:

Allegedly, on or about 01 June 2014, Oliver Ruebenacker sent:

For sure, I couldn't mount the Fedora DVDs, but I'm not sure whether
Windows XP is supposed to be able to do that anyway.

Yes, it can.  They're just a bootable disc with files on them.
  

Have you set the preferred boot sequence in the BIOS of
your machine so it looks first to the CD-ROM to boot?
You MUST do that or it will never boot on the CD.

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mailing list errors (was: Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?)

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Sudhir Khanger  writes:
> Off topic. Is this email sent from your personal email server? I am
> asking because Google shows a warning that they can't verify if this
> message was sent by the wsrcc.com.

Sudhir, thanks for noticing and speaking up!

Not totally off topic.   The issue is that the mailing list software
that fedora uses is an old version that still re-writes the body and
subject yet keeps the "From:" address.   Modern mailers that receive
mail can verify this tampering and will mark the message as such.

The magic is done via the DKIM header in the message as well as the SPF
and DMARC records I publish for wsrcc.com .   Yes I know that will cause
problems for my posts to this mailinglist.   Hopefully when the mailman
software is updated on lists.fedoraproject.org this problem will go away.

(The wsrcc.com domain is 24 years old and is on many spam email lists as
a potential source of forged "From:" addresses.  I see a small, but to
me, annoying 40 messages per day forged with my address.  I want it to
stop and this setting is doing wonders and dissuading spammers from using
my address.)

Probably more than you wanted to know.

-wolfgang
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Re: Samsung ML-2165W printer help

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 01 June 2014, Mike Wright sent:
> Cups isn't being very helpful here either.  Almost anything 
> administrator related tells me "Forbidden", but nowhere can I find a
> way to "Login" to it. 

In past times, as soon as you tried to do something that required
privileges, the CUPS webpage would prompt you to enter them, with the
standard gadget that the web browser used for entering username and
passwords.  They were the root username and password.  I don't know if
they've changed it to require your username and password.

But, otherwise, look in /var/log/cups/ for an error log, and read it.


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All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
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Re: Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 01 June 2014, Oliver Ruebenacker sent:
> For sure, I couldn't mount the Fedora DVDs, but I'm not sure whether
> Windows XP is supposed to be able to do that anyway.

Yes, it can.  They're just a bootable disc with files on them.
 
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All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.

George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.



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Re: Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

 Hello,

  Yay, I was able to install 32-bit Fedora 20 with KDE on my old machine
via netinstal CD, even in less than an hour. So far, runs fine, although
certainly not blazing fast.

  I think the problem was that my optical drive is somehow limited in what
it can do with DVDs. I very vaguely remember that, I think, it can only
play movies from them. For sure, I couldn't mount the Fedora DVDs, but I'm
not sure whether Windows XP is supposed to be able to do that anyway.

  Also, on closer look, the entry "removable" in the BIOS boot sequence did
not, as I first assumed, refer to USB drives, but to the floppy disk drive.

 Best,
 Oliver


On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 8:05 AM, nomnex  wrote:

> > On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 07:35:43 -0400
> > Robert Moskowitz  wrote:
> >
> > Try LiveCD and see if it will boot without trying to install.
>
> And see bug comment 4 or 21 if you are low on RAM
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708966
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Re: Adding minimal X windows

[Derrik Walker v2.0]

On 06/01/2014 02:12 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

On Sun, 2014-06-01 at 11:24 -0400, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote:

I usually just intall xterm.  It will get the minimum you need.  If
you want a window manager as well as min X, install it too ( I usually
us fvwm for cases like that ).

Installing xterm doesn't work. Apparently, for many of these X-based
tools, nobody thought to include X as a dependency.

  
That use to work.  They use to include X as a dependency.  But that was 
probably F-10 or F-11 last time I actually did that.


But here is an idea.  Figure our the apropriate X-server driver for you 
graphics card, ( mine is xorg-x11-drv-ati ), and install that. Surely 
that will have to get all the libraries and enough for a minimal X-server.


You'll probably need a window manager too.  FVWM or TWM should suffice 
for your needs and neither should not give you a bunch of crap you wont 
need.  I normally use FVWM in this case ( on full desktop systems I use 
XFCE ), but that's just personal preference.


The last time I set up a headless server with a minimal X, I simply did 
a yum -y install xterm fvwm, and that gave enough to run X-apps on a 
remote x-server.


If I wanted to use it on the system console from time to time, I also 
had to install the xorg-x11-drv for what ever graphics card the system 
had in it at the time, which gave me enough of everything to bring up a 
local x-server.  Nothing fancy, no desk top, but enough so I could run 
xterm locally.


Now it seems a lot of stuff is different.

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Re: Samsung ML-2165W printer help

[Joe Zeff]

On 06/01/2014 10:33 AM, Arthur Dent wrote:

If it doesn't check that
cups is running (as root: "systemctl status cups.service").


Just wanted to note that systemctl doesn't need root for that.  You only 
need root to make changes, such as enable/disable/start/stop.

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Re: Samsung ML-2165W printer help

[Fernando Cassia]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Fernando Cassia  wrote:
>
> Check this list archives, I remember ranting against this printer and
> Samsung´s packaging of its linux drivers.

The thread subject line was : "Samsung laser drivers for Linux - thinking aloud"

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-February/431096.html
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Re: Adding minimal X windows

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 2014-06-01 at 11:24 -0400, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote:
> I usually just intall xterm.  It will get the minimum you need.  If
> you want a window manager as well as min X, install it too ( I usually
> us fvwm for cases like that ). 

Installing xterm doesn't work. Apparently, for many of these X-based
tools, nobody thought to include X as a dependency.

$ sudo yum install xterm
[sudo] password for mjs: 
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package xterm.x86_64 0:297-1.fc20 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved



 Package Arch VersionRepository 
   Size


Installing:
 xterm   x86_64   297-1.fc20 fedora 
  461 k

Transaction Summary


Install  1 Package

Total download size: 461 k
Installed size: 1.2 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
xterm-297-1.fc20.x86_64.rpm| 461 kB   
00:02 
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
  Installing : xterm-297-1.fc20.x86_64  
1/1 
  Verifying  : xterm-297-1.fc20.x86_64  
1/1 

Installed:
  xterm.x86_64 0:297-1.fc20 


Complete!

Xfce Desktop still pulls a bunch of multimedia and such.

I have it at least partially working by installing xorg-x11-xinit, which
pulled in a few other packages, and adding PackageKit-gtk3-module by
hand.

Thanks, though.

> 
> - Derrik 
> 
> On Jun 1, 2014 10:54 AM, "Matthew Saltzman"  wrote:
> I built a Fedora 20 system as a server, without a desktop.  It
> turns
> out, no X server is installed at all in that case.  I'd like
> to add a
> minimal X server without adding a complete desktop
> environment, so I can
> log in remotely and run system configuration tools.  The
> documentation
> I've found suggests
> 
> yum groupinstall "Basic X Window System"
> 
> or
> 
> yum groupinstall "X Window System"
> 
> but neither of those groups exist.  There is a Basic Desktop
> group, but
> it installs a bunch of unnecessary desktop tools.
> 
> What's the best way to get just a basic X server in Fedora 20?
> 
> TIA.
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Re: Samsung ML-2165W printer help

[Fernando Cassia]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Mike Wright  wrote:
> Note: there is no such named package and their is neither a file named
> "cdroot" nor one named "autorun".

Check this list archives, I remember ranting against this printer and
Samsung´s packaging of its linux drivers.
As far as I remember, drivers were distributed as a giant .tar.gz
binary blob and you must then unpack and run an installer that failed
to do its job properly.

If this isn't the guy to blame, then probably he knows who's
responsible for the Linux driver packaging
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/muthukumar-subramanian/1b/410/a96

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Re: Samsung ML-2165W printer help

[Arthur Dent]

On Sun, 2014-06-01 at 09:39 -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just bought the Samsung ML-2165W/XAC printer because it advertised Linux 
> support.  Downloaded and installed the driver (it claims installation 
> successful).
> 
> The user manual seems to be flat out wrong.  The Linux install 
> directions seem to be for Windows.
> 
> 
> "
> When the Administrator Login window appears, type "root" in the Login 
> field and enter the system password.
> 
> You must log in as a super user (root) to install the machine software. 
> If you are not a super user, ask your system administrator.
> 
>  From the Samsung website, download the Unified Linux Driver package to 
> your computer.
> 
> Right-click the Unified Linux Driver package and extract the package.
> 
> Double click cdroot > autorun.
> "
> 
> Note: there is no such named package and their is neither a file named 
> "cdroot" nor one named "autorun".
> 
> At any rate, when I attempt to print a page the printer's activity light 
> flashes for a long time then stops.  CUPS reports "completed".
> 
> This occurs regardless of whether there is paper loaded or not.
> 
> Cups isn't being very helpful here either.  Almost anything 
> administrator related tells me "Forbidden", but nowhere can I find a way 
> to "Login" to it.

I can't help with the printer specifically, but with cups, you need to
point your browser to port 631 of the address of the machine where your
cups server is running (192.168.2.1:631 in my case). This should bring
up the cups home page for your cups server. If it doesn't check that
cups is running (as root: "systemctl status cups.service").

On that page there should be several tabs along the top, the second of
which is "administration". When you click on that tab it will say
something like "Upgrade required You must access this page using the URL
https://192.168.2.1:631/admin"; and will then pop up a log-in box. Use
"root" and your root password. You should then be able to add the
printer from there...

> Part of me says the driver doesn't work and part of me says the printer 
> is DOA.
> 
> Has anybody else had any success with this particular printer model?
> 
> Thanks for any help or tips,

Good luck!



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Re: Samsung ML-2165W printer help

[Mark LaPierre]

On 06/01/14 12:39, Mike Wright wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just bought the Samsung ML-2165W/XAC printer because it advertised Linux
> support.  Downloaded and installed the driver (it claims installation
> successful).
> 
> The user manual seems to be flat out wrong.  The Linux install
> directions seem to be for Windows.
> 
> 
> "
> When the Administrator Login window appears, type "root" in the Login
> field and enter the system password.
> 
> You must log in as a super user (root) to install the machine software.
> If you are not a super user, ask your system administrator.
> 
> From the Samsung website, download the Unified Linux Driver package to
> your computer.
> 
> Right-click the Unified Linux Driver package and extract the package.
> 
> Double click cdroot > autorun.
> "
> 
> Note: there is no such named package and their is neither a file named
> "cdroot" nor one named "autorun".
> 
> At any rate, when I attempt to print a page the printer's activity light
> flashes for a long time then stops.  CUPS reports "completed".
> 
> This occurs regardless of whether there is paper loaded or not.
> 
> Cups isn't being very helpful here either.  Almost anything
> administrator related tells me "Forbidden", but nowhere can I find a way
> to "Login" to it.
> 
> Part of me says the driver doesn't work and part of me says the printer
> is DOA.
> 
> Has anybody else had any success with this particular printer model?
> 
> Thanks for any help or tips,
> Mike Wright

I have an ML-1740 that works perfectly.  I share it out with SAMBA to my
wife's Win 7 laptop.

Samsung is a bit club handed but they were among the first to support
Linux long before it became fashionable.  In their early driver package
one of the CUP filters was installed with the wrong permissions.  When I
fixed that all was well.  It's probably something simple like that.

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Re: Samsung ML-2165W printer help

[Heinz Diehl]

On 01.06.2014, Mike Wright wrote: 

> Just bought the Samsung ML-2165W/XAC printer because it advertised Linux
> support.
[]

> Has anybody else had any success with this particular printer model?

Just return the crap to Samsung. Don't waste time.

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Samsung ML-2165W printer help

[Mike Wright]

Hi all,

Just bought the Samsung ML-2165W/XAC printer because it advertised Linux 
support.  Downloaded and installed the driver (it claims installation 
successful).


The user manual seems to be flat out wrong.  The Linux install 
directions seem to be for Windows.



"
When the Administrator Login window appears, type "root" in the Login 
field and enter the system password.


You must log in as a super user (root) to install the machine software. 
If you are not a super user, ask your system administrator.


From the Samsung website, download the Unified Linux Driver package to 
your computer.


Right-click the Unified Linux Driver package and extract the package.

Double click cdroot > autorun.
"

Note: there is no such named package and their is neither a file named 
"cdroot" nor one named "autorun".


At any rate, when I attempt to print a page the printer's activity light 
flashes for a long time then stops.  CUPS reports "completed".


This occurs regardless of whether there is paper loaded or not.

Cups isn't being very helpful here either.  Almost anything 
administrator related tells me "Forbidden", but nowhere can I find a way 
to "Login" to it.


Part of me says the driver doesn't work and part of me says the printer 
is DOA.


Has anybody else had any success with this particular printer model?

Thanks for any help or tips,
Mike Wright
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Re: Adding minimal X windows

[Derrik Walker v2.0]

I usually just intall xterm.  It will get the minimum you need.  If you
want a window manager as well as min X, install it too ( I usually us fvwm
for cases like that ).

- Derrik
On Jun 1, 2014 10:54 AM, "Matthew Saltzman"  wrote:

> I built a Fedora 20 system as a server, without a desktop.  It turns
> out, no X server is installed at all in that case.  I'd like to add a
> minimal X server without adding a complete desktop environment, so I can
> log in remotely and run system configuration tools.  The documentation
> I've found suggests
>
> yum groupinstall "Basic X Window System"
>
> or
>
> yum groupinstall "X Window System"
>
> but neither of those groups exist.  There is a Basic Desktop group, but
> it installs a bunch of unnecessary desktop tools.
>
> What's the best way to get just a basic X server in Fedora 20?
>
> TIA.
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Adding minimal X windows

[Matthew Saltzman]

I built a Fedora 20 system as a server, without a desktop.  It turns
out, no X server is installed at all in that case.  I'd like to add a
minimal X server without adding a complete desktop environment, so I can
log in remotely and run system configuration tools.  The documentation
I've found suggests 

yum groupinstall "Basic X Window System"

or

yum groupinstall "X Window System"

but neither of those groups exist.  There is a Basic Desktop group, but
it installs a bunch of unnecessary desktop tools.

What's the best way to get just a basic X server in Fedora 20?

TIA.
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Re: Caching nameserver for home network

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 06/01/2014 08:00 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

I'm trying to set up a caching name server on a server on my home
network.  All the instructions I've been able to find online refer to
the caching-nameserver RPM, but that doesn't seem to be available in
Fedora 20.  So my questions are:
   * What happened to caching-nameserver?
   * What (if anything) has replaced it?
   * Are there any good, easy *current* instructions for doing this?
 It seems like it should be a fairly cookbook task, so I
 shouldn't have to learn all about bind to accomplish it.


As I recall, the caching-nameserver rpm was just the basic zone files 
for a caching nameserver.  So you install bind and set it up following 
any tutorial you choose for this purpose.


Or you can go with dns-masq which as I recall defaults this way.


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Re: Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?

[nomnex]

> On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 07:35:43 -0400
> Robert Moskowitz  wrote:
>
> Try LiveCD and see if it will boot without trying to install.

And see bug comment 4 or 21 if you are low on RAM

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708966

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Caching nameserver for home network

[Matthew Saltzman]

I'm trying to set up a caching name server on a server on my home
network.  All the instructions I've been able to find online refer to
the caching-nameserver RPM, but that doesn't seem to be available in
Fedora 20.  So my questions are: 
  * What happened to caching-nameserver? 
  * What (if anything) has replaced it? 
  * Are there any good, easy *current* instructions for doing this?
It seems like it should be a fairly cookbook task, so I
shouldn't have to learn all about bind to accomplish it.

TIA
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Re: Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?

[Robert Moskowitz]

Try LiveCD and see if it will boot without trying to install.

There is one possible issue in that the base is really i686 these days 
and you really might be too old of a processor.


On 06/01/2014 07:19 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:


 Hello,

  I downloaded and verified the DVD image for Fedora 20, 32bit. Burned 
two DVDs already, but neither will boot. I get a black screen with a 
blinking cursor in the corner for a while, and then it will skip the 
DVD. If I disable all other boot devices, it will say no OS has been 
found.


  Thoughts?

  Thanks!

 Best,
 Oliver



On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Roger > wrote:


Just try - Fedora 20 installed fine on all 2GB RAM machines, I've
tried.

Yep, I too run Fedora 20 x86_64 on my 2gig memory desktop and on
the 2 gig Dell 1520 laptop.
Installed no problems, works a treat.

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Re: Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 05/31/2014 04:36 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:


 Hello,

  I need a new OS for an old computer, an about 10 years old x86. I 
upgraded RAM from 500MB to 2GB, though Windows XP reports 1.99 GB.


  I would have installed Fedora, but they say the requirements are at 
least 4GB RAM.


  Is there any Linux distro similar to Fedora that works for 1.99 GB RAM?

  I'd love to use KDE, although if it really doesn't work, I could 
also settle for Xfce.


I regularly run Fedora AND Centos on older systems, but normally only 5 
years old.  Both continue to support 32 bit and as long as memory is 
really 1GB install graphically just fine.  If memory is less, then they 
go to text based install.


Further, although RHEL7 is saying 64 bit only, there will be a Centos 7 
SIG that will do a 32 bit version.


So you should be fine.


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Re: Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

 Hello,

  I downloaded and verified the DVD image for Fedora 20, 32bit. Burned two
DVDs already, but neither will boot. I get a black screen with a blinking
cursor in the corner for a while, and then it will skip the DVD. If I
disable all other boot devices, it will say no OS has been found.

  Thoughts?

  Thanks!

 Best,
 Oliver



On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Roger  wrote:

> Just try - Fedora 20 installed fine on all 2GB RAM machines, I've tried.
>
> Yep, I too run Fedora 20 x86_64 on my 2gig memory desktop and on the 2 gig
> Dell 1520 laptop.
> Installed no problems, works a treat.
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Re: Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?

[Roger]

Just try - Fedora 20 installed fine on all 2GB RAM machines, I've tried.

Yep, I too run Fedora 20 x86_64 on my 2gig memory desktop and on the 2 
gig Dell 1520 laptop.

Installed no problems, works a treat.
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