Re: Sorta OT - anyone replaced MSFT Sharepoint with any OSS products?

2009-08-03 Thread Tosh
On 03/08/09 04:07, Thomas Cameron wrote: All - I have a friend who owns a small business and who uses Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. As you might suspect, it's a car with the hood welded shut, and I hate it. I help him out with IT stuff and I've had to fight MOSS 2007 for

Re: F11: Resume from hibernate on X61 laptop.

2009-06-14 Thread Tosh
Fernando Cassia wrote: On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Jason Ish i...@unx.ca mailto:i...@unx.ca wrote: I'm hoping I just missed something here. I recently installed F11 on my Lenovo X61 laptop without a swap partition, I've since added one (and set it up in /etc/fstab) as I'd like

Re: ti_usb_3410_5052: probe of 3-2:1.0 failed with error -5 ??

2009-06-14 Thread Tosh
Gregory Machin wrote: Hi I have a Huawei device that I have been using on fc 8 and fc 10. But now with fc 11 it does not work. Here is the log file entries for the device. Jun 13 15:42:25 localhost kernel: usb 3-2: USB disconnect, address 26 Jun 13 15:42:25 localhost kernel: usb 3-2: new full

Re: Make a simple server -

2009-05-31 Thread Tosh
Bob Goodwin wrote: What do I need to do to make a spare computer into a file server accessible only on my home LAN? I would like to be able to read and write files to it. My computers are running F-10, I believe the one I am considering using still has F-8 or 9 on it but it could be upgraded.

Re: yum upgrade Fedora Core 5 - Fedora Core 10?

2009-05-25 Thread Tosh
Kevin Kofler wrote: Tosh wrote: This should normally not be that difficult as CentOS 5 is based on FC6 You should grab the release rpm package, and replace manually, then you can yum update to CentOS 5 But some FC5 updates are newer than what CentOS 5 ships, breaking upgrades. (For example

Re: Updated F10 install media - like a rollup disc

2009-05-20 Thread Tosh
Paul Furness wrote: Hi, folks, I run a network in a computing research lab. All my servers (about 25 or so) run Fedora, as do a number of my workstations. Because of this, I often need to build new machines from scratch, and time is, of course, short, and I end up spending a lot of time doing a

Re: yum upgrade Fedora Core 5 - Fedora Core 10?

2009-05-20 Thread Tosh
Frank Murphy (Frankly3d) wrote: Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 05/20/2009 11:57 AM, :: [F]usion[S]tream :: -- Gmail wrote: Due to certain circumstances, my live server is still on Fedora Core 5. Does anyone know what are the necessary steps to upgrade to say, Fedora 10? If you do really need longer

Re: fedora LTS , why not?

2009-03-21 Thread Tosh
Adel ESSAFI wrote: 2009/3/21 Adel ESSAFI adel.s...@imag.fr mailto:adel.s...@imag.fr 2009/3/20 Armin amor...@fedoraproject.org mailto:amor...@fedoraproject.org On Saturday 21 March 2009 11:09:06 Adel ESSAFI wrote: 2009/3/21 Adel ESSAFI adel.s...@imag.fr

Re: fedora LTS , why not?

2009-03-20 Thread Tosh
Adel ESSAFI wrote: Hi list I was using fedora and redhat since 2000. To day, I can see that our favorite distro is really very strong. However, I have done some experience (short) with Ubuntu and I have liked to LTS concept (Long Term support). My idea is to build a distribution that is based

Re: building i386 packages in x86_64 Fedora 10

2009-03-20 Thread Tosh
David Hláčik wrote: Hello guys, i want to build i386 freetype source rpm on by 64 bit Fedora 10, so i will issue rpmbuild -ba --target i386 , i will usually end up with gcc error. Do i need 32bit gcc compiler to built that? As I know it is not in x86_64 repository :(. Please, how to

Re: Fedora 10 x64 doesn't detect all RAM

2009-03-20 Thread Tosh
spmirowski wrote: Hi, I am running a Dell 370 with 4 GB of RAM. Vista 32 SP1 shows that 4 GB is installed in System Properties. The change from 3 GB to 4GB wasn't picked up in Fedora 10 x64. It's a Intel 925X chipset if that helps out. Does anyone know why it might not register 4 GB on a 64 bit

Re: Specs for server

2009-03-11 Thread Tosh
Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 15:41 -0400, Jon Shorie wrote: We have been running a mix of Redhat Linux, Fedora Linux, Kubuntu Linux, and Sun Solaris 8 on our servers and some desktops since Redhat 6.0. It is finally time to replace our last sun server. The only thing that this

Re: Boot into single user mode

2009-02-27 Thread Tosh
Mr. Bravismore Mumanyi wrote: Dear All, I lost root password for one of my box running Fedora 9. I am not sure if its one of the clever users who changed the password since I had not locked it down. I am now trying to boot into single user mode in order to reset the password. However, at the

Re: Space Allocation Problems

2009-02-17 Thread Tosh
GERALD HOOPER wrote: Hi Red Hat Group I recently installed Fedora V7 from LXFDVD95 dated August 2007 on a separate hard 20gb hard drive. I then received 250 plus critical updates to my system which failed to install because the /var directory ran out of space. When I checked the actual space

Re: How to safely migrate from centOS to fedora 10

2009-02-16 Thread Tosh
kmadananteshwar.vb...@gmail.com wrote: Hey folks I am a centOS user who's been running fedora off a live DVD for the past 4 months and am beginning to want to migrate to fedora and would like to know how exactly do I migrate to fedora safely without messing around with my windows vista

Re: Fedora 6 supported anymore?

2009-02-14 Thread Tosh
Frank Murphy wrote: Paul Nowosielski wrote: Dear all, I was wondering if Fedora 6 is still being supported and updates are still being provided via yum? No Currently supported versions are 9,10. Frank upgrade to CentOS 5 (it is based upon RHEL 5 which is based upon FC6) there is support

Re: Fedora 10 for Itanium (IA64) Architecture?

2009-02-14 Thread Tosh
Sutton, Harry (MSE) wrote: One of our engineers posted a question on an internal mailing list asking why he was unable to find this release; I can't find it on any of the mirrors, is this an oversight or an intentional drop of this architecture? /Harry Sutton, RHCA, RHCSS HP Open

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-05 Thread Tosh
McGuffey, David C. wrote: Rather than configuring a dual-boot machine for running those occasional Windows apps, which one of these virtualization tools provides the best (read most accurate) virtualization environment on F10? Which one is the easiest to install and configure? I had problems

Re: NetworkManager overwriting resolv.conf

2009-01-18 Thread Tosh
Christopher A. Williams wrote: The only solution I have found so far is to: 1) properly re-create /etc/resolv.conf to what it should be 2) set the immutable flag on it (chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf) 3) just add the following options to /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-X (the name of your

Re: fedora 9 and an nvidia 7200gs video card

2009-01-13 Thread Tosh
Don Raikes wrote: Hi all, I have fedora 9 installed on my gateway desktop and it was working fine except for the fact that my video card died. I just installed a new nvidia 7200gs card (the nvidia 84000gs card wouldn't fit). Now when I try to run gnome, I get a message saying no devices

Re: fedora 9 and an nvidia 7200gs video card

2009-01-13 Thread Tosh
Don Raikes wrote: Thanks for this info: Unfortunately, once I installed the rpmfusion yum configuration files, and search for the kmod-nvidia package as indicated on the howto page, I didn't find any packages. Oh well I also discovered that it helps to make sure the card itself is firmly

Re: Access to sub network unreachable.

2009-01-09 Thread Tosh
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 09 January 2009 03:43:11 Simon Slater wrote: Hi all, I'm sure I have missed something simple (or done something stupid) but have no idea what so I'll ask anyhow. All the computers on our SOHO network had static addresses in the