Re: FC2 & Via CPU
by Dalibor Malek
Hi Dave,
Thank you for your Answer but I still have a little problem.
These are the steps
1) Download
http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/RPMS.kernel/kernel-2.6.6-1.383.i586.rpm
2) burn it on to a CD as a file on its own call it KERNEL RPM CD
3) Download http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/c3boot.iso
4) burn this on to a CD as a CD image, call it C3 BOOT CD
5) boot off C3 BOOT CD
6) at the first menu swap in the normal FC2 CD1 and install FC2
7) on install completion, boot again off C3 BOOT CD... but...
8) type linux rescue at the grub prompt
9) when it is finished booting, type chroot /mnt/sysimage
10) swap in the KERNEL RPM CD
11) mkdir mymount
12) mount /dev/hdc mymount -t iso9660
13) cd mymount
14) rpm -Uvf kernel-2.6.6-1.383.i586.rpm
15) type exit (I think) to reboot
Well everything is working and done until I get to step 12.
Step 12 is not functioning, The system says something like mymount is
already in use or hdc is already mounted. Both is wrong hdc is not
mounted (I can't unmount it), and mymount is not in use cause I can
delete it.
/dev/cdrom doesn’t exists.
How can I find and mount my CDROM?
Any suggestion?
Thank You
Dalibor Malek
Ed wrote:
>Here's the bugzilla thread:
>http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120685
>
>The workaround is at the bottom of the page. You'll need to download
>the .iso, burn it to CD, boot from it, switch to the FC2 installer CDs,
>install the supplied kernel, and then you're set.
>
>I got FC2 running on my Via C3 CPU system.
>
>Best of luck! A few extra steps, but I'm glad there's a solution.
>
>--Ed
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19 years, 11 months
Install over SSH
by Bernhard Janetzki
Hello,
i'm considering to install Fedora on my Rootserver.
Now im wondering how realise this.
Thank you very much.
Greets Börni
19 years, 11 months
creating a kickstart cd containing needed rpms
by duncan brown
i want to create a kickstart cd that contains ONLY the rpms that i need to
install my system (gnome/etc), and no packages that i don't want (say text
based internet, print support).
what i need to do:
figure out the dependencies for everything and have them available
have the boot loader specify the kickstart file on the cdrom automatically
this is all for a rescue cd for my mother in case her system takes a crap
and i can't ssh in or get out to her to fix it. all she should have to do
is turn the computer on adn pop that cd in, everything else is automatic.
all responses will be documented and formed into a howto for future use.
-d
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19 years, 11 months
Windows Domain auth for Linux boxes
by Matt Morgan
This is not specifically a Fedora question, but there are a lot of smart
people on this list ... hopefully somebody can point me in the right
direction.
I would like to switch my organization from Windows 2000 professional to
Linux on the desktop. I am satisfied enough with the performance of
OpenOffice.org to substitute it for MS-Office, and we already use
Thunderbird and Firefox for email/web. I'm not worried about the apps,
in other words. What we have that is Windows-only can be run on our
Terminal Servers.
It's authentication that worries me. Our servers are a mix of Windows
2000/2003 and Linux, and our primary authentication is against Windows
2000 Active Directory servers. What we are having difficulty replicating
under Linux is the ease of domain logins on the workstations, where
essentially there are no local accounts; the workstation is a member of
the domain and it trusts domain accounts for local login. So
authentication is almost entirely centralized; anyone can login to any
workstation (within limits we set) on the domain, and we don't have to
do anything to copy accounts to each workstation. While we may
eventually dispense with the Active Directory servers, they will be with
us through the transition period (1.5 to 2 years, I estimate) and maybe
longer, so some system that allows compatible, shared auth between
Windows and Linux workstations is a requirement for our transition.
Xandros Desktop Linux has done a lot of work, starting back when they
were Corel Linux 1.0, in creating a system of Windows domain login that
works under Linux. See
http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT4559768996.html
for details of how this should work, and does work under Xandros. But
Xandros is uncomfortably proprietary for me and I would much prefer a
more open solution. As far as I can tell, Xandros does not make it easy
to use their domain auth system generally, with other distros for
example. In the interview at the link above, the Xandros rep claims
there is no other distro that does this--while I don't know of any that
do, it seems like such an obvious goal that I'd be very surprised if
nobody else is at least working on it.
Has anybody done this on their system with more open tools? Or another
option seems to be maintaining an NIS server that somehow replicates
accounts with the AD servers, so that NIS handles Linux login, while AD
handles only Windows--anybody tried that? Or if anybody else has come up
with other solutions to this or similar problems, please write in. We
have looked at all the PAM options--kerberos, LDAP, etc.--and none of
them look quite as good as what Xandros has done; but if they work for
you, I'm very interested in hearing your stories.
Thanks,
Matt Morgan
Manager of Information Systems
Brooklyn Museum
19 years, 11 months
FC2 and DPMS
by Dave Ulrick
Hi,
Has anyone figured out any way with FC2 and/or xorg to configure DPMS to
shut off your monitor only when the system is idle, but not while I'm in
the middle of doing something? I ran into this problem with the monitor
shutting off while I was actively using my FC2 system:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123879
I've gotten rather spoiled by DPMS, and have gotten in the habit of
letting it turn my monitors off for me, so I'm having a hard time getting
used to turning my monitor off with the old-fashioned power switch. :-)
Thanks,
Dave
--
Dave Ulrick
Email: d-ulrick(a)niu.edu
Web: http://www.niu.edu/~ulrick/
19 years, 11 months
re: FYI KVM
by Dwaine Castle
Pricewatch has
Avocent SV400PS2-AM listed for $76.15
Zonet KVM3004 $42.00
So, while Zonet supports Linux, but not Fedora, Keith Lofstrom has an FC2
system working on his Zonet KVM3004 switch. FC2 is less tolerant of KVM
switches than previous releases. Has anybody successfully used the Avocent
with FC2?
I think Zonet owes Keith pizza and beer.
Poor Keith needs to get a little attitude though. Otherwise people will
just walk all over him. HA!
Thanks.
Dwaine
19 years, 11 months
Fedora's PHP binary pretty slow for CGI
by David Garamond
I am still running RH73 with PHP packages from Troels Arvin:
http://rpms.troels.arvin.dk/
The packages are now unmaintained and they are stuck at PHP 4.2.2. Today
I thought I'd try building FC2's PHP on RH73. Not exactly a
straightforward process, but after tweaking the spec file a bit and
upgrading some libraries it managed to build.
I see that the PHP binary produced by Fedora's package is relatively fat
(+- 3MB in size, with most PHP extensions built into the binary). In
contrast, Troels' PHP binary is much more slim (+- 1MB in size, most PHP
extensions is separated).
The problem is, Fedora's PHP binary adds a big overhead when being used
in CGI application. Just running "php -q" would take +- 0.14 sec. on my
system, where Troels' binary only takes +- 0.017s. Most of the overhead
is due to loading the many shared libraries.
Perhaps it can be slimmed down a bit? 0.14s overhead is too much I
think. In comparison, "perl -v" only took 0.015s and "ruby -v" took 0.017s.
--
dave
19 years, 11 months
losing .so files
by Chris Torske
Hello,
I am coming up with a problem that I have been running into more and
more often. I am not sure if I am doing something wrong every time or
what, just don't understand.
The issue I am coming up with quite often, is that Linux starts to loose
shared librarys. To be more specific, right away the system works
perfectly; knowing where all the shared librarys that is installed is.
Then slowly and progressively, starts complaining that it can't find a
random shared library. It keeps on getting worse and worse, loosing the
location of more and more of them. It isn't really loosing them in the
sense that they aren't on they system. As like this time around for me,
yum is saying that it can't find "lib-org-apache-bcel-5.0.so". I was
checking the web for a possible location where is it, and maybe
reinstall the package. I say it is most times installed in the
/usr/lib/ directory. Doing "ls /usr/lib/lib-org-apache-bc*" results
with "/usr/lib/lib-org-apache-bcel-5.0.so"; the exact file I am
supposedly missing. From remembering that most times that directory is
automaticaly checked, when you run ldconfig. After running that, yum
still complains I am missing that same file. I have tried on other
times when this has happened, to copy that file around, to pretty much
every single folder I can find; and still doesn't releave the problem.
This problem is not has also been happening on me on other distro's too,
including other versions on kernels. I have even got it go to the
point, where the system has even lost the a main rpm library. I don't
remember that exact name off hand. I just installed this copy just
about 5 days, so it hasn't been too long on this around. I would really
like to keep this os for more then a month this time around. Any ideas
on how to fix this? I haven't checked the rpm database yet, I am
planning to check that tomorrow after work.
Chris T.
19 years, 11 months
non-root usb scanning
by Peter L. Hurd
Hey All,
I'm still trying to get my usb scanner to work for non-root users.
I've found the device file with the 0644 permissions that is causing the
problem at /proc/bus/usb/001/002. I can chmod that file a+rw and mortal
user scanning works, but that needs to be re-chmodded each time I
reboot. I suppose I could add a line to rc.local, but that would be
tacky, and I suppose may fail when other usb devices move around.
The solution sounds like either one of:
1) Make all usb devices have mode 0666. I added the line
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults,devmode=0666 0 0
to fstab. But it doesn't work! The scanner still comes up 0644. Why?
2) muck around with hotplug. I honestly don't intend on hotplugging my
scanner and the last time I mucked around with hotplug was to get my
Axim to hotplug/synce/multisync and the whole thing just left me with a
rash... I want option 1,
Any ideas why option 1 doesn't work. Has anyone actually gotten option
2 to work (please don't say "I havn't but it ought to").
-P.
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Assistant Professor University of Alberta
Ph 780.492-3578, Fax 780.492-1768 Edmonton, Alberta
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19 years, 11 months
