Re: install F11 ON a USB-HDD, ... TERRIBLE

2009-07-20 Thread Daniel Kirsten
Original-Nachricht > Datum: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:45:15 -0500 > Von: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" > An: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." > > Betreff: Re: install F11 ON a USB-HDD, ... TERRIBLE > Daniel K

Re: install F11 ON a USB-HDD, ... TERRIBLE

2009-07-20 Thread Daniel Kirsten
> Dumb question - are you booting with the USB drive unplugged when > you are working with the built-in drive? If not, boot without it > plugged in so we can simplify the troubleshooting. I have not run > into that error before. > > Mikkel I tried both, it yields the same result. I just see a

Re: install F11 ON a USB-HDD, ... TERRIBLE

2009-07-20 Thread Daniel Kirsten
> Try "grub-install /dev/sda". (without quotes.) I got the same message. > For the USB install, you need to use "grub-install /dev/sdc" instead > of "grub-install hd0" because you want to install grub to the USB > drive, not the internal drive. Iknow, I tried "grub-install hd0" to get the built

Re: install F11 ON a USB-HDD, ... TERRIBLE

2009-07-20 Thread Daniel Kirsten
> Do the same thing again, and change back the map. It sounds like you > were working with the system on the hard drive, and not the one on > the USB drive. I should have been more specific about what install > to use. > > Mikkel > -- It did not work. The device.map on the buit-in drive is date

Re: install F11 ON a USB-HDD, ... TERRIBLE

2009-07-20 Thread Daniel Kirsten
>You can fix this by booting in the rescue mode from the install CD, >(Can you do this with the netinstall CD?) letting it mount your >partitions. Cchroot to the mounted system, edit >/boot/grub/device.map, and re-install grub. I tried this. I replaced /dev/sdc by /dev/sda in devices.map on the U

Re: install F11 ON a USB-HDD

2009-07-20 Thread Daniel Kirsten
On Monday 20 July 2009, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Daniel Kirsten wrote: > > The installation seemed to be successful, but I cannot boot from > > this USB-HDD.WHen I turn on the computer, it reads a bit from the > > USB-HDD, abd then

Re: install F11 ON a USB-HDD

2009-07-20 Thread Daniel Kirsten
On Monday 20 July 2009, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 15:13 +0200, Daniel Kirsten wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I installed F11 on a USB-HDD. I used a network-install-CD and > > allowed the installer to use the entire disk. I did not change the > > pa

install F11 ON a USB-HDD

2009-07-20 Thread Daniel Kirsten
Hi, I installed F11 on a USB-HDD. I used a network-install-CD and allowed the installer to use the entire disk. I did not change the partition layout. I installed the bootloader to the same USB-drive. The installation seemed to be successful, but I cannot boot from this USB-HDD.WHen

Re: yum update on a Live USB Stick

2008-11-27 Thread Daniel Kirsten
I deteled everything on the USB-Stick, and then I transfered the live image by livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 1250 F10-i686-Live-KDE.iso /dev/sdc1 yum update was succesful on this stick. Thanks,Daniel -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.

Re: yum update on a Live USB Stick

2008-11-27 Thread Daniel Kirsten
>you need more free memory. more ram or more space on the stick? >in my case, I get those messages when my >4GB ram is full, but otherwise i can update properly (even the live >image). try it. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman

yum update on a Live USB Stick

2008-11-27 Thread Daniel Kirsten
Hi, I transfered the F10-i686-Live-KDE.iso to a 2GB USB-Stick (vfat) as described on http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/sn-making-media.html The stick booted well, but when I tried make yum update , yum crashed. I got tons of ext3-related error messages, altough the s

clock goes back on intel dual core

2008-07-14 Thread Daniel Kirsten
Hallo, I use a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Xi 2550 (Intel Centrino Dual Core) and FC 9. When KDE goes to some power save mode, the clock goes back afterwards, e.g., the clock shows 11:18, but it is 11:48.Usually, the difference is exactly 20 minutes or exactly 30 minutes or something like that.

Re: FC 9 Installation Input/output error, dmesg output

2008-06-22 Thread Daniel Kirsten
> > sd 4:0:0:0: [sda] 390721968 512-byte hardware sectors (200050 MB) > > Your disk reports one size > > sda: rw=0, want=532056072, limit=390721968 > Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 0 > > but your partition table thinks the disk is an entirely different size I striped two 200GB

FC 9 Installation Input/output error, dmesg output

2008-06-22 Thread Daniel Kirsten
Hallo, I have put an output of dmesg under http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~kirsten/pics/dmesg-output It seems to be DVD read error. Should I try to install from another source? The DVD passed the media check, Vista can read the same DVD in the same drive, and I verified the SHA1SUM

FC 9 Installation IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error (2)

2008-06-20 Thread Daniel Kirsten
Hallo, there is a photo under http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~kirsten/pics/fedora.jpg --- I try to install Fedora 9 on a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi2550 using a DVD. I use text bases installation due to Radeon HD2700. When the instal

Re: Re: FC 9 Installation IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

2008-06-20 Thread Daniel Kirsten
> I don't know that I can help you, but anyone who helps is going to need > >more information. Is there a chance you ran out of memory? How much memory >does your system have? 2 Gigabyte > Is there enough disk space? How large are the partitions? I have two identical 200GB HD-Drives. I used v

FC 9 Installation IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

2008-06-19 Thread Daniel Kirsten
Hallo, I try to install Fedora 9 on a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi2550 using a DVD. I use text bases installation due to Radeon HD2700. When the installation program installs the rpm-packages from the DVD, it stops after some hundred packages and gives a long python-related error message ending