howto download i686 kernel on x86_64 box
by Mike Wright
Hi all,
I'm running f14-x86_64 but have a need for a f14.i686 kernel package
(kernel-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686). I'd also like to unpack it but not into
its default locations.
That leaves me with two questions:
How do I download it without installing it?
How do I unpack it into a safe location (such as /test)?
Been fiddling with yum and had no luck.
TIA,
Mike Wright
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updating initrd.img file of the pxe installation files
by Eric Doutreleau
Hi
i m trying to install f13 on a computer with cobbler and pxe but when i
boot the network card is not detected.
i would like to update the initrd image file with updated modules
Does anybody have a pointer on how to do that?
Thanks in advance for any help
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Eric Doutreleau
12 years, 10 months
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How to enable build a debuginfo package using rpmbuild locally on Fedora 14?
by yang.y.yi＠gmail.com
Hi,
i need to build a rpm package with debuginfo, this is the default result on
my Fedora 10, but on Fedora 14, rpmbuild didn't build a debuginfo package,
it is invalid to put "%define debug_package 1" in spec file, anybody knows
how to enable this? Thank in advance.
12 years, 10 months
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grub on raid1 cannot mount filesystem
by Pavel Lisy
Hello
I've found strange problem in new Fedora 15. I suppose it should work.
It's maybe fdisk or grub problem.
Normaly I have this (working) multiboot solution on my home PC:
On first small (100MB) partition are grub1 files only with this config
(grub is installed to MBR):
--- cut ---
title Fedora 15
root (hd0,2)
chainloader +1
title Fedora 14
root (hd0,4)
chainloader +1
title Ubuntu
root (hd0,5)
chainloader +1
--- cut ---
Grub of linux distributions is installed into their partitions
I want make the same on mirrored environment
2 HD in mirror (raid1):
size id OS/SW FS
1. part 200MB fd grub ext4
2. part 8GB 82 SWAP swap
3. part 10 GB fd fedora 15 ext4
4. part extended
5. part 10 GB fd fedora 14 ext4
6. part 10 GB fd ubuntu ext4
...
last part rest. of disk - LVM
I've installed Fedora 15 on
/dev/md0 (/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1) /boot
/dev/md1 (/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3) /
grub was in MBR and everything worked.
THIS WORKS:
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
When I want put grub of Fedora 15 to start of /dev/sda3 grub is
complaining:
THIS DOESN'T WORK:
grub> root (hd0,2)
grub> setup (hd0,2)
Error 17: cannot mount selected partition
Without mirror (raid1) it works. With raid1 it works only on first
partition. Can you explain me why?
Thanks in advance
Pavel
12 years, 10 months
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Where do yum downloaded package go
by shailesh
when we do yum install vlc then first it download packages and then
install it...please tell me where(in which folder)it download these packages???
12 years, 10 months
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Wine fonts makes html rendering on firefox and chrome much worse
by Fernando Lozano
Hi there,
Please someone help me find out how to solve this problem: for some weeks I
have been experiencing problems with fonts on Firefox and Chrome when
acessing two different webmail systems. At first I though the problem was
caused by remi RPMs I used to install Firefox 4 on Fedora 14. I installed
Fedora 15 and everything was fine for a while, and then fonts became
strange again. When firefox started having font problems, Google Chrome
started also.
The problem was: Bold fonts and regular fonts look almost the same. Bold
fonts had a wider average character width, but were not thicker.
So I got another computer, installed Fedora 15 from scratch, and compared
the results. Everything fine. Updated all packages, including rpmfusion
ones. Also fine.
Then I noticed the new system was missing some packages I use, I guess they
come from rpmfusion: gnome-mplayer and wine. After installing those, the
font problem in Firefox and Chrome was back again.
But this time I saved the output of rpm -qa at each step, then I compared
the latest working state with the one that wasn't. I noticed there are a
number of wine-*-fonts packages, and removed then (I also had to remove
wine itself). Problem solved!
Can anyone explain why either wine itself (or wine fonts) interfere with
web browser page rendering?
And how can I re-install wine without messing up with web page fonts?
[]s, Fernando Lozano
12 years, 10 months
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