On Saturday 09 May 2009 10:30:37 pm Robert L Cochran wrote:
> >> I have two Fedora laptops. I would like to have my /home partition as a
> >> separate partition on a network drive, such that when each laptop user
> >> logs in, his or her /home/[user] directory is mounted from the network
> >> drive
On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 00:53 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I think it is, although in the last year, the number of incidents of people
> coming to the amanda-users list for help with rpms has dropped noticeably. I
> have NDI if its because the rpms are now working "out of the box" or if its
> be
On Saturday 09 May 2009, Craig White wrote:
[...]
>If it puts the files in the same places (and for the life of me, I don't
>understand why would you have tarball installations install anywhere
>other than /usr/local)
I usually do use /usr/local for that, the exceptions being, for instance, when
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 10:40 PM, William Case wrote:
> Hi Mikkel;
>
>
> On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 21:10 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> William Case wrote:
>> > Hi Mikkel;
>> >
>> > On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 15:14 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> >> William Case wrote:
>> >
>
>> > Perhaps you cou
Hi Mikkel;
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 21:10 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> William Case wrote:
> > Hi Mikkel;
> >
> > On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 15:14 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> >> William Case wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps you could glance at it and see if there is anything I have over
> > looke
On 05/09/2009 11:16 PM, Craig White wrote:
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 22:35 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
I have two Fedora laptops. I would like to have my /home partition as a
separate partition on a network drive, such that when each laptop user
logs in, his or her /home/[user] directory is m
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 22:35 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> I have two Fedora laptops. I would like to have my /home partition as a
> separate partition on a network drive, such that when each laptop user
> logs in, his or her /home/[user] directory is mounted from the network
> drive. But I do
I have two Fedora laptops. I would like to have my /home partition as a
separate partition on a network drive, such that when each laptop user
logs in, his or her /home/[user] directory is mounted from the network
drive. But I don't know how to do this. Suggestions?
Thanks
Bob
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For just one or two systems I would use G4U by Hubert Feyrer (
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ ) or G4L by Michael D. Setzer II (please see
his post in this thread.) I like to clone an entire hard disk and then
store the clone offsite.
I have not used G4L enough to gain real experience with it. I sh
William Case wrote:
> Hi Mikkel;
>
> On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 15:14 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> William Case wrote:
>
>> Dumb question - did you check the mixer settings - You may have to
>> enable another input in the ALSA mixer. You may also have a mixer
>> for the TX card to set its volu
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson
wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> In my case, the audio output of my card, a pcHDTV-3000, is jumpered to the
>> microphone input on my audigy2 (sb0400 chipset), and the tvtime audio is then
>> via the mic channel of my audio card. The jumper is
Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> In my case, the audio output of my card, a pcHDTV-3000, is jumpered to the
> microphone input on my audigy2 (sb0400 chipset), and the tvtime audio is then
> via the mic channel of my audio card. The jumper is about 6" long. Works
> great. But here in the US, we only h
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 8:30 PM, William Case wrote:
> Thanks Gene;
>
> On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 19:48 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 09 May 2009, William Case wrote:
>> >Hi;
>> >
>> >tvtime gives me a great picture but no sound.
>> >
>> [...]
>>
>> You are aware that tvtime does not have a
I have an old edition of the book Unix Backup and Recovery by W. Curtis
Preston. It is out of print now, but is available on Safari Books
Online. Preston had, or still does have, a website devoted to Unix
backup. Amanda was treated as but one backup option of many. There is a
pretty good discus
Thanks Gene;
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 19:48 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 09 May 2009, William Case wrote:
> >Hi;
> >
> >tvtime gives me a great picture but no sound.
> >
> [...]
>
> You are aware that tvtime does not have a digital audio path aren't you?
>
Yes. I am doing the whole thi
Fedora 9
Yesterday and today I get while updating one of my machines:
Error: Missing Dependency: libcucul.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package
On 64bit machine without mplayer:
# yum update
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package PyQt4.x86_64 0:4.4.4-6.fc9 set to be updat
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 19:32 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> So where does the rpm install it? Should it not find stuff in /bin before it
> looks in /usr/bin? And in /usr/lib before it looks in /usr/local/lib (or
> libexec).??
>
> However, my $PATH has those locations interchanged. I don't recal
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 19:32 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >
> >You already stated the answer...you don't know what you're doing when it
> >comes to rpm. Don't glorify your lack of knowledge with the fact that
> >you're using some alpha version. The simple fact is that Fedora, like
> >all Red Hat sys
I got a request to update libcaca.i386.0.99-0.7.beta16.fc9,
from rpmfusion, and it required that I remove the following
dependencies:
xine vlc mplayer-gui mplayer
and in doing so, it also removed:
devede dvdstyler gecko-mediaplayer gnome-mplayer
gnome-mplayer-common k9copy kino kmediafactory
k
On Saturday 09 May 2009, Craig White wrote:
>On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 12:17 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 09 May 2009, Craig White wrote:
>> >On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 11:28 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >> On Saturday 09 May 2009, GMS S wrote:
>> >> >What is the best and easy way to backup wh
Gregory Machin wrote:
Hi
I have a drive from a software raid set that I'm trying to reformat.
When I try and reformat it i get the following results
[r...@ns ~]# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdc1
mke2fs 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
/dev/sdc1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here!
I see
On Saturday 09 May 2009, William Case wrote:
>Hi;
>
>tvtime gives me a great picture but no sound.
>
[...]
You are aware that tvtime does not have a digital audio path aren't you?
In my case, the audio output of my card, a pcHDTV-3000, is jumpered to the
microphone input on my audigy2 (sb0400 ch
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 22:23 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Saturday 09 May 2009 20:22, William Case wrote:
> > Hi;
> >
> > tvtime gives me a great picture but no sound.
> >
> > mplayer gives me a terrible picture and no sound.
> >
> > (terrible = inverted picture with green background; just black a
On Sat, 9 May 2009 14:55:25 -0700
NiftyFedora Mitch wrote:
> My Oh My If you have stuff that needs to be 'erased' after a
> disk dies you also have stuff that needs to be 'erased' on
> the live disk.
Actually, I keep anything important on a truecrypt encrypted
disk image, which (in theory) lo
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On 05/09/2009 12:26 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Tom Horsley wrote:
>> On Sat, 9 May 2009 08:02:22 -0500
>> Dave Ihnat wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm...just curious; why didn't you just cat /dev/zero >/dev/sdc?
>>
>> I don't think cat knows when to stop.
>>
>> I alwa
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 09 May 2009 13:26:29 -0400
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
>> Definitely what you do before scrapping old drives.
>
> The trouble is I never scrap drives until they have
> physically stopped working, and it is too late to
> write on them at th
Hi Mikkel;
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 15:14 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> William Case wrote:
> Dumb question - did you check the mixer settings - You may have to
> enable another input in the ALSA mixer. You may also have a mixer
> for the TX card to set its volume level.
>
> I know that with
On Sat, 09 May 2009 13:06:33 -0700
Linux Media wrote:
> I thought the platters had dangerous chemicals. If this is true, you
> sure you want them on your refrigerator?
The neodymium magnets can be dangerous if you break them into
fragments and eat or inhale them, if you just leave them in one
pi
On Saturday 09 May 2009 20:22, William Case wrote:
> Hi;
>
> tvtime gives me a great picture but no sound.
>
> mplayer gives me a terrible picture and no sound.
>
> (terrible = inverted picture with green background; just black and
> magenta for colours; and vertical lines running through it.)
>
>
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> NiftyFedora Mitch wrote:
>>
>> Plugins for 64 bit Firefox are a tangle.
>> This is especially so if Opera and other
>> browsers are installed.
>> An 'alternates' solution for Firefox(32|64)
>> would be nice.
>> Not as nice as a Adobe moving to
William Case wrote:
> Hi;
>
> tvtime gives me a great picture but no sound.
>
> mplayer gives me a terrible picture and no sound.
>
> (terrible = inverted picture with green background; just black and
> magenta for colours; and vertical lines running through it.)
>
> Is there a way to find out
On 5/9/2009 3:15 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>> On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 23:59 +0930, Tim wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 11:04 -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
What I don't understand is that this display adapter has worked
beautifully in fc4, fc6, and fc8 installations.
>>> Cha
Definitely what you do before scrapping old drives.
The trouble is I never scrap drives until they have
physically stopped working, and it is too late to
write on them at that point.
I have taken some apart though - almost as good, especially
after the platters get all scratched, mixed up, and
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On 05/09/2009 01:04 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> On 9 May 2009 at 6:15, GMS S wrote:
>
> Date sent:Sat, 9 May 2009 06:15:14 -0700 (PDT)
> From: GMS S
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Subject:
Hi Arthur;
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 13:32 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:22 PM, William Case wrote:
> > Hi;
> >
> > tvtime gives me a great picture but no sound.
>
> - What brand/model tv card do you have?
from tvtime -v; lspci etc,
videoinput: Using video4linux2 driver '
David responded with a list of things to try on my f10 X problems
...
> 7) Read:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines#Write_a_Good_Subject_Line
> and perhaps start a new thread, because currently the subject line of
> this long thread is not describing your current iss
Craig White wrote:
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 23:59 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 11:04 -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
What I don't understand is that this display adapter has worked
beautifully in fc4, fc6, and fc8 installations.
Changes in Xorg, over time... The difficulty with a live CD is
Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 12:51 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Is there some secret way to tell the installer that shrinking the sda7
makes room for sda8? I can install on a USB key, but that's not the
object, not is making the whole sda2 ext3 instead of ext4, which will
make performance com
Tom Horsley wrote:
On Sat, 09 May 2009 13:26:29 -0400
Bill Davidsen wrote:
Definitely what you do before scrapping old drives.
The trouble is I never scrap drives until they have
physically stopped working, and it is too late to
write on them at that point.
I have taken some apart though - a
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:22 PM, William Case wrote:
> Hi;
>
> tvtime gives me a great picture but no sound.
- What brand/model tv card do you have?
- how is it connected to the system?
- how is the audio of the card connected to the system?
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On Sat, 09 May 2009 13:26:29 -0400
Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Definitely what you do before scrapping old drives.
The trouble is I never scrap drives until they have
physically stopped working, and it is too late to
write on them at that point.
I have taken some apart though - almost as good, especi
Hi;
tvtime gives me a great picture but no sound.
mplayer gives me a terrible picture and no sound.
(terrible = inverted picture with green background; just black and
magenta for colours; and vertical lines running through it.)
Is there a way to find out which video codecs etc. tvtime is using
I am using 2 hourly backups via rdiff-backup which is built using
rsync libraries - it keeps a current tree of your backup and reverse
diffs as long as you need them. It works very well indeed. The first
backup takes a little longer as it indexes every file. After that its
really fast. Its in t
On 9 May 2009 at 6:15, GMS S wrote:
Date sent: Sat, 9 May 2009 06:15:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: GMS S
To: fedora-list@redhat.com
Subject:Backing up whole system
Send reply to: "Community assistance, encouragement,
and a
Steven W. Orr wrote:
I have some crappy laptop running windoze and I want to connect to my
home server to send and receive my mail. I got the dovecot/imap side
working but I need to know what to do to be allowed to use my server at
home which runs sendmail as my SMTP server. Is there a gentle h
When you try running yum again, it will inform you as to where the
lock is located (something like /var/run/yum.pid). Then just delete
it (`su -c 'rm /var/run/yum.pid'`). Just make sure that no other app
is currently using it (`su -c 'cat /var/run/yum.pid'`)
Hope this helps,
--
Armin Moradi
--
Tom Horsley wrote:
On Sat, 9 May 2009 08:02:22 -0500
Dave Ihnat wrote:
Hmm...just curious; why didn't you just cat /dev/zero >/dev/sdc?
I don't think cat knows when to stop.
I always use dd to restrict it to a few disk blocks - I find that
wiping the first 10K or so usually gets enough to ma
Dave Ihnat wrote:
On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 10:38:08AM +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
head -c 1000 /dev/zero >/dev/sdc
will zero a few megabytes and make the disk to appear perfectly clean.
Hmm...just curious; why didn't you just cat /dev/zero >/dev/sdc?
Think about the speed of USB and t
Roberto Ragusa wrote:
Janez Košmrlj wrote:
I upgraded to fedora 10 about a month ago. And since then mplayer
doesn't play videos smoothly. The sound is ok, but the video plays to
slow for a couple of seconds, then it plays to fast, to catch up with
the sound, then it slows down again and so o
On Sat, 09 May 2009 03:39:50 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Beartooth wrote:
[...]
>> Now I see what looks like Rahul replying to Rahul, with my posts not on
>> Gmane. I don't know how or why that happened.
>
> The list normally only accepts messages from subscribers, posts through
> Gmane
Hi
I have a drive from a software raid set that I'm trying to reformat.
When I try and reformat it i get the following results
[r...@ns ~]# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdc1
mke2fs 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
/dev/sdc1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here!
I see the drive has been marke
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 12:17 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 09 May 2009, Craig White wrote:
> >On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 11:28 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> On Saturday 09 May 2009, GMS S wrote:
> >> >What is the best and easy way to backup whole fedora 10?
> >>
> >> Since you picked two, be
Rahul Sundaram writes:
> I am doing a quick survey for software that you use on a regular basis
> that is not available via the Fedora repository. Software that you
> suggest should be free and open source, free of patent and other legal
> issues.
analog -- www logfile analyser and summary repor
On Saturday 09 May 2009, Craig White wrote:
>On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 11:28 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 09 May 2009, GMS S wrote:
>> >What is the best and easy way to backup whole fedora 10?
>>
>> Since you picked two, best, easy, and cheap (as in free) being a given,
>> amanda installed
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 23:59 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 11:04 -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
> > What I don't understand is that this display adapter has worked
> > beautifully in fc4, fc6, and fc8 installations.
>
> Changes in Xorg, over time... The difficulty with a live CD is that
> i
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 11:28 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 09 May 2009, GMS S wrote:
> >What is the best and easy way to backup whole fedora 10?
> >
> Since you picked two, best, easy, and cheap (as in free) being a given,
> amanda
> installed from the tarball, NOT the rpms. Easy might
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 13:26 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Mike Burger wrote:
>
> > It's actually very simple and painless.
>
> LVM is reasonably simple.
>
> But in my view its disadvantages -
> particularly the difficulty of dealing with any kind of corruption -
> far outweigh its advantages.
On Saturday 09 May 2009, GMS S wrote:
>What is the best and easy way to backup whole fedora 10?
>
Since you picked two, best, easy, and cheap (as in free) being a given, amanda
installed from the tarball, NOT the rpms. Easy might be relative though as
there is some setup and configuration to do
On Fri, 08 May 2009 14:48:24 -0700, Paul wrote:
>> Eventually, after various warnings, it does show both
>> the stick and the file system to put on it, as well as a live "Format"
>> button.
>>
>> Then nothing more happens. No matter how long I leave
>> it (up to half a day), gnome-format
DaveT - I appreciate your help.
I will have to wait for a while as I broke my arm.
I am in read-only mode for a while, unless I have a visitor.
Mick M.
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On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 10:22:03AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > Hmm...just curious; why didn't you just cat /dev/zero >/dev/sdc?
>
> I don't think cat knows when to stop.
Heh. It'll stop when the disk is full.
> I always use dd to restrict it to a few disk blocks - I find that
> wiping the fir
Hi,
I have god experience with partimage, which creates an image of your
partition with some few clicks. I've played already with two hard drives
and several partitions, moving them from drive 1 to 2 any vice versa.
As Tom mentioned, handling of bootable partitions (and by existence of
Windows) r
I've been struggling with a wireless issue for some time. I even
switched from Suse 11 to Fedora 10 trying to shake it (which was unfair
but I had other reasons too). The symptom is that the wireless
connectivity would hang periodically for 30 sec to 3 or 4 minutes. Long
enough to disrupt re
On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 12:27 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> And I admit that since I have other tools to view pdf files (xpdf
> mainly) that I have never felt any curiosity about evince, nor would
> I be likely to launch anything "just to see what happens."
I do. That's how I found out that XPDF w
On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 12:51 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Is there some secret way to tell the installer that shrinking the sda7
> makes room for sda8? I can install on a USB key, but that's not the
> object, not is making the whole sda2 ext3 instead of ext4, which will
> make performance compariso
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 10:22 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Of course if you are going for security, you might want to wipe
> the whole disk
Though, by doing more than just writing zeroes to the drive, once.
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[...@localhost ~]$ uname -r
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On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 11:04 -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
> What I don't understand is that this display adapter has worked
> beautifully in fc4, fc6, and fc8 installations.
Changes in Xorg, over time... The difficulty with a live CD is that
it's virtually fixed with the original software, no updates
On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 10:11 -0700, jackson byers wrote:
> first clearly identifying who wrote any msg i am quoting
> and then identifying my reply with "jbyers:" at the start
> of each block I am replying to.
> My reading of the guidelines i think says that is ok.
The difference between what y
On Sat, 09 May 2009 10:17:47 -0400
Bill Davidsen wrote:
> First, let me agree that the install does a dreadful job of picking screen
> mode.
> It seems that after the install you find that the display hardware is
> misidentified, and that changing that to "generic LCD" of suitable resolution
>
Tom Lane wrote:
Bill Davidsen writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
Hmm, as a boot option you mean? Doesn't seem to do anything at all,
I still see just the same behavior as with no option. Thanks for
suggesting something though ...
Using the "vga=ask" option on the boot line should give you something li
On Sat, 9 May 2009 08:02:22 -0500
Dave Ihnat wrote:
> Hmm...just curious; why didn't you just cat /dev/zero >/dev/sdc?
I don't think cat knows when to stop.
I always use dd to restrict it to a few disk blocks - I find that
wiping the first 10K or so usually gets enough to make the disk
look blan
On Sat, 9 May 2009 06:15:14 -0700 (PDT)
GMS S wrote:
> What is the best and easy way to backup whole fedora 10?
Personally I use rsync to a USB drive, but with any tools like
rsync, tar, or cpio, you will need to be able to get grub
re-installed outside of the normal "restore all files" process
i
Mike Wright wrote:
Hi all,
I've decided it was time to drink the KoolAid so I downloaded the "f10
Live CD", burned a bootable image, and hit reset. All in all pretty
impressive.
However, the screen resolution defaulted to 800x600, useless on a 22"
lcd display. In f->system->preferences->ha
平天韩 wrote:
>> You can try export KDEDIRS=/usr/local - no guarantee that it will work
>> though.
>>
> Unfortunately, this method doesn't solve the problem.
>From where are you running it? If it's within that Konsole, that's too late,
it needs to be set in the environment in which Konsole is run.
Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
> You don't need to do two operations, you can pass the file to the script:
> cat myfile | ssh -i myscript.key machine [optional args]
> the first command in the script is something like:
> dd of=safedir/new.myfile
>
> You can pass arguments to the script, they will end
Li Wang wrote:
>
> Hi everyone:
> I installed Fedora 10 on my 16G usb thumb disk by using Fedora 10 live
> CD, it is a real installation rather than live USB.
>
> Because the 'yum update' is too slow, I cancelled the process by press
> Ctrl+C, I actually did this 3 times, every time after I restar
Paul wrote:
Have you tried a plain old filesystem, such as ext3 or ext2, without LVM or
anything fancy schmancy?
Not that I am a big fan of Anaconda, far from it, but always go back to the
basics when other things don't work.
The problem is that we have had ext4 since FC9, and regressing the pe
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> In my view, adding an option that will only be used by 0.001% of users
> means that 99.99% of users have to read something that is of no use to
> them.
Then you would indeed probably be better off with GNOME rather than KDE.
Kevin Kofler
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Tom Lane wrote:
"Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" writes:
Valent Turkovic writes:
http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/index.php/archives/fedora-11-fail-because-of-anaconda/
The x86_64 Preview doesn't run here.
The PPC port has also gone largely untested, because it's impossible
to install it on Appl
>
> > I want to use konsole 1.6.6 within f10
>
> Why?
Because konsole 2.x loses some good features, such as "send input to all
sessions" and
dcop features.
>
> > so I installed kdebase3 and some other packages. And then, I compiled
> > konsole 1.6.6 from the source code. Everything seems OK besid
thanks
2009/5/9 Antonio M :
> 2009/5/9 Adel ESSAFI :
>> Hi List
>> I use firefox on F10 and i want to re install my system.
>> I just ask if it is possible to backup the preferences of firefox and
>> then import them later.
>>
>>
>> I have tried to keep the .mozille directory but, I did not work
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
I think you have lost sight of the user here, the average user would see
"evince" in a menu and have zero idea what it is and does.
The correct thing to write is "Evince Document Viewer" (or any permutation
of this). And the freedesktop.org .desktop fil
John W. Linville wrote:
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 10:30:13AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Jerry Feldman wrote:
Rather than screw with NDISWrapper, are you using a BroadCom NIC?
There is a native Broadcom driver in F10, but you need to load the
firmware. There is a utility called b43-fwcutter you
Jim wrote:
> FC10
>
> I was trying to setup a usb stick to fat16 FS , using Fdisk, I deleted
> the partition and was going to make a new one, did a 'w' to disk.
> But when I open fdisk /dev/sdc and do a 'l' , it lists only SunOS type
> partitions, how do I get back to where it lists the 'fat16' p
Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 10:38:08AM +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
>> head -c 1000 /dev/zero >/dev/sdc
>>
>> will zero a few megabytes and make the disk to appear perfectly clean.
>
> Hmm...just curious; why didn't you just cat /dev/zero >/dev/sdc?
>
Because it is a case of
What is the best and easy way to backup whole fedora 10?
Thanks.
Fedora 10.
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On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 10:38:08AM +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> head -c 1000 /dev/zero >/dev/sdc
>
> will zero a few megabytes and make the disk to appear perfectly clean.
Hmm...just curious; why didn't you just cat /dev/zero >/dev/sdc?
> (be careful with this stuff!)
Most assuredly; th
On 05/07/2009 01:38 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 10:30:13AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Jerry Feldman wrote:
Rather than screw with NDISWrapper, are you using a BroadCom NIC?
There is a native Broadcom driver in F10, but you need to load the
firmware. There is a
dexter wrote:
>> I wish someone would convey to Fedora developers in general,
>> and KDE developers in particular, the merits of simplicity.
>> Every option added to an application reduces its usability.
>
> Every option added increases functionality you should look to gnome if
> having a choice
Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 28 April 2009, Dave Ihnat wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:34:09PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
Emacs is my editor of choice, and I disagree it has a learning curve.
...
vi on the other hand ;)
Aw, crud. I've dealt with this stupid war for 28 years.
And just to
Mike Burger wrote:
> It's actually very simple and painless.
LVM is reasonably simple.
But in my view its disadvantages -
particularly the difficulty of dealing with any kind of corruption -
far outweigh its advantages.
The main advantage - the ease with which partition sizes
can be changed - i
2009/5/9 Adel ESSAFI :
> Hi List
> I use firefox on F10 and i want to re install my system.
> I just ask if it is possible to backup the preferences of firefox and
> then import them later.
>
>
> I have tried to keep the .mozille directory but, I did not work .
>
> Regards
>
> Adel
>
>
>
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Hi List
I use firefox on F10 and i want to re install my system.
I just ask if it is possible to backup the preferences of firefox and
then import them later.
I have tried to keep the .mozille directory but, I did not work .
Regards
Adel
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Steve Searle wrote:
> I can't agree with this - there are much quicker ways :-)
Sure, abuse of the rm or dd commands can wreck your system pretty quickly
too. ;-)
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Around 12:04pm on Saturday, May 09, 2009 (UK time), Kevin Kofler scrawled:
> Compiling stuff directly from source without packaging it as an RPM is
> one of the quickest ways to make a mess out of your system, especially
> if you don't know what you're doing.
I can't agree with this - there are m
平天韩 wrote:
> I want to use konsole 1.6.6 within f10
Why?
> so I installed kdebase3 and some other packages. And then, I compiled
> konsole 1.6.6 from the source code. Everything seems OK besides "Configure
> konsole" doesn't work: after I select "settings->configure konsole", it
> keeps quiet, no
Hi,
I have I server which routes a private network to the internet through ppp.
All I had to do on Fedora-8 was:
> /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up 192.168.1.1
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> /sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE
However with Fedora-11 this doesn't work anym
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:11 AM, jackson byers wrote:
> I want to thank you for taking the time to write your criticism of my
> replies.
No problem, I'm not the fedoralist police or anything else special,
just trying to steer you towards getting your problem solved. Right
from the start my impres
Jim wrote:
> FC10
>
> I was trying to setup a usb stick to fat16 FS , using Fdisk, I deleted
> the partition and was going to make a new one, did a 'w' to disk.
> But when I open fdisk /dev/sdc and do a 'l' , it lists only SunOS type
> partitions, how do I get back to where it lists the 'fat16' p
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