Re: WD Advanced Format hard drive issues

2011-07-28 Thread Steven J. Yellin
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Yasha Karant wrote: ... Is it safe to do the merry chase down the dependency trail to port a later parted to SL 6 or will some of these cause SL 6 to fail/become unstable? Does anyone have a SL 6 port of either parted or gparted that is more recent than the stock SL 6

Re: WD Advanced Format hard drive issues

2011-07-28 Thread Yasha Karant
On 07/27/2011 11:23 PM, Steven J. Yellin wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Yasha Karant wrote: ... Is it safe to do the merry chase down the dependency trail to port a later parted to SL 6 or will some of these cause SL 6 to fail/become unstable? Does anyone have a SL 6 port of either parted or

Re: WD Advanced Format hard drive issues

2011-07-28 Thread Alexander Hunt
On 07/28/2011 12:48 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: On 07/27/2011 11:23 PM, Steven J. Yellin wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Yasha Karant wrote: ... Is it safe to do the merry chase down the dependency trail to port a later parted to SL 6 or will some of these cause SL 6 to fail/become unstable? Does

[question] Wine in SL6

2011-07-28 Thread Pere Casas Puig
My experience with SL6 at the moment is very good. Now I'm looking to install Wine, but can not find it. I need to manage some RouterOS with WinBox I've been searching but only find by Centos and Fedora. I tried applying it to SL6, but I have not worked. Any ideas? Thkns ! --

Re: [question] Wine in SL6

2011-07-28 Thread Alexander Yegorov
On 07/28/2011 03:26 PM, Pere Casas Puig wrote: My experience with SL6 at the moment is very good. Now I'm looking to install Wine, but can not find it. I need to manage some RouterOS with WinBox I've been searching but only find by Centos and Fedora. I tried applying it to SL6, but I have

Re: [question] Wine in SL6

2011-07-28 Thread JR van Rensburg
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 14:26 +0200, Pere Casas Puig wrote: My experience with SL6 at the moment is very good. Now I'm looking to install Wine, but can not find it. I need to manage some RouterOS with WinBox I've been searching but only find by Centos and Fedora. I tried applying it to SL6,

Re: Failures to kickstart with SL 6.1

2011-07-28 Thread Troy Dawson
On 07/27/2011 05:23 PM, Rich wrote: Hi all, I've got questions about two different failure modes I experienced while trying to kickstart SL6.1 on some hardware to play with. First, when I kickstarted it on this hardware, it immediately hardlocked (display black, keyboard unresponsive with no

Re: Suggestion for a hard drive CUPS-like data base

2011-07-28 Thread Brent L. Bates
One point of clarification. CUPS was NOT developed by Apple, they bought it. I used to talk to the guy who actually created it many YEARS ago as free software. He then commercialized it some, then eventually sold it off. I guess Apple owns the rights to it now.

Re: WD Advanced Format hard drive issues

2011-07-28 Thread Jeff Siddall
On 07/28/2011 01:38 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: You state: Although the formatting was not done on SL6, SL6 did install on the existing partitions and seems to be working fine. On what system using what utilities did you format the WD drives? For the SL6 system the partitioning was either done

Re: Suggestion for a hard drive CUPS-like data base

2011-07-28 Thread Yasha Karant
On 07/28/2011 06:32 AM, Brent L. Bates wrote: One point of clarification. CUPS was NOT developed by Apple, they bought it. I used to talk to the guy who actually created it many YEARS ago as free software. He then commercialized it some, then eventually sold it off. I guess Apple owns

fontpath

2011-07-28 Thread jonathan
I forget to mention the fc-list command displays all the fonts. jonathan Hi, I am very confused about the fontpath in SL6. in the xorg.log i have FontPath set to: catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d, built-ins if I

fontpath

2011-07-28 Thread jonathan
Hi, I am very confused about the fontpath in SL6. in the xorg.log i have FontPath set to: catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d, built-ins if I run the chkfontpath --list command i have Current directories in font path: 1: catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d 2: /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts

Missing afs kernel modules for xen kernel 2.6.18-238.19.1el5xen

2011-07-28 Thread Zhi-Wei Lu
Hi SL maintainers: It appears that I can not find any of these RPMs in the latest security update, kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-238.19.1.el5xen-1.4.12-79.sl5.x86_64.rpm kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-238.19.1.el5xen-1.4.14-80.sl5.x8686_64.rpm I could not find any i686 RPMs as well. Is there an

Scientific Linux 6.1 is officially released

2011-07-28 Thread Troy Dawson
July 28, 2011 Scientific Linux 6.1 is now officially released and available. We want to thank everyone who has contributed, tested, and given us feedback. We feel that this is one of our best releases yet, and we couldn't have done it without the entire SL community. Scientific Linux 6.1 has

Re: Missing afs kernel modules for xen kernel 2.6.18-238.19.1el5xen

2011-07-28 Thread Troy Dawson
On 07/28/2011 11:04 AM, Zhi-Wei Lu wrote: Hi SL maintainers: It appears that I can not find any of these RPMs in the latest security update, kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-238.19.1.el5xen-1.4.12-79.sl5.x86_64.rpm kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-238.19.1.el5xen-1.4.14-80.sl5.x8686_64.rpm I could

Scientific Linux LiveCD/DVD 6.1 officially released

2011-07-28 Thread Urs Beyerle
Hi, Scientific Linux 6.1 LiveCD, LiveMiniCD and LiveDVD are also officially released. They are available for 32-bit and 64-bit and come with following window manager LiveMiniCD icewm LiveCD gnome LiveDVDgnome, kde, icewm Software was added from rpmforge, epel and elrepo

Re: [question] Wine in SL6

2011-07-28 Thread Pere Casas Puig
OK, now I have only two new questions:) 1. When trying to install wine, I have a dependency problem. package tcp_wrappers-libs-7.6-57.el6.rfx.x86_64 (Which is newer Than tcp_wrappers-libs-7.6-56.3.el6.i686) is already installed What I have to use tool to solve this problem? or I have to delete

SL 6.1 Upgrade Options

2011-07-28 Thread Morten P.D. Stevens
Hi, Here's a list of upgrade options from SL 6.0 to SL 6.1. Option 1: similar to RHEL / CentOS for i386 and x86_64: yum install yum-conf-sl6x yum clean all yum update Option 2: Scientific Linux way i386: rpm -Uvh

Re: WD Advanced Format hard drive issues

2011-07-28 Thread Yasha Karant
On 07/28/2011 04:29 PM, Alexander Hunt wrote: On 07/28/2011 08:09 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: On 07/28/2011 02:21 AM, Alexander Hunt wrote: On 07/28/2011 12:48 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: On 07/27/2011 11:23 PM, Steven J. Yellin wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Yasha Karant wrote: ... Is it safe to do

Re: WD Advanced Format hard drive issues

2011-07-28 Thread Steven J. Yellin
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Yasha Karant wrote: ... Also, I have built parted 3.0 on SL 6.1 (I have upgraded my workstation to 6.1 now that it has gone to production status). Does anyone have a current gparted or other GUI based partitioning utility that supports the features of parted 3 on SL

gparted 0.9 (was: Re: WD Advanced Format hard drive issues)

2011-07-28 Thread Yasha Karant
(Hopefully, this is a new thread, not a hijacked one.) On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Yasha Karant wrote: ... Also, I have built parted 3.0 on SL 6.1 (I have upgraded my workstation to 6.1 now that it has gone to production status). Does anyone have a current gparted or other GUI based partitioning