Upgrading : give me strength ...
by Beartooth
I've tried all the tricks on this list a/o the troubleshooting
site, over and over. I finally gave up : downloaded and burned a DVD --
and *still* hit the catch-22 error, with too little space in mnt/sysimage/
boot.
Now what?
Can I simply delete all of /boot, or everything in it? All of
grub.conf? Or what? It's going to be a royal pain if I have to burn all
my data to media, and then sneakermail that back onto each machine,
instead of just upgrading f11 ....
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Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
11 years, 5 months
gpk-update-viewer vs. yum
by Beartooth
Is it just me??
I've noticed, on several machines (PC, laptop, netbook) that if
the machine has no connection, or thinks it has none, the gpk function
claims there are no updates; but if I doubt that and run yum update, it
may immediately get over a hundred -- or at least report a failure to
connect.
Couldn't gpk do the same??
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Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
11 years, 5 months
Enabling Airport wireless on Macbook Air with F12
by Colin Paul Adams
Thanks to Chris Smart, Peter Danenberg and others, I have been able to
install Fedora 12 as the sole O/S on my Macbook Air (first
generation).
However the wirless networking is not enabled.
I am following the instructions in
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/wireless-guide/f12/en-US/html-single/#chap-... .
There was no wireless device shown in the network Configuration, so I
clicked New and added a device for hardware Apple Airport.
I also tried adding wireless device on the Hardware tab (eth0), but although
it allows me to do this, after I save and then reopen the Network
Configuration, the hardware only shows a device pan0 of Type Ethernet
(which was there from the start). It does appear on the Devices tab
(it didn't originally until I added it), but has staus of inactive,
and no means to activate it.
However, even after restarting the computer, the wireless icon on the
panel says there are no network devices available.
So I tried removing the device from control by NetworkManager, and
activated it manually. But then I get:
Device eth0 does seem to be present, delaying initalization.
What do I need to do?
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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire
11 years, 7 months
Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] btrfs for Fedora 12 and 13 LiveCD/DVD ?
by dexter
On 25 April 2010 19:47, Alan Pevec <apevec gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Valent Turkovic
> <valent.turkovic gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> how to make Fedora 12 and Fedora 13 LiveCD/DVD that is btrfs formated
>> and not ext4?
>> What options need to be enables in kicstart file so that
>> livecd-creator makes btrfs iso images?
>
> Didn't try it, but should be enough to change fstype in fedora-live-base.ks
>> part / --size 3072 --fstype ext4
>
> Alan
CrossPosting:
A quick scan reveals adjusting fstype will not be enuff, btrfs uses
different userspace tools from ext[34] "btrfs-progs", so livecd-tools
will need a patch.
...dex
11 years, 8 months
Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb
by Luigi Castro Cardeles
Hi list,
I use fedora 12 on a dell inspiron 1545 laptop.
(2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64).
i have a external usb hd and i can't make it connect like a usb 2.0 device.
this device is ntfs format
I check if the device is using ehci (dmesg after i plug the device)
[root@localhost ~]# dmesg | grep USB
usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
I check if this device is connected on a usb 2.0
[root@localhost ~]# lsusb
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 015: ID 0471:2021 Philips
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
I mount the device with this options:
/dev/sdc1 on /media/hd_backup type fuseblk
(rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
but when i use cp, mv or rsync, the max speed i get is max 6MB/s (a lot
800kB/s).
If i use this device on Windows (tested with Vista and Seven), i get much
high transfer rate.
I read about sync and async options, but if i put sync or async on fstab, it
does not alter the transfer rate.
Is this the normal upload transfer rate? I am doing something wrong?
[]'s
Luigi Castro Cardeles
11 years, 9 months
system-config-display issue Fedora13 RC3
by davidapr＠gmail.com
Hey im having problems when i try to execute system-config-display in my
fedora13 RC3
The message im gettin is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 378, in <module>
dialog = xConfigDialog.XConfigDialog(hardware_state, xconfig,
videocard.VideoCardInfo())
File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xConfigDialog.py", line 640, in
__init__
if len(self.xconfig.layout[0].adjacencies) > 1:
IndexError: index out-of-bounds
Any ideas why im having this issue?
Thanks
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David A. Paredes R.
11 years, 10 months
eSATA removable drive
by D. Hugh Redelmeier
I have an eSATA external hard drive case. I want to hotplug / unplug it.
My system is Fedora 11.
I added an external eSATA port on my desktop computer by adding a bracket
(with an internal cable connected to one of the ordinary SATA sockets on
the motherboard.)
The SATA controller is an intel ICH9R. To make hotplug work, I needed
to go the computer's BIOS and change the SATA mode to AHCI (it was
IDE).
I can now hotplug the drive.
I cannot unplug the drive. If I tell the system to eject the drive,
it complains:
# eject /dev/sdi
eject: device "/dev/sdi" doesn't have a removable or hotpluggable flag
# cat /sys/block/sdi/removable
0
(I don't know where or what a hotpluggable flag is.)
I guess that makes sense: the system doesn't know that I added an
eSATA bracket.
What are the reasonable ways to tell the system that that SATA port is
an eSATA port and should allow for hotplugging/unplugging?
My guess is some kind of HAL rule but I'm not an initiate. Maybe
something in here would work:
<http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_hotswap_UltraBay_devices>
Surely lots of people have already encountered this issue. If so,
there ought to be a non-wizard way to handle it.
11 years, 10 months
