Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-19 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:19:18 -0500 John Morris wrote: > Which brings up a good point. I know that the only way to be sure is > booting the machine from a known good[1] rescue media and then check > with a copy of RPM running from there using the --root option to point > at the suspect filesystem

RE: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 02:20 -0700, Dan Mashal wrote: > Was replying to the quote below, with some additional responses now. Then avoid confusion by not top-posting, which you have done persistently throughout this thread. Read the list Guidelines. poc -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproje

RE: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-19 Thread Dan Mashal
Was replying to the quote below, with some additional responses now. Dan -Original Message- On Behalf Of John Morris Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 7:19 PM To: For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases Subject: Re: F17 Beta DVD install options On the other hand, has there

RE: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 00:27 -0700, Dan Mashal wrote: > If the NSA wants to look at your machine, they don't need your root password. Erm...I didn't say anything about the NSA. I'm not sure where you're getting that idea. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_F

RE: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-19 Thread Dan Mashal
PM To: For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases Subject: Re: F17 Beta DVD install options On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 21:19 -0500, John Morris wrote: > On the other hand, has there ever been a real case found in the wild > of an infestation that was so good at covering its tracks? The

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options [OT]

2012-04-18 Thread Tommy Pham
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Tommy Pham wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Tommy Pham wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Felix Miata wrote: >>> On 2012/04/18 09:42 (GMT-0700) Tommy Pham composed: >>> Tried a i386 F17 Beta on an old Dell Optiplex GX280 machine here at >>

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 21:19 -0500, John Morris wrote: > On the other hand, has there ever been a real case found in the wild of > an infestation that was so good at covering its tracks? The security > problems I saw in the past were the crudest script kiddies and I haven't > even seen one of thos

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 02:30 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: > > And rpm -Va doesn't > > show anything nasty in the packages that would give an intruder an in. > > If someone's owned the machine, they can make rpm -Va say whatever they > like. Which brings up a good point. I know that the only way

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options [OT]

2012-04-18 Thread Tommy Pham
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Tommy Pham wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Felix Miata wrote: >> On 2012/04/18 09:42 (GMT-0700) Tommy Pham composed: >> >>> Tried a i386 F17 Beta on an old Dell Optiplex GX280 machine here at >>> work and works fine.  However my new upgraded home machi

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 19:25 -0500, John Morris wrote: > On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 18:13 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > Not all hacks involve the attacker posting some kind of 'HAHA U HAZ BEEN > > HACKED' notice to let you know about it. Those are the _nice_ hackers. > > Well they usually DO some

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread John Morris
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 18:13 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: > Not all hacks involve the attacker posting some kind of 'HAHA U HAZ BEEN > HACKED' notice to let you know about it. Those are the _nice_ hackers. Well they usually DO something with a machine they have 0wn3ed. No spam spewing forth, no

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options [OT]

2012-04-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 14:17 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 14:00, Felix Miata wrote: > > Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! > > > > Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ > > -- > > Another OS/2 user joins the Fedora Family. I remember you from the > OS/

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread Timothy Davis
> > On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 12:22 -0400, David wrote: > > On 4/18/2012 11:11 AM, Dan Mashal wrote: > > > My system is secure. Thanks for your concern. > > > > > Fedora 14 is EOL since one month after Fedora 16. Fedora 15 will be EOL > > one month after Fedora 17. A long time with no security patches

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options [OT]

2012-04-18 Thread Tommy Pham
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2012/04/18 09:42 (GMT-0700) Tommy Pham composed: > >> Tried a i386 F17 Beta on an old Dell Optiplex GX280 machine here at >> work and works fine.  However my new upgraded home machine fails :( > > >> Hardware info: > > >> * Gigabyte GA-990F

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread Dan Mashal
I can upgrade. I know how to. It's actually a Virtualbox VM running on a quad core AMD box with 16GB of RAM. Yes, it is natted. Yes SSH is open to the internet. Yes nginx is open to the internet. Yes other ports are open to the internet. No I've never gotten hacked. Any other questions? Tha

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options [OT]

2012-04-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 14:00, Felix Miata wrote: >  Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! > > Felix Miata  ***  http://fm.no-ip.com/ > -- Another OS/2 user joins the Fedora Family. I remember you from the OS/2 lists Felix, welcome. :) FC -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproj

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 12:05 -0500, John Morris wrote: > It is behind a NAT on a home network so I don't worry too much about it > getting hacked. Firefox is almost certainly vulnerable but you rarely > see active attacks in the wild against Linux browsers, especially if you > don't hang out at do

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread John Morris
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 12:22 -0400, David wrote: > On 4/18/2012 11:11 AM, Dan Mashal wrote: > > My system is secure. Thanks for your concern. > > > Fedora 14 is EOL since one month after Fedora 16. Fedora 15 will be EOL > one month after Fedora 17. A long time with no security patches of any > kind

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 09:42 -0700, Tommy Pham wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 09:50 -0700, Tommy Pham wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Has anyone tried the recent beta released on DVD? > > > > Yes. > > > >> Does it give > >> various install optio

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options [OT]

2012-04-18 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012/04/18 09:42 (GMT-0700) Tommy Pham composed: Tried a i386 F17 Beta on an old Dell Optiplex GX280 machine here at work and works fine. However my new upgraded home machine fails :( Hardware info: * Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX * 3ware 9650SE-8LPML wit

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread Dan Mashal
I know Fedora 14 is EOL. And sorry, I'm not that type. Try again. Dan On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 04/18/2012 09:22 AM, David wrote: > >> On 4/18/2012 11:11 AM, Dan Mashal wrote: >> >>> My system is secure. Thanks for your concern. >>> >>> Dan >>> >> >> >> Fedora 14

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/18/2012 09:22 AM, David wrote: On 4/18/2012 11:11 AM, Dan Mashal wrote: My system is secure. Thanks for your concern. Dan Fedora 14 is EOL since one month after Fedora 16. Fedora 15 will be EOL one month after Fedora 17. A long time with no security patches of any kind for any package

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread Tommy Pham
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 09:50 -0700, Tommy Pham wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Has anyone tried the recent beta released on DVD? > > Yes. > >> Does it give >> various install options like F16? > > Yes. > >>   The alpha F17 only installed bare >> minimal

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread David
s.fedoraproject.org >> [mailto:test-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Josh Boyer >> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 4:52 AM >> To: For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases >> Subject: Re: F17 Beta DVD install options >> >> On Wed, Apr 18,

RE: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 08:06 -0700, Dan Mashal wrote: > For what? Everything works fine. For you, and for all those other people you're kindly allowing access to your box...=) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happ

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 01:49 -0700, Dan Mashal wrote: > Well that's an Anaconda bug isn't it? :) > > > Still not a reason for a rolling release. Why is it a bug at all? Why wouldn't you want that? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adam

RE: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread Dan Mashal
ent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 4:52 AM > To: For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases > Subject: Re: F17 Beta DVD install options > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Dan Mashal wrote: >> Well that's an Anaconda bug isn't it? :) >> >> Still not

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread David
: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 4:52 AM > To: For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases > Subject: Re: F17 Beta DVD install options > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Dan Mashal wrote: >> Well that's an Anaconda bug isn't it? :) >> >> Still not

RE: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread Dan Mashal
Beta DVD install options On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Dan Mashal wrote: > Well that's an Anaconda bug isn't it? :) > > Still not a reason for a rolling release. > > I quite enjoy Fedora 14. Please, if you do nothing else, upgrade your kernel manually. josh -

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Dan Mashal wrote: > Well that's an Anaconda bug isn't it? :) > > Still not a reason for a rolling release. > > I quite enjoy Fedora 14. Please, if you do nothing else, upgrade your kernel manually. josh -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread Dan Mashal
Well that's an Anaconda bug isn't it? :) Still not a reason for a rolling release. I quite enjoy Fedora 14. Thanks, Dan On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:06:42 -0700 > Dan Mashal wrote: > > > You can install updates during the initial OS install. Jus

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:06:42 -0700 Dan Mashal wrote: > You can install updates during the initial OS install. Just select updates > and updates-testing repo. You will need network when you do this. You can do that, but then you find you can't restrict the install to packages only appearing on the

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-18 Thread Dan Mashal
You can install updates during the initial OS install. Just select updates and updates-testing repo. You will need network when you do this. So why do we need a "rolling release" again? Dan On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:02 PM, John Wendel wrote: > On 04/17/2012 01:43 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-17 Thread John Wendel
On 04/17/2012 01:43 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:38:17 -0700 Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: Why is it that yum update pulls in some 500 MB of updates immediately after installing a brand new DVD? Why does the install image have to be riddled with stale files? This is du

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-17 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:38:17 -0700 Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > Why is it that yum update pulls in some 500 MB of updates > immediately after installing a brand new DVD? Why does > the install image have to be riddled with stale files? This is due to the freeze. Things are frozen while

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-17 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Why is it that yum update pulls in some 500 MB of updates immediately after installing a brand new DVD? Why does the install image have to be riddled with stale files? -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R c...@omen.com www.omen.com Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications

Re: F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 09:50 -0700, Tommy Pham wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone tried the recent beta released on DVD? Yes. > Does it give > various install options like F16? Yes. > The alpha F17 only installed bare > minimal. Um, no it didn't. It had a full set of install options and defaulted

F17 Beta DVD install options

2012-04-17 Thread Tommy Pham
Hi, Has anyone tried the recent beta released on DVD? Does it give various install options like F16? The alpha F17 only installed bare minimal. TIA, Tommy -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test