Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: I've read lots of online postings about people who are apparently watching TV on their computers, but I haven't seen a concrete description of what to do. I'd love to see a posting from someone who has abandoned the traditional TV set in favour

Re: F12 Rkhunter, Have I a rootkit? SOLVED

2010-01-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 05 January 2010, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 05 January 2010, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:57:20 -0500 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: When I asked about it Kevin, F10 was under active support for another 2 or 3 months, now it is not, so why waste our

Re: F12 Rkhunter, Have I a rootkit? SOLVED

2010-01-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 05 January 2010, John Horne wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 11:35 -1000, David Burns wrote: On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) frankl...@gmail.com wrote: This is a false positive. rkhunter gave me so many false positives I stopped using it. This is probably as

Re: F12 Rkhunter, Have I a rootkit? SOLVED

2010-01-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 05 January 2010, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:31:30 -0500 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: _Most_ of the time. Despite some people including me, asking about /usr/sbin/unhide, one of fedora's forensic tools if I read the manpage correctly, no one has managed

Re: F12 Rkhunter, Have I a rootkit? SOLVED

2010-01-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 05 January 2010, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:57:20 -0500 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: When I asked about it Kevin, F10 was under active support for another 2 or 3 months, now it is not, so why waste our time? I built rkhunter from the latest tarball

Re: Need usb troubleshoting tool

2010-01-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 02 January 2010, g wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Do we have a usb monitoring tool that can detect and name the processes that are apparently fighting over a device plugged into a semi remote usb hub, a 7 port Alps gizmo plugged into one of the mobo ports? see reply to 'subject: nut 0

Re: Nut 0 vs F10 winner

2010-01-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 02 January 2010, g wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I am trying to make nut work, in this case with the usbhid-ups driver for a Belkin UPS. i use apc ups exclusively and it is all i recommend. i did try nut when it first came out, but i went back to apcupsd. Something

Re: Nut 0 vs F10 winner

2010-01-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 02 January 2010, g wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Yes, we're almost on the same page now. ;-) ok. what i just sent in reply to 'subject: Need usb troubleshoting tool' should get us even closer. this is fun of working to different threads of near same topic from same person. Sorry

Re: Need usb troubleshoting tool

2010-01-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 02 January 2010, g wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Thanks, I hadn't tried that exact strategy yet, duh... However, nothing that looks applicable seems to appear. in meantime of my reply post and getting back into f-12, i opened yumex and ran a filter of 'monitor' to see what

Need usb troubleshoting tool

2010-01-01 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Do we have a usb monitoring tool that can detect and name the processes that are apparently fighting over a device plugged into a semi remote usb hub, a 7 port Alps gizmo plugged into one of the mobo ports? Or is it possible that because it is not plugged directly into the

Re: Where did my penguins go? - THAT'S LIFE

2009-12-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 31 December 2009, Sam Sharpe wrote: 2009/12/31 Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net: The nouveau driver is a big improvement over nv, but it apparently lacks the ability to display core penguins after the startmenu. As I speculated in my original post, this seems to be an

Re: Where did my penguins go? - THAT'S LIFE

2009-12-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 31 December 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Sam Sharpe wrote: 2009/12/31 Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net: The nouveau driver is a big improvement over nv, but it apparently lacks the ability to display core penguins after the startmenu. As I speculated

Nut 0 vs F10 winner

2009-12-31 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I am trying to make nut work, in this case with the usbhid-ups driver for a Belkin UPS. Something is interfering with the drivers access to the ups, I can often see device or resource busy messages in the drivers debugging output, which causes it to do a restart, looking for all

Re: Where did my penguins go? - THAT'S LIFE

2009-12-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 31 December 2009, Sam Sharpe wrote: 2009/12/31 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net: On Thursday 31 December 2009, Sam Sharpe wrote: 2009/12/31 Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net: The nouveau driver is a big improvement over nv, but it apparently lacks the ability

Re: Where did my penguins go? - THAT'S LIFE

2009-12-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 January 2010, g wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 31 December 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote: For sure they will last longer than the golden toads. And that is sad. How many and where, of the latter do we have? possibly none, according to; http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct

Re: Missing posts again ??

2009-12-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 22 December 2009, Antonio Olivares wrote: Hi; I am once again not receiving some posts from the fedora-list. Is it possible that you configured the list for awhile not to seed your posts back to you. No. I haven't been into my fedora-list profile for a while and

Re: Name of fedora lists - you're kidding right?

2009-12-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 29 December 2009, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:49:30 -0500 Mail Lists wrote: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. They just spent years building a giant committee that changed the name from something concise to this new and improved

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 25 December 2009, jdow wrote: From: TNWestTex mcfo...@bellsouth.net Sent: Tuesday, 2009/December/22 13:16 Steven Ringwald-3 wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 15:29 -0600, Mikkel wrote: My experience with ZIP disks was that if they came formatted, or if you used the Omega formatting

Re: [Fedora] Re: IBM Netfinity 5000

2009-12-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 25 December 2009, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Matthew Saltzman wrote: Another possibility: Does it boot from CD1 of the CD distro? Negative. It just stops loading: Loading vmlinuz . [ continues on ] Loading initrd.img ... [ stops at random spots ]

Re: [Fedora] Re: IBM Netfinity 5000

2009-12-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 25 December 2009, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Sounds to me like the next disk I put in it would be a copy of memtest86, you have flaky hardware Actually, that was the very first thing I did before even considering the machine usable. memtest86 ran for 5 days non

Re: How many people need to use the proprietary nvidia driver ? (Or other non kms driver ?)

2009-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 December 2009, Kevin Kempter wrote: On Wednesday 23 December 2009 07:46:17 Dennis Mattingly wrote: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Please reply if you need to ( ie must) use the proprietary nvidia driver instead of the nouveau driver. Or some other video driver

Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

2009-12-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 19 December 2009, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 01:24 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Ktorrent hangs in there till somebody starts seeding what it needs, but I have very very little experience with the others so can't say what they do. I have seen the seed count

Re: To Timothy Murphy

2009-12-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 19 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 00:14 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: All your messages at gmail end up in my spam folder with the following mention: Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of following any links in it or of

Re: To Timothy Murphy

2009-12-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 19 December 2009, Elliott Chapin wrote: On 12/19/2009 12:23 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 19 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 00:14 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: All your messages at gmail end up in my spam folder with the following mention: Warning

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 19 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 23:25 -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 21:58 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Mikkel mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: On 12/18/2009 01:59 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: [...]

Re: [OT] LCD Display and earthquakes .....

2009-12-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 19 December 2009, Michael Thompson wrote: Yeah, it more than shakes it enough to sort out the problems. :) So before you throw any LCD away, give it a food shake. What flavor? -- Michael Thompson On 20 Dec 2009, at 01:48, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: This is OT...but

Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

2009-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 18 December 2009, Tim wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:53 -0800, suvayu ali wrote: This shows that your download is corrupted. That would explain all your other problems too. You need to download the iso again. If you are using direct download, I would suggest you to switch to torrent.

Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

2009-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 18 December 2009, Tim wrote: Tim: One of their prior posts said they got it using a torrent. Gene Heskett: In which case they should restart the torrent. Most clients do a full check and will re-pull anything that doesn't pass that 64kb blocks crc. One thing that sprang to my mind

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 21:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a floppy disk. That is no longer an option. Could anyone explain how I can

Re: fc12 and grubconf

2009-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 December 2009, david walcroft wrote: On 12/17/2009 03:27 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 16 December 2009, david walcroft wrote: I tried to edit grubconf. with vim but when I tried to change 'rhgb' and 'quiet' the cursor would not edit the line as the cursor would not stop

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a floppy disk. That is no longer an option. Could anyone explain how I can accomplish this? Please be as detailed as you can describing the procedure. Most bios these days are equipt

grip authors email address?

2009-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Mike Oliphant, the author of grip, needs to update his address on his web page at nostatic. Does anyone have a current address for Mike? Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed

Re: fc12 and grubconf

2009-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 December 2009, david walcroft wrote: I tried to edit grubconf. with vim but when I tried to change 'rhgb' and 'quiet' the cursor would not edit the line as the cursor would not stop at the line,it went either above or below the line. Is this new behavior in fc12 david No David.

Re: grip authors email address?

2009-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Todd Zullinger wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Mike Oliphant, the author of grip, needs to update his address on his web page at nostatic. Does anyone have a current address for Mike? I don't know of one, but grip is certainly not actively maintained by Mike any

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:15:13 -0500, Gene wrote: On Monday 14 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:29:21 -0500, Gene wrote: Your F10 grub2 is broken beyond repair also, and I needed it to work so I could try some

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:16:08 -0500, Gene wrote: On Monday 14 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:04:29 -0500, Gene wrote: and can not deal with chainloading w/ grub. That I got figured out, what I was trying

Re: pinfo grub issues? (was: Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken)

2009-12-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:21:31 -0500, Gene wrote: The GRUB manual: info grub But a pinfo grub has a lot of blank entries. I may have miss-typed, and meant a pinfo grub2 has lots of blank entries. But there is not an info file with the grub2

Re: Posts getting ignored (was F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken)

2009-12-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:42:57 -0500, Gene wrote: On Monday 14 December 2009, Sam Sharpe wrote: Actually I quite like most of Gene's output - he's cranky and he likes guns - what's not to like? ;-) Thanks. I got the cranky part legit, I've

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:24:53 -0500, Gene wrote: I may not have had the syntax correct, but all I could get out of it was an error 13, invalid file format. Which you only get if you try to let GRUB mount a filesystem found on a partition. I

Re: pinfo grub issues? (was: Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken)

2009-12-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:57:29 -0500, Gene wrote: On Tuesday 15 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:21:31 -0500, Gene wrote: The GRUB manual: info grub But a pinfo grub has a lot of blank entries. I may have

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:04:19 -0500, Gene wrote: I did have F12 installed, 64 bit version, but it was (pick a number * 10) slower than the 32 bit F10 install. Based on what measurements? What tools did you use to determine that it was

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 December 2009, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/14/2009 10:30 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:11:25 -0500, Gene Heskettgene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Your treatment of redhat/fedora users with over a decade of use has finally reached the quitting point. You

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-14 Thread Gene Heskett
be rather obvious that you've run into some special problem. I wish it was, but my posts to this list about it were ignored for a week, Can't comment on those posts. Haven't read them. Can't find them in the archives when searching for Gene Heskett. November http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 December 2009, Craig White wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 20:26 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: Your treatment of redhat/fedora users with over a decade of use has finally reached the quitting point. You refuse to fix openssh, hoping that would force me to install F12, and

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:29:21 -0500, Gene wrote: Your F10 grub2 is broken beyond repair also, and I needed it to work so I could try some other distro's that do use grub2 to boot with. You couldn't chainload those other dists with legacy GRUB?

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:04:29 -0500, Gene wrote: and can not deal with chainloading w/ grub. That I got figured out, what I was trying to chainload was an ext4, and old grub just throws up its hands. Let me guess (taking into account the

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:39:58 -0500, Gene wrote: Side-note about your Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub. thread. The partitioning details are confusing, contradictory, inaccurate and incomplete. First impression is that you

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 December 2009, Tom H wrote: [...] I suspect that Ubuntu 9.10 has defaulted to grub2 possibly prematurely because it wants to iron out the bugs before it releases its next LTS version in April. Sure sounds like a plan to me. Using a year-old release of grub2 is courageous at best

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 December 2009, Tom H wrote: Your F10 grub2 is broken beyond repair also, and I needed it to work so I could try some other distro's that do use grub2 to boot with. You couldn't chainload those other dists with legacy GRUB? Not if the boot partition is on an ext4 filesystem. I

Re: Posts getting ignored (was F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken)

2009-12-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 December 2009, Sam Sharpe wrote: 2009/12/14 Mikkel mik...@infinity-ltd.com: On 12/14/2009 11:11 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Your treatment of redhat/fedora users with over a decade of use has finally reached the quitting point. You refuse to fix openssh, hoping that would force me

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 13 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:13:25 -0500, Gene wrote: I did have F12 installed, 64 bit version, but it was (pick a number * 10) slower than the 32 bit F10 install. Based on what measurements? What tools did you use to determine that it was slower?

Re: Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub.

2009-12-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 12 December 2009, Tim wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 10:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: It wasn't just slow graphics Tim. It was slooo oow! I was forgetting the other common reason for that sort

F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-12 Thread Gene Heskett
This should be bugzilla'd. I made a printout of blkid, then compared it to the /boott/grub2/grub.cfg it generated. I now see why I can't boot anything but fedora 10. Attached is blkid.txt, note that all drives appear to be found and properly UUID'd. Attached also is the /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Re: F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

2009-12-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 12 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:30:54 -0600, Bruno wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 13:08:32 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: So the Mint8 installers update-grub comes a heck of a lot closer to getting it right than the fedora grub2 version. Can

Re: Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub.

2009-12-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 11 December 2009, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 13:51 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Would the bios drive order translation account for the slowness of the F12 system? It is intolerably slow when multitasking, often taking 30 seconds to a minute to close a window if the package

Re: Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub.

2009-12-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 11 December 2009, Bill Davidsen wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: OTOH, since its a new install, I could just as easily do a reinstall. What sort of a voodoo spell to I have to use to get a /boot partition of say 400 megabytes? The default is only 100, and that will never fly here

Re: Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub.

2009-12-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 10 December 2009, Bill Davidsen wrote: Tom H wrote: Resend as there has been no reply, with added info. I finally said to hell with it and let F12 install itself on /dev/sdb with all its defaults. I was surprised on the reboot when my usual grub menu from /dev/sda was all that

Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB stick

2009-12-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 10 December 2009, David A. De Graaf wrote: On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:30:04PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] If the BIOS fails to list the memory stick as a hard drive, you're out of luck, I'm afraid. If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any at all... Here, for the record

Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub.

2009-12-09 Thread Gene Heskett
Greets; Resend as there has been no reply, with added info. I finally said to hell with it and let F12 install itself on /dev/sdb with all its defaults. I was surprised on the reboot when my usual grub menu from /dev/sda was all that showed up, no mention of an F12 install at all. Added: I had

Re: Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub.

2009-12-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 09 December 2009, Bill Davidsen wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Greets; Resend as there has been no reply, with added info. I finally said to hell with it and let F12 install itself on /dev/sdb with all its defaults. I was surprised on the reboot when my usual grub menu from /dev

Re: Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub.

2009-12-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 09 December 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 09 December 2009, Bill Davidsen wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Greets; Resend as there has been no reply, with added info. I finally said to hell with it and let F12 install itself on /dev/sdb with all its defaults. I

Re: Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub.

2009-12-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 09 December 2009, Tom H wrote: Resend as there has been no reply, with added info. I finally said to hell with it and let F12 install itself on /dev/sdb with all its defaults. I was surprised on the reboot when my usual grub menu from /dev/sda was all that showed up, no mention

Re: Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub.

2009-12-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 09 December 2009, Tom H wrote: Well, according to the files present on /dev/sdb1, grub is installed. I tried the chainloader+1, didn't work, now I'm about to reboot and try the map syntax to swap the bios drive orders. And that didn't work either. :( As I said in my earlier

Re: Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub.

2009-12-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 09 December 2009, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 00:33:24 +0100, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: The Fedora devs must have patched grub1. One of the big selling points of grub2 is that it can boot from an ext4 /boot, as well as from an lvm or mdraid /boot. My

Booting ssparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub.

2009-12-08 Thread Gene Heskett
Greets; I finally said to hell with it and let F12 install itself on /dev/sdb with all its defaults. I was surprised on the reboot when my usual grub menu from /dev/sda was all that showed up, no mention of an F12 install at all. So, since I had blown away a centos install to put F12 on

Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB stick

2009-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 07 December 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote: I've been trying to install Fedora-12 from a memory stick to which I have transferred the KDE Live CD using livecd-iso-to-disk . The problem is that the ancient machine I am dealing with does not support booting from the USB stick. So following

Re: System infected ?

2009-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 07 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 14:38:20 +0100, Frank wrote: On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:32:50 +0100 Luc MAIGNAN wrote: Hi, I launched a 'chkrootkit' on my mail server and it gave me the following error : Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 465)

Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB

2009-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 07 December 2009, R. G. Newbury wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Timothy Murphy wrote: I've been trying to install Fedora-12 from a memory stick to which I have transferred the KDE Live CD using livecd-iso-to-disk . snip I wouldn't mind being able to do something similar myself. I

Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB

2009-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 07 December 2009, Craig White wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 21:58 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: What is the rational for demanding that /root be a directory on /, and not a separate partition? See at: http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/pix/root-not-allowed.jpg I would presume

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 06 December 2009, Marc Wilson wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: I need to install F12 here at some point, and it sure would be a hell of a lot easier if F10 had enough libraries installed to run gparted to prepare a drive the way _I_

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 06 December 2009, Robert Nichols wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: If you know how to make the 'installer' partition a drive according to your wishes without its refusing to accept say a 400 Mbyte /boot partition, or demanding that /root /var MUST live on /, then please write up

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 06 December 2009, Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Robert Nichols rnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: This sounds like you've been doing your installs from a Live CD, where your options are indeed quite limited. The installation CD set or DVD includes a perfectly

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 06 December 2009, Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: On Sunday 06 December 2009, Robert Nichols wrote: This sounds like you've been doing your installs from a Live CD, where I always have done so, but it still nags, or just

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 December 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: But the point is taken. There seem to be quite a few posts from folks that make their lives needlessly complex by mucking with the defaults and that ends up breaking something downstream. Are you saying that

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 December 2009, Wayne Feick wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 11:30 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Folderol even. My objection to LVM is two fold. 1. It won't allow one to save things in the /home tree when doing an upgrade or re-install. I have an almost 10GB corpus of email

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 December 2009, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 12:33 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 05 December 2009, Wayne Feick wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 11:30 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Folderol even. My objection to LVM is two fold. 1. It won't allow one

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 December 2009, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 19:30 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 05 December 2009, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 12:33 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 05 December 2009, Wayne Feick wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 11

Re: How to install Fedora-12?

2009-11-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 30 November 2009, Alex Bahoor wrote: Can someone please point to where I can take myself out of this forum? Kindly, Alex First, this is not a forum, but a mailing list. And the un-subscribe instructions are at the bottom of every message that comes through the list server. If

digicam question

2009-11-24 Thread Gene Heskett
Gawd how I hate supposedly good software that does it its way or hit the road jack don't let the doorknob hit you in the back leaving. So howin-ell do I use it to import pix from my new Nikon D100, and put them in the /usr/pix/target directory of _MY_ choice. When I try to set up a new path,

Re: anti-spam UOL

2009-11-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 22 November 2009, jdow wrote: From: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net Sent: Friday, 2009/November/20 11:27 Please forcibly unsubscribe this person from the list. From: AntiSpam UOL waldyr.rebello.ss...@uol.com.br I'll be damned if I'm going to put up with one of his reject

Re: The recent ssl vulnerability

2009-11-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 22 November 2009, Todd Zullinger wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Is there any chance of getting the fixed openssl-0.9.8i for F10? This has stopped my ability to do any online banking, and with all the horror stories about regarding loss of X when upgrading to F12, I really don't want

Silent mounting of disks? Unwanted.

2009-11-17 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; My daily mailing from logwatch had a surprise this morning. I have other installs besides F10, each on its own disk. The F10 //etc/fstab now lists the disk by LABEL= syntax after having lost the main F10 drive and replacing it it, copying the whole system over before pulling the

Re: Silent mounting of disks? Unwanted.

2009-11-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 November 2009, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:31:35 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: Something that thinks it has the rights to go around and mount everything it finds seems to have the run of the system. Possibly this thread is the same issue: https://www.redhat.com

Re: Saving Flash

2009-11-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 15 November 2009, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 16:44 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: Let's see what I can find just for you... How about About Schmidt, at Warner's? http://www.wbshop.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-WB-Site/default/Product-S how?pid=132396 Complains

Re: Saving Flash

2009-11-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 15 November 2009, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Marcel Rieux wrote: It doesn't save a file in /tmp. As a bonus, since it's not political, it's not off topic. Perfect for Linux geeks! That one was easy wget

Re: disaster recovery Q's

2009-11-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 14 November 2009, Mikkel wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Logically, the root (hd0,0) must over-ride any UUID's that may be in the initrd.img, otherwise it could not possibly have found even the grub.conf to show me at boot time. The root (hd0,0) is only used by Grub, and tells Grub

Re: unexpected logout

2009-11-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 14 November 2009, Dj YB wrote: On Friday November 13 2009 17:42:58 Mikkel wrote: Dj YB wrote: thanks but how much time should I wait? could there be another explanation? I will run this test now and get back to you after it is done cheers YB. It is more a matter of how

Re: disaster recovery Q's

2009-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 13 November 2009, Bill Davidsen wrote: jackson byers wrote: Tom Horsley responded Everyone seems to think UUID= is infinitely better to use than LABEL=, but specifically because I can control the LABEL but have no control over the UUID, I always change the fstab and wot-not to use

Re: disaster recovery Q's

2009-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 13 November 2009, Bill Davidsen wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 00:56 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Are there any hard links in the system anyplace besides the /etc tree? The resume partition (if you use one) is set

Re: disaster recovery Q's

2009-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 13 November 2009, Tom H wrote: In my experience, the UUID is also embedded internal to the initrd.img and this also should be consistent with the UUID in grub.conf [r...@localhost clean]# less init near the end look for mkrootdev line: echo Creating root device. mkrootdev -t

Re: disaster recovery Q's

2009-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 13 November 2009, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:30:53 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: Some _real_ docs on grub would be VERY nice. No point in that, they'll be switching to grub2 soon (as ubuntu just did) and everything will be completely different :-). And quite likely even

Re: disaster recovery Q's

2009-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 November 2009, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 00:56 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Are there any hard links in the system anyplace besides the /etc tree? The resume partition (if you use one) is set in the initrd, I don't know what method it uses to define the partition (device name

Re: disaster recovery Q's

2009-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 November 2009, jackson byers wrote: Tom Horsley responded Everyone seems to think UUID= is infinitely better to use than LABEL=, but specifically because I can control the LABEL but have no control over the UUID, I always change the fstab and wot-not to use LABEL= after giving

disaster recovery Q's

2009-11-11 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; My boot drive is less than a year old and smart is sending me dire messages, so I went to town and got another drive. rsync has just about copied everything to another drive, and I'll do a power off add the drive, then reboot IF it will (the messages are yelping about CHS block

Re: disaster recovery Q's

2009-11-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 11 November 2009, Aldo Foot wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: ... I just checked, and /etc/fstab is using UUID's, how can that be fixed, or should I just put it back to LABEL's and be done with it. That drive is labeled, but I

Re: disaster recovery Q's

2009-11-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 11 November 2009, Rick Stevens wrote: On 11/11/2009 03:04 PM, Aldo Foot wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Gene Heskettgene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: ... I just checked, and /etc/fstab is using UUID's, how can that be fixed, or should I just put it back to LABEL's and be

Re: disaster recovery Q's

2009-11-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 11 November 2009, Mikkel wrote: Tom Horsley wrote: Everyone seems to think UUID= is infinitely better to use than LABEL=, but specifically because I can control the LABEL but have no control over the UUID, I always change the fstab and wot-not to use LABEL= after giving my

Re: unexpected logout

2009-11-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 November 2009, Rick Stevens wrote: William Case wrote: Hi Craig; On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 17:02 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 06:55 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: In addition, I had a power supply go wonky that ended up being the culprit. Is that a technical

Re: New printer, need newer gutenprint for F10.

2009-11-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 01 November 2009, Andrew Jamison wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 21:41 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I just had to replace my aging Epson C82, and bought an NX515. In cups/gutenprint, the newest driver is for the NX400 series printers. It works, at resolutions up to 720x720

Re: New printer, need newer gutenprint for F10.

2009-11-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 November 2009, Tim Waugh wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 21:41 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: I just had to replace my aging Epson C82, and bought an NX515. In cups/gutenprint, the newest driver is for the NX400 series printers. It works, at resolutions up to 720x720. Whats chances we

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