Re: Booting a gazillion linuxes?

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:46:38PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:24:45 + > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > Is there a reason you want to chainload them (except for Windows of > > course)? > > I don't care about chainloading so much, but I want them all to > have independen

Re: harware raid and fedora 10

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Wilson a écrit : > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 08:59:24AM +0100, François Patte wrote: >> I would like to install f10 with hardware raid on two HD. >> >> I selected the adhoc options in my bios and the two HD are recognised as >> one volume by the BI

Re: Something Broke My Grub

2009/3/4 Michael Schwendt : > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:20:50 +, Dave wrote: > >> An hour ago I had a fully functioning machine. Now I just get the word >> "GRUB" in the top left of the screen. Something has gone wrong in the >> last hour or so. > > Has happened to many people before: > https://bug

Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Steve Searle wrote: > http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only > > Steve They also have a "Linux Starter pack" (Beginner's guide to setting-up & using Ubuntu Linux, 130 pg PDF) for download- http://www.tuxradar.com/linuxstarterpack,

Re: How to re-lock ssh private key?

Todd Zullinger wrote: I do appreciate the efforts of the gnome keyring folks, but the documentation is sorely lacking, and having undocumented magic in the area of crypto key handling is not something that gives me warm fuzzies. I believe the documentation wasn't written because services were

Re: How to re-lock ssh private key?

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Another thing that appears not to work with the gnome version of the ssh-agent is "ssh-add -d" or "ssh-add -D". Not good. I think you're confused by the fact that the identities are still listed by "ssh-add -l". They're certainly deactivated and require a passph

Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours

On 3/3/09, Steve Searle wrote: > > http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only > Dammit! Missed it. Does anyone have a copy they can email me? The site says we can share with friends ;-) TIA -- -jp I hope if dogs ever take over the world and they choose a king

Re: Strange Thunderbird IMAP problem

John Thompson wrote: > Another, perhaps related anomaly on the Fedora machine: xterm no longer > accepts input from the keyboard. Gnome Terminal works fine. Konsole > works fine. XFCE Terminal works fine. aterm works fine. xterm doesn't. I > recompiled xterm from sources and reinstalled it. Still n

Re: FC10, Virtualization , Windows XP

Michael Eager wrote: > Actually, it turns out that the software virtualization is > just as fast as the hardware virtualization, perhaps even > faster. Lots of reasons, but one is that once the VM software > rewrites a section of priviledged code, it never touches > it again. With the hardware vi

Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > A word on terminology: BT clients (and torrent sites) talk about Seeders > and Leechers. The only difference between the two is that Leechers are > still downloading part of the torrent, while Seeders have finished > downloading. Both types are uploading. Sometimes "le

Re: Dual boot WinXP repair (maybe a little OT)

On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 02:06 +, Dave Bolt IT Solutions wrote: > Well, I can't help much with the repair at this point, but I wander why you > moved the XP partition. As I said elsewhere, I did it without thinking, from the days when /boot needed to be in the first 1024 cylinders on the disk.

Re: FC10, Virtualization , Windows XP

Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:09:04 -0500 Jim wrote: FC 10/KDE what is the best Virtualization program for FC10, to run Windows XP in. I understand because my AMD Athlon doesn't have a "svm" feature I can't run KVM, and VM Ware is slow ? Anything you use will be slow without the

Re: Dual monitors KDE 4.2 - no panel, no keyboard focus

Ron Siven wrote: On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Michael Eager > wrote: Michael Eager wrote: Hi -- I have dual monitors using Nvidia Twinview. I have both displays working. The primary display has the panel, plasmoids, etc. I

Re: Strange Thunderbird IMAP problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 16:09 -0600, John Thompson wrote: >> I can send mail from the desktop machine via gmail's smtp service, but >> copying the sent message to the IMAP folder fails, because the >> connection cannot be es

Re: kmod-nvidia is missing for kernel 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10

Linuxguy123 wrote: The kmod-nvidia package is missing for kernel 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10. Yes, I know it is based on proprietary code. Lets not get into that. Its still missing. I make this post in case the powers that be don't realize its missing. Thanks for listening. I also did not find

Re: F10: system-config-services - hangs?

Daniel B. Thurman writes: For some reason or another, I cannot seem to get system-config-services to work. It chugs along with the greyed-out (inaccessable) list and then simply hangs. Killing this app leaves a process around unless killed. Works fine with F9, but avoiding certain services t

Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours

On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 01:51 +, Dave Bolt IT Solutions wrote: > > > > I'll have to look further into this. It appears that I'm downloading using > > torrent, but not giving anything back (seeding). > > > > Nigel. > > > >From what I've seen, you have to complete downloading a file before it will

F10: system-config-services - hangs?

For some reason or another, I cannot seem to get system-config-services to work. It chugs along with the greyed-out (inaccessable) list and then simply hangs. Killing this app leaves a process around unless killed. Works fine with F9, but avoiding certain services that causes hangs but I am no

Re: Booting a gazillion linuxes?

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 16:46:38 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:24:45 + > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > Is there a reason you want to chainload them (except for Windows of > > course)? > > I don't care about chainloading so much, but I want them all to > have independently ow

Re: Something is Fishy About My Network

Marc Ferguson wrote: Hi, I'm running Fedora 10 x86_64 and I really think something is odd about my ability to network and I think it's all pointing to DNS. First, I've been running Linux (full time) for almost a year, but I am still a newb. There are still some Windows concepts that I haven

Re: Dual boot WinXP repair (maybe a little OT)

Well, I can't help much with the repair at this point, but I wander why you moved the XP partition. When I first installed Fedora (core 8), I first installed XP since Microsoft don't like to share with other OS's, into a partition at the beginning of the first drive, leaving a second partition t

Something is Fishy About My Network

Hi, I'm running Fedora 10 x86_64 and I really think something is odd about my ability to network and I think it's all pointing to DNS. First, I've been running Linux (full time) for almost a year, but I am still a newb. There are still some Windows concepts that I haven't been able to shake yet,

Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours

I'll have to look further into this. It appears that I'm downloading using torrent, but not giving anything back (seeding). Nigel. From what I've seen, you have to complete downloading a file before it will start seeding. At least that's what happened when I downloaded some iso images recentl

Re: FC10, Virtualization , Windows XP

Tom Horsley wrote: > The original question was about running Windows XP. I've never heard of > a paravirt kernel generally available for XP, and without paravirt > it needs the hardware emulation (or the sort of software emulation > vmware does which I didn't think xen had incorporated, but maybe I

Re: FC10, Virtualization , Windows XP

On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 00:54:47 + (GMT) M A Young wrote: > But they aren't all as slow as vmware, nor is hardware virtualization > required for a faster solution, for example Xen does very well without > needing hardware support. The original question was about running Windows XP. I've never he

Re: practically no volume in f9

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 09:10:08AM -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 18:00 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > > I'm experiencing almost no volume with youtube videos on f9. > > Pulseaudio says the volume is at max. Is pulseaudio causing > > this problem? > > open the 'mixer' applicat

Re: practically no volume in f9

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:42:39AM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Thursday 05 March 2009 00:00, Dave Feustel wrote: > > I'm experiencing almost no volume with youtube videos on f9. > > Pulseaudio says the volume is at max. Is pulseaudio causing > > this problem? > > > > Thanks. > > Hi Dave. I'm no

Re: Setting gnome-terminal default size

Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: Is there any way to make gnome-terminal have a default size of (say) 90 wide x 30 high, rather than the system default of 80x24? I am getting tired of setting the size every time I start the system. Thanks - jon For gnome, go to System > Preferences > Person

Re: FC10, Virtualization , Windows XP

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:09:04 -0500 Jim wrote: FC 10/KDE what is the best Virtualization program for FC10, to run Windows XP in. I understand because my AMD Athlon doesn't have a "svm" feature I can't run KVM, and VM Ware is slow ? Anything you use will

Re: NetworkManager do not work with WIFI

Hi, I found it. In system-config-network I update the device eth0, and check the option "Manage by NetworkManager". And of course, save the configuration en File --> Save Good bye, and thank you again. 2009/3/5 Javier Gaiano > Thank you Craig for your suggestion. It is a graphical way to enab

Re: Dual boot WinXP repair (maybe a little OT)

I saw a similar issue in my lab. Check the boot.ini file that is used by the Windows boot loader. It lists the disk and partition information, and if you change the partitions this number will be wrong. You might be able to change the partition number, and it might work. On 4 Mar 2009 at 18:2

Re: Clarification on roles of networking components.

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 15:57 -0500, Flaschen, Matthew S wrote: > > Now I've caught up on some sleep I can continue with a clearer head. > > The single server has 2 nics, one internal the other to the dsl > router. > > For now internal name resolution and dhcp is the issue, but more > > internal serv

Re: Perl modules <---> Fedora RPMs (Test::More)

Geoffrey Leach wrote: > Install _minimal_ Perl as rpms. That's just perl and whatever comes > with it on yum install. Then get the CPAN rpm, and whatever comes with > it. And that doesn't work when other Fedora packages (which are not 100% Perl or which aren't on CPAN for some other reason) requir

Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours

On Wednesday 04 March 2009, Nigel Henry wrote: >On Wednesday 04 March 2009 22:06, phil wrote: >> Nigel Henry wrote: >> > On Wednesday 04 March 2009 15:05, Paul W. Frields wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 08:42:29PM +, Steve Searle wrote: >> >>> http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-f

Re: FC10, Virtualization , Windows XP

On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:09:04 -0500 Jim wrote: > FC 10/KDE > what is the best Virtualization program for FC10, to run Windows XP in. > I understand because my AMD Athlon doesn't have a "svm" feature I can't > run KVM, and VM Ware is slow ? Anything you use will be slow without the hardware virtua

Re: Text editor won't let me edit conf files. How do I?

Rangeen Basu wrote: > you can also use this command: > > su -c 'gedit /etc/your_file.conf' > Password: Using su with GUI apps can lead to X11 sockets and the like getting wrong permissions and screwing up that user's configuration. YMMV. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-

FC10, Virtualization , Windows XP

FC 10/KDE what is the best Virtualization program for FC10, to run Windows XP in. I understand because my AMD Athlon doesn't have a "svm" feature I can't run KVM, and VM Ware is slow ? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fed

Re: NetworkManager do not work with WIFI

Thank you Craig for your suggestion. It is a graphical way to enable the device (instead of typing 'ifup'). But the problem in the nm-applet continues. I try to restart NetworkManager service but nothing changes. And finally I kill the nm-applet process and restart it, but network options are stil

Re: Perl modules <---> Fedora RPMs (Test::More)

On 03/04/2009 11:12:33 AM, Dave Cross wrote: > 2009/3/4 Reber, Simon : > > I suggest to download the tar.gz package from http://www.cpan.de > and > install it using: > >        perl Makefile.PL > >        make > >        make install > > Firstly, if you're going to point someone at CPAN then plea

Re: practically no volume in f9

On Thursday 05 March 2009 00:00, Dave Feustel wrote: > I'm experiencing almost no volume with youtube videos on f9. > Pulseaudio says the volume is at max. Is pulseaudio causing > this problem? > > Thanks. Hi Dave. I'm not too impressed with pulseaudio, but that aside, first try the following com

Re: Strange Thunderbird IMAP problem

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 16:09 -0600, John Thompson wrote: > I can send mail from the desktop machine via gmail's smtp service, but > copying the sent message to the IMAP folder fails, because the > connection cannot be established. Not really an answer to your question, but you should note that it's

Re: Dual boot WinXP repair (maybe a little OT)

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 15:36 -0500, Mauriat wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > So I installed WinXP on an old computer, then repartitioned with > > qparted. I added a partition in front of the Windows one for /boot and > > one after for a LVM volume. Then I install

Re: Dual boot WinXP repair (maybe a little OT)

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 13:53 -0800, suvayu ali wrote: > 2009/3/4 Matthew Saltzman : > > I re-numbered the partitions so that /boot is sda1, Windows is sda2, and > > the rest is sda3. There is no extended partition. > > > > Now WinXP won't boot. > > > did you change the corresponding chainload line i

Re: practically no volume in f9

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 18:00 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > I'm experiencing almost no volume with youtube videos on f9. > Pulseaudio says the volume is at max. Is pulseaudio causing > this problem? open the 'mixer' application. check to see that the PCM channel is visible (if not add it) and ra

Re: My fedora freeze it

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Craig White wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 16:47 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Aldo Foot wrote: >> > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> >> I can confirm a lot of freezes in F9 as well. They seemed to hav

practically no volume in f9

I'm experiencing almost no volume with youtube videos on f9. Pulseaudio says the volume is at max. Is pulseaudio causing this problem? Thanks. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.o

Re: My fedora freeze it

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 16:47 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Aldo Foot wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > >> I can confirm a lot of freezes in F9 as well. They seemed to have > >> started 2 kernels ago. > > Sorry, I forgot to mar

Re: My fedora freeze it

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Aldo Foot wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> I can confirm a lot of freezes in F9 as well. They seemed to have >> started 2 kernels ago. Sorry, I forgot to mark this thread. > On what type of system have you experienced the probl

Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours

On Wednesday 04 March 2009 22:06, phil wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Wednesday 04 March 2009 15:05, Paul W. Frields wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 08:42:29PM +, Steve Searle wrote: > >>> http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-onl > >>>y > > > > I havn't se

Re: My fedora freeze it

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Robin Laing wrote: > Aldo Foot wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Arthur Pemberton >> wrote: >>> >>> I can confirm a lot of freezes in F9 as well. They seemed to have >>> started 2 kernels ago. >> >> On what type of system have you experienced the probl

Re: Text editor won't let me edit conf files. How do I?

Aaron Konstam wrote: On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 00:17 +0530, Rangeen Basu wrote: I'm not good at the command line (Just past newbie). I try to edit .conf files to set up samba but the text editor tells me I don't have permission. All of the system admin functions ask me for authorization and the

Strange Thunderbird IMAP problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have 2 computers here running linux and using Thunderbird for email. One is a laptop, running Vectorlinux-4.2; the other is a desktop, running Fedora 10 x86_64. Thunderbird is configured identically on both to ccess to separate IMAP accounts. Until t

Re: Text editor won't let me edit conf files. How do I?

On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 00:17 +0530, Rangeen Basu wrote: > >> I'm not good at the command line (Just past newbie). I try to edit .conf > >> files to set up samba but the text editor tells me I don't have > >> permission. All of the system admin functions ask me for authorization > >> and then let m

Re: Dual boot WinXP repair (maybe a little OT)

2009/3/4 Matthew Saltzman : > I re-numbered the partitions so that /boot is sda1, Windows is sda2, and > the rest is sda3.  There is no extended partition. > > Now WinXP won't boot. > did you change the corresponding chainload line in grub.conf ? -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us f

Re: Booting a gazillion linuxes?

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:24:45 + Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Is there a reason you want to chainload them (except for Windows of > course)? I don't care about chainloading so much, but I want them all to have independently owned and operated /boot partitions so I don't have to fool with manually

Re: Clarification on roles of networking components.

Simon Slater wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 12:34 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Flaschen, Matthew S wrote: If he has internal servers that local hosts need access to. At the moment one server offering limited services internally, nothing external. For example.

Re: linkage problem?

On Wednesday 04 March 2009, James Wilkinson wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> I note that in kontrol->file associations, there are often 2 copies of >> firefox, presumably because when F10 installed itself, it installed 3.0.4 >> alongside the 3.0.6 install. I had yum remove the 3.0.4 version > >Kevin

Re: Booting a gazillion linuxes?

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:46:30PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > Any recommendations for the best way to organize a big > old disk chock full of different versions of linux so I > can boot different ones? > > For just a few linux versions, I've used a stand alone > grub and chainloaded different par

Re: What are these yum plugins for ? (kmod-nvidia related)

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 02:02:00PM -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 10:36 -0800, suvayu ali wrote: > > 2009/3/4 Axel Thimm : > > > Neither should the other plugins do, but at the very end you will only > > > know for sure if you start disabling them one by one. Edit > > > > > > /et

Re: kmod-nvidia is missing for kernel 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10

On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:03:00 -0700 Linuxguy123 wrote: > I disabled all my yum plugins. I still do not have access to the > kmod-nvidia package for this kernel. Any ideas ? How do I fix this ? Are you sure you have the correct repository enabled? (Note: Installed != Enabled) -- MELVILLE T

Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours

Nigel Henry wrote: On Wednesday 04 March 2009 15:05, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 08:42:29PM +, Steve Searle wrote: http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only I havn't seen a Linux Format mag since I moved to France in Sept 2004. No money f

Re: kmod-nvidia is missing for kernel 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 06:53 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I just ran yum update and it didn't install the new kmod-nvidia module. > > I ran yum list kmod-nvidia* and the new package isn't there. The new > > kmod-nvidia module is still not available on whatever mirror my compu

Re: What are these yum plugins for ? (kmod-nvidia related)

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 10:36 -0800, suvayu ali wrote: > 2009/3/4 Axel Thimm : > > Neither should the other plugins do, but at the very end you will only > > know for sure if you start disabling them one by one. Edit > > > > /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/*.conf > > > > and set > > > > enabled=0 > > > > to di

Re: Clarification on roles of networking components.

> Now I've caught up on some sleep I can continue with a clearer head. > The single server has 2 nics, one internal the other to the dsl router. > For now internal name resolution and dhcp is the issue, but more > internal services will be added down the road, as well as web server > usw. I starte

Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 21:41:55 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > How do these torrent downloads work, for instance with this PDF download? Say > for example If I get 90% of it downloaded, before I lose the torrent link. Am > I likely to be able to open the PDF, and view some of the pages, or am

Re: Skype and F9

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 10:29 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > Thanks for the feedback. Any comments on the various Skype headsets? None. I just use the speakers and a hand-mike. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Clarification on roles of networking components.

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 12:34 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Flaschen, Matthew S wrote: > >> If he has internal servers that local hosts need access to. > >> At the moment one server offering limited services internally, nothing external. > > > >> For example. If he is running an Netbios se

Re: linkage problem?

Gene Heskett wrote: > I note that in kontrol->file associations, there are often 2 copies of > firefox, presumably because when F10 installed itself, it installed 3.0.4 > alongside the 3.0.6 install. I had yum remove the 3.0.4 version Kevin Kofler wrote: > (And FYI, the version in F10 updates is

Re: Booting a gazillion linuxes?

Tom Horsley wrote: > Any recommendations for the best way to organize a big > old disk chock full of different versions of linux so I > can boot different ones? Virtualisation? James. -- E-mail: james@ | If infinite rednecks fired infinite shotguns at an aprilcottage.co.uk | infinite number

Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours

On Wednesday 04 March 2009 15:05, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 08:42:29PM +, Steve Searle wrote: > > http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only I havn't seen a Linux Format mag since I moved to France in Sept 2004. No money for the sub. Seein

Re: Dual boot WinXP repair (maybe a little OT)

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > So I installed WinXP on an old computer, then repartitioned with > qparted.  I added a partition in front of the Windows one for /boot and > one after for a LVM volume.  Then I installed F10.  I loaded grub in the > boot record of the /boot

Dual boot WinXP repair (maybe a little OT)

So I installed WinXP on an old computer, then repartitioned with qparted. I added a partition in front of the Windows one for /boot and one after for a LVM volume. Then I installed F10. I loaded grub in the boot record of the /boot partition and left the MBR alone. I re-numbered the partitions

Re: Dual monitors KDE 4.2 - no panel, no keyboard focus

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Michael Eager wrote: > Michael Eager wrote: > >> Hi -- >> >> I have dual monitors using Nvidia Twinview. I >> have both displays working. The primary display has >> the panel, plasmoids, etc. It seems to work OK. >> >> The secondary display only shows wallpaper.

Re: Booting a gazillion linuxes?

On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:01:29 -0500 Marland V. Pittman wrote: > On 3/3/2009 9:46 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > Any recommendations for the best way to organize a big > > old disk chock full of different versions of linux so I > > can boot different ones > Virtual Machine? Nope. I want real hardware b

Re: Something Broke My Grub

Michael Schwendt wrote: On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:20:50 +, Dave wrote: An hour ago I had a fully functioning machine. Now I just get the word "GRUB" in the top left of the screen. Something has gone wrong in the last hour or so. Has happened to many people before: https://bugzilla.red

Re: shrinking reiserfs partitions, filesystems

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 10:45 -0800, jackson byers wrote: > > I had thought that the size of a filesystem was just the amount > of stuff in there as given by df in the Used column > eg on my external usb /dev/sdc1 which is one large reiserfs partition > [r...@bootp ~]# df -kh > Filesystem

Re: My fedora freeze it

Aldo Foot wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Arthur Pemberton wrote: I can confirm a lot of freezes in F9 as well. They seemed to have started 2 kernels ago. On what type of system have you experienced the problem? Do you continually have this problem or have you been able to fix it? Doe

Re: Something Broke My Grub

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:20:50 +, Dave wrote: > An hour ago I had a fully functioning machine. Now I just get the word > "GRUB" in the top left of the screen. Something has gone wrong in the > last hour or so. Has happened to many people before: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/450143 > Here's what

Re: Keyboard settings are lost after each reboot

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:08 PM, phil wrote: >> Me too (keyboard reset to Arabic >> >> Thank goodness I found this (Google DOES have some purpose at times...) >> :).  I thought I was the only one.  Yup, a recent upgrade completely wiped >> away the UK keybard settings and reverts to Arabic after ea

Something Broke My Grub

An hour ago I had a fully functioning machine. Now I just get the word "GRUB" in the top left of the screen. Something has gone wrong in the last hour or so. Here's what I did. * Earlier today I ran a "yum update" which pulled in a new kernel. I didn't reboot the system at that point. * Later on

Re: Perl modules <---> Fedora RPMs (Test::More)

2009/3/4 Reber, Simon : > I suggest to download the tar.gz package from http://www.cpan.de and install > it using: >        perl Makefile.PL >        make >        make install Firstly, if you're going to point someone at CPAN then please use the canonical URL (http://www.cpan.org/) rather than a

Re: Dual monitors KDE 4.2 - no panel, no keyboard focus

Michael Eager wrote: Hi -- I have dual monitors using Nvidia Twinview. I have both displays working. The primary display has the panel, plasmoids, etc. It seems to work OK. The secondary display only shows wallpaper. Mouse clicks on the screen are ignored. I can start a program on the seco

Re: Perl modules <---> Fedora RPMs (Test::More)

2009/3/4 "Stanisław T. Findeisen" : > How can I know which RPM in Fedora release contains which Perl modules? In > particular I want to install Test::More, but don't know where to look for > that. :-/ I usually go and search for the module at http://search.cpan.org/. That'll tell you which CPAN di

Re: Keyboard settings are lost after each reboot

pgiffo wrote: Me too (keyboard reset to Arabic Thank goodness I found this (Google DOES have some purpose at times...) :). I thought I was the only one. Yup, a recent upgrade completely wiped away the UK keybard settings and reverts to Arabic after each reboot/shutdown. As soon as there is

Re: Booting a gazillion linuxes?

On 3/3/2009 9:46 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: Any recommendations for the best way to organize a big old disk chock full of different versions of linux so I can boot different ones Virtual Machine? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listi

Dual monitors KDE 4.2 - no panel, no keyboard focus

Hi -- I have dual monitors using Nvidia Twinview. I have both displays working. The primary display has the panel, plasmoids, etc. It seems to work OK. The secondary display only shows wallpaper. Mouse clicks on the screen are ignored. I can start a program on the second display by running

Fedora Classroom Classes this weeknd!

Just thought I would remind everyone that we are going to be holding some IRC Classes in the fedora classroom this weekend. Classes are held in #fedora-classroom on irc.freenode.net. Classes this weekend start at 18:00 UTC on both Saturday and Sunday. See: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Clas

Re: Text editor won't let me edit conf files. How do I?

>> I'm not good at the command line (Just past newbie).  I try to edit .conf >> files to set up samba but the text editor tells me I don't have >> permission.  All of the system admin functions ask me for authorization >> and then let me do whatever but not the text editor.  I have added the gdm >>

shrinking reiserfs partitions, filesystems

I am more than a little confused about the need to resize (shrink) a filesystem in addition to shrinking the partition ---from man resize_reiserfs SYNOPSIS resize_reiserfs [ -s [+|-]size[K|M|G] ] [ -j dev ] [ -fqv ] device DESCRIPTION The resize_reiserfs tool resizes an unmounted r

Re: What are these yum plugins for ? (kmod-nvidia related)

2009/3/4 Axel Thimm : > Neither should the other plugins do, but at the very end you will only > know for sure if you start disabling them one by one. Edit > > /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/*.conf > > and set > > enabled=0 > > to disable the plugin(s) and try again. or use yum --disableplugin=[plugin] --

Re: What are these yum plugins for ? (kmod-nvidia related)

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 10:47:54AM -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: > What are the following yum plugins for ? > > downloadonly, kmdl, priorities, refresh-packagekit > > Could any of them interfere with my ability to "see" (ie yum list) the > most recent kmod-nvidia package ? kmdl is the plugin to make

What are these yum plugins for ? (kmod-nvidia related)

What are the following yum plugins for ? downloadonly, kmdl, priorities, refresh-packagekit Could any of them interfere with my ability to "see" (ie yum list) the most recent kmod-nvidia package ? Thanks LG -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.

Re: Clarification on roles of networking components.

Flaschen, Matthew S wrote: If he has internal servers that local hosts need access to. For example. If he is running an Netbios server and the clients need to access shares on it. Right. He does not want the world to know about this NAS, Obviously. plus it proba

Re: xfce 4.6.0 for F9

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:05:52 -0700 Kevin Fenzi wrote: > F10 shouldn't be too bad. > > I do have a local repo here, but I haven't updated it yet to the 4.6.0 > final packages. Also, I haven't tried to rebuild all the plugins for > F10. > > I can update that and let you know where the repo is if you w

Re: FC10: Gnome/X focus broken after last update

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 16:44:39 +0100, Marco wrote: > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libgxim-0.3.2-4.fc10 > Unfortunately, the problem was not solved. Consider leaving feedback at the page linked above. Even if you don't have a Fedora account, you can add a comment. I'm also test-driving

Re: Clarification on roles of networking components.

> If he has internal servers that local hosts need access to. > For example. If he is running an Netbios server and the clients need to > access shares on it. Right. > He does not want the world to know about this NAS, Obviously. > plus it probably has an RFC1918 address. I would definitely

Re: F10, keyboard screen switching doesn't work

On Wednesday 04 March 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: >Greetings; > >When I was running F8, there were many things available on my keyboard, such >as the volume & mute control buttons on this logitech wireless keyboard >actually worked, and I could switch screens with something like the alt+ (or >ctl+ I

Fedora Classroom talk: Using the Windows cross-compiler

Date: Sunday, 8th March 2009 Time: 18:15 UTC [1] Location: Virtual -- #fedora-classroom on irc.freenode.net Details:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom#The_Current_Timeline Background: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Windows_cross_compiler IRC help: http

F10, keyboard screen switching doesn't work

Greetings; When I was running F8, there were many things available on my keyboard, such as the volume & mute control buttons on this logitech wireless keyboard actually worked, and I could switch screens with something like the alt+ (or ctl+ I forget which) F# key. This stuff no longer works o

Re: Clarification on roles of networking components.

Matthew Flaschen wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: Otherwise, you need a local BIND server, use Webmin to maintain it. I am very experienced with BIND, and still use Webmin. Why exactly do you think he needs BIND? If he has internal servers that local hosts need access to. For examp

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