Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-20 Thread Parshwa Murdia
> -- Forwarded message -- > From: Tim > To: Community support for Fedora users > Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:49:19 +0930 > Subject: Re: Can one now help? > Tim: > If you have problems with swappiness being customised, then go back to > the original settings.

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-19 Thread Tim
Tim: >> I will judge that [1] link, then. I can see quite a few things that >> I wouldn't suggest someone does unless they know why they're doing >> it. 1. http://digitizor.com/2009/01/31/fedora-speed-tweaks-make-fedora-faster/ Parshwa Murdia: > So removing the following line from the sysctl.co

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-19 Thread Parshwa Murdia
> -- Forwarded message -- > From: Marko Vojinovic > To: Community support for Fedora users > Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:57:12 +0100 > Subject: Re: Can one now help? > On Monday, July 19, 2010 04:48:25 JD wrote: > > I wonder why the fedora installer did not

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-19 Thread Parshwa Murdia
> -- Forwarded message -- > From: Marko Vojinovic > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:35:36 +0100 > Subject: Re: Can one now help? > On Sunday, July 18, 2010 23:35:34 Parshwa Murdia wrote: > > Ok, as an aftermath,

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-18 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 17:56 -0400, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > Under this scheme, the first partition of your first disk will be > sda1. > Let's look at this: > > s - controller is SATA Or SCSI, or IDE... Long ago, it would have been "s" (in /dev/sda) for a SCSI device, or h for IDE (e.g. /de

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-18 Thread Tim
Parshwa Murdia: >> according to the link: >> >> http://digitizor.com/2009/01/31/fedora-speed-tweaks-make-fedora-faster/ Marko Vojinovic: > Not judging this particular link, but in general I wouldn't trust some > arbitrary advice on speed tweaks before I was sure to understand exactly what > the

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-18 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Monday, July 19, 2010 04:48:25 JD wrote: > I wonder why the fedora installer did not create a gpt partitioned disk, > instead of old dos partitioning scheme. Maybe because Windows was already installed previously, and had created the old dos scheme first? Best, :-) Marko -- users mailing li

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-18 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday, July 18, 2010 22:56:35 Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On 7/18/10, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 15737460824217 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda25738 30400 198105547+ f W95 Ext'd (L

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-18 Thread JD
On 07/18/2010 08:35 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sunday, July 18, 2010 23:35:34 Parshwa Murdia wrote: >>> the result of "fdisk -l /dev/sda" is as follows: >>> >>> Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes >>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders >>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 =

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-18 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday, July 18, 2010 23:35:34 Parshwa Murdia wrote: > > the result of "fdisk -l /dev/sda" is as follows: > > > > Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Disk identifier: 0xfedcfedc > >

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-18 Thread Parshwa Murdia
> -- Forwarded message -- > From: JD > To: Community support for Fedora users > Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:36:10 -0700 > Subject: Re: Can one now help? > > That's why I asked you to post your fstab to this list. > Almost anyone on this list could

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-18 Thread Parshwa Murdia
> -- Forwarded message -- > From: "Christofer C. Bell" > To: Community support for Fedora users > Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:56:35 -0400 > Subject: Re: Can one now help? > On 7/18/10, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > > The X there isn't really a

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-18 Thread JD
ject.org>>> > Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:31:48 -0700 >Subject: Re: Can one now help? > > Live CD also allows you to just boot the cd without installing it. > So, do not select install. just boot it and the desktop will >

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-18 Thread Parshwa Murdia
> > > -- Forwarded message -- >> > >> > > From: Marko Vojinovic >> > > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> > > Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:50:22 +0100 >> > > Subject: Re: Can one now help? >> >> This i

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-18 Thread Parshwa Murdia
t;> >>> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:31:48 -0700 >>>Subject: Re: Can one now help? >>> >> > >> Live CD also allows you to just boot the cd without installing it. >> So, do not select install. just boot it and the desktop will come up. >> in deskt

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-18 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On 7/18/10, JD wrote: As root: > > mount /dev/sda8 /mydisk > > would have mounted your fedora disk partition. This ignores the default use of LVM under Fedora. > How many extended partitions do you have? > Legacy partitions are a total of 4, and can be extended > by having an extended partiti

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-18 Thread JD
upport for Fedora users >>>> >>> <mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 >>>> 14:31:48 -0700 >>>> Subject: Re: Can one now help? >>> Live CD also allows you to just boot the cd without installing it.

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-18 Thread JD
> <mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > <mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org > <mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>>> > Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:31:48 -0700 >Subject: Re: Can one now help? >

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-18 Thread Christofer C. Bell
I noticed that I actually made a mistake in the below, here's the correction: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Christofer C. Bell In looking at your list here, it's likely that sda8 is your /boot > filesystem and that sd9 contains your root filesystem and swap partition > (assuming a default sele

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-18 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On 7/18/10, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > one things is that when you say sdXN, X is the drive letter means what > drive letter is give to the linux partition? in windows if i see, its H so > it should be like sdH9?? in the line: > > mount /dev/sdXN /mydisk > > but the error i get is: > * > mount: you

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
.fedoraproject.org>> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 > >>14:31:48 -0700 > >>Subject: Re: Can one now help? > > > > Live CD also allows you to just boot the cd without installing it. > > So, do not select install. just boot it and the desktop will come up. >

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-18 Thread Parshwa Murdia
> >-- Forwarded message -- >>From: JD mailto:jd1...@gmail.com>> >>To: Community support for Fedora users >>mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> >>Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:31:48 -0700 >>Subject: Re: Can one n

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-18 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday, July 18, 2010 15:39:43 Parshwa Murdia wrote: > > Boot from the rescue/install CD/DVD, mount the root partition and revert > > to the old fstab file from the backup. > > Please let me know how can i mount the root partition? I have booted from > the fedora core 11 cd and the icon 'Instal

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-18 Thread JD
:43:53 +0100 > Subject: Re: Can one now help? > On Saturday, July 17, 2010 21:18:47 Parshwa Murdia wrote: > > I have stuck in an awesome problem. Having fedora dual booted > with windows, > > i edited the /etc/fstab and /etc/sysctl.conf files, but now my &g

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-18 Thread Parshwa Murdia
> -- Forwarded message -- > From: Marko Vojinovic > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:43:53 +0100 > Subject: Re: Can one now help? > On Saturday, July 17, 2010 21:18:47 Parshwa Murdia wrote: > > I have stuck in an awesome pro

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-17 Thread JD
On 07/17/2010 01:18 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > I have stuck in an awesome problem. Having fedora dual booted with > windows, i edited the /etc/fstab and /etc/sysctl.conf files, but now > my PC is not booting in fedora, it is only booting in windows, though > it is showing the option to boot f

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-17 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Saturday, July 17, 2010 21:18:47 Parshwa Murdia wrote: > I have stuck in an awesome problem. Having fedora dual booted with windows, > i edited the /etc/fstab and /etc/sysctl.conf files, but now my PC is not > booting in fedora, it is only booting in windows, though it is showing the > option to

Can one now help?

2010-07-17 Thread Parshwa Murdia
I have stuck in an awesome problem. Having fedora dual booted with windows, i edited the /etc/fstab and /etc/sysctl.conf files, but now my PC is not booting in fedora, it is only booting in windows, though it is showing the option to boot from fedora, but after selecting too, it seems as if it is b