Help with installation.
by Simon Slater
Being a newbie to Linux, I am attempting to install Fedora from CDs
supplied with ht book Official Fedora Companion onto an AMD K6/200 with
256MB RAM; 1x2.1GB and 1x40GB (only 20GB of which is recognized). I am
encountering 2 error messages:
1. /dev/hdb is inconsistent
. Linux detected BIOS geometry incorrectly
Using LBA is recommended. Both hard drives are in BIOS as LBA.
2. You are trying to install on a machine which is not supported by this
release of Fedora Core
These CDs installed successfully onto a PII with 64MB RAM, but ran slowly.
Are these messages related, or is the AMD platform a problem? Where should
I go from here?
Simon
19 years, 3 months
Red Hat Summit: how much Fedora?
by Matthew Miller
Saw the announcement for this:
<http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/>
The "Technical Track" description says:
Technical Track: Interactive sessions will feature topics such as
performance optimization, Fedora Project, open source technology trends
and high performance computing clusters.
If there are actual Fedora-summit discussions and meaningful work going on,
I'd be very interested in attending. However, if it's largely a marketing
fest, I'd rather not.
Anyone else going? Any RH technical people have opinions about the
usefulness?
(Feel free to mail me off-list about this, if need be!)
--
Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
19 years, 3 months
hfsplusutils
by Raffi Khatchadourian
Has anyone encountered an rpm of hfsplusutils for fedora?
19 years, 3 months
[Follow-up] Xmodmap and GNOME FC3
by Malcolm Cowe
I've finally managed to sit down and spend a little time with XKB in
order to wean myself off Xmodmap and get control of my keyboard back
under GNOME.
Since I have been reading elsewhere that other people have had issues
with Xmodmap and GNOME interoperability and since I have previously
posted about this on fedora-list, I thought I'd write a quick note on
the, let's call it technique, I employed. It's actually quite similar to
the method I originally used to set up my Xmodmap file.
Launch xev from a terminal window. While the xev target window
has focus, I press all of the keys which need to be configured. The
output is quite verbose. The following example is for the eject key on a
UK Macintosh keyboard:
KeyPress event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x3000001,
root 0x8d, subw 0x0, time 3056554, (-600,696), root:(492,745),
state 0x0, keycode 204 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x3000001,
root 0x8d, subw 0x0, time 3056554, (-600,696), root:(492,745),
state 0x0, keycode 204 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
Take a note of the keycode (204 in this example). What I did next was to
look up this keycode in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86, which
returned the following entry:
xfree86: <K6C> = 204; // <I4C>
Finally, I added this entry into the symbols file for my keyboard. For a
UK Macintosh keyboard, the file is:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh
Within the section xkb_symbols "basic", add the following:
key <K6C> { [ XF86Eject ] };
Repeat the process for all other keys.
I also added in the following line to this section:
include "srvr_ctrl(xfree86)"
This is necessary in order to be able to switch to a virtual console from X.
There are a couple of gotchas:
1. <KPEQ> does not match the UK Macintosh keypad equals sign. I had to
use <K59>. Similarly, the ~` key at the bottom left was matched against
<LSGT>.
2. I still cannot select a thread in thunderbird with shift-control-a,
even under the failsafe session.
3. Under GNOME, I cannot assign a shortcut key to "Log Out". That is to
say, I can make the assignment using the "Preferences->Keyboard
Shortcuts" dialog, but when I try to use the key nothing happens.
Assigning the same key to a different shortcut works though. Guess I'll
just have to stick with control-alt-delete.
Regards,
Malcolm.
19 years, 3 months
VI Stuff needed...
by Nikhil
Hi All,
Wishing you all a Happy and Prosperous New Year 2005 coming
I have a query , in VI , when I write a code , I use '%' to jump to
the next '}' or '{' , but when I am writing an HTML code , I simply
want is jump to '<' and '>' when I press <Esc>% , I think it should
happen ,even I tried to install matchit plugin in my VIM , but canot
get it,
Could any one please show me how could I set '%' key to jump to next
'>' or '<' , when I edit an *HTML* file .
~Nikhil.
°v°
/(_)\
^ ^
19 years, 3 months
minimum memory footprint for core 3? other?
by Max L. Eidswick
I have quite a few Pentium 166MHz, 8MB RAM systems that I want to use as
network attached storage control units - supporting internal IDE-based disk
storage and external USB- or FireWire-based external drives.
Any thoughts about what version of Linux is best suited for these boxes?
I need to have basic network support for the Intel Pro 100 LAN card, the
PCI-based USB 2.0 and/or FireWire adapter (probably the VIA chipset which I
have had lots of problems with), SMB, NFS, and probably CIFS file system
support. I plan to run the boxes without a console (i.e., no keyboard,
mouse, or monitor) so I don't need to waste space on any GUI support, etc.
I really have to live with the 8MB limit for these boxes (at least 300 of
them), so I will probably have to hack one of the older kernels, but it
would be great to be able to use FC3. I have been testing with RH 7-9 and
now with FC3 on our development machines.
TIA,
Max
19 years, 3 months
Re: Fedora on servers
by Paul Flanders
I have many RH9 servers running and need to upgrade, i have been putting
in FC1 servers as 'i feel' it seems bit safer knowing that FC1 was very
stable has lots of updates and runs well on DELL servers and after the
hassle with FC2 (ended up going back to FC1) and FC3 (can not get samba
working fully 'dont ask!') I think at the moment ill stick to RH9 and
FC1. The "legacy" 15-18 month business is a bit worrying especially if
the FC versions cycle out very quickly. I may look at RH Enterprise but
there is a cost to it. I manage over 50 RH servers and i really dont
like the idea of upgrading them all to often especially when so much
seems to break between versions.
Paul
19 years, 3 months
logrotate and mailman
by Paul Tomblin
I just noticed that the mailman bounce log messages aren't going into
/var/log/mailman/bounce, but rather to /var/log/mailman/bounce.1. It
looks a lot like logrotate did the actual log file rotation, but
didn't do whatever it takes to make mailman close its log files and
open them again.
--
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we
are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and
servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Teddy Roosevelt
19 years, 3 months
