system unbootable after online upgrade to Fedora 11

2009-09-05 Thread Simon Tierney
Help, please, I recently upgraded online from F10 to F11 but now the system hangs with a blinking cursor to the top left hand side of the screen immediately after the fedora 11 progress bar at bottom of the screen completes. Can someone advise me how to solve this problem? -- fedora-list mail

please recommend PCIe2.0x16 graphics card for fedora 10

2009-03-27 Thread Simon Tierney
I've upgraded my motherboard to an Asus P6T with i7 processor, which seems to run OK until I reboot after software updates, then I have to reset the CMOS each time. I suspect the bios conflicts with an old PCI graphics card (3D labs oxygen) which shows up during POST before the screen goes bla

httpd service is dead

2009-01-31 Thread Simon Tierney
Sorry if this is basic. Since I started using Fedora 10 I can't login as root. Even though the system recognizes the root password when it requires it for certain administrative tasks it refuses to let me login as root. When I try to edit httpd.conf I get the message "could not save file..."

installing fedora9 via network

2008-09-13 Thread Simon Tierney
Can anyone give me a link to resource explaining how I can boot from network and install F9 -I have a laptop with non-functioning DVD drive and no floppy. Alternatively how to install it via usb flash drive? Thanks for any comments. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubsc

help with network installation

2008-09-11 Thread Simon Tierney
My laptop hard drive died. The dvd-etc drive had been generatinb I/O errors for some time and i don't want to buy a new one in case it is a motherboard problem. I have a new hard drive and I am not sure if my bios will recognise a usb flashdrive to boot. The bios has a vrsion of pxe. i can't fi