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How an amateur figured it out
by Truls Gulbrandsen 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Hi there, I was determind to test FC4t1 so I downloaded and burned the DVD ISO. I loaded the DVD and failed the media check. However, I suspected this from reading some of the mails here. I installed, it went ok. Entered terminal, <alt-ctrl-f1> and tried the "yum update dgm". It didn't work, then I found another mail suggesting "yum update gdm wfm." which did the trick. Now I was able to log in as root and creat a user id. Then I tried several times to run "yum update" with variable success untill I figured out that I could edit yum.conf and set "gpgcheck=0". Suddenly I had more than 600 updates to my system and things work almost as with my FC3 installation. And a lot faster than before this big update. I installed the FC4t1 on an IBM TP T30 with a 12 GB HD. Thanks to all of you knowledable people posting solutions. Regards, Truls

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pata support in sata_promise driver?
by Jim Bevier 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

I have been waiting for several months for this libata patch to be integrated into the kernel. It seems to have made it into Ubuntu and maybe other distros, but I still have to build my own kernel to get pata drives to be seen on the promise sata controller in Fedora. Is there a chance the patch from Jeff will make it into FC4 sometime? I would really like to use my pata drives (non-root) in FC4t1 and have them recognized during install. Jim

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RE: FC4 Test 1 Install Report (Failed! BOO! :)
by Dana Lacoste 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Well, I found out the solution to the problem: Linux was seeing the drive in LBA (5 digit 'cylinders', 16 heads, 63 sectors) and windows was expecting CHS (7752/240/63) (or do I have that backwards? Windows wanted the '240' one anyways, and linux was doing the 'other' one) So installing with "hda=7752,240,63" fixed the problem. Is there a way we can make disk druid write the partition table in the pre-existing format, if there are other partitions that aren't being deleted? This would've prevented a lot of headaches :) Interestingly enough, I was NOT getting the same error that other people were getting: grub WAS able to boot "through" to windows, but windows wasn't able to continue very far: I didn't stop at the "chainloader +1" window, but much further past that. I can only theorize that it's because in LBA and in CHS mode, 0,1,1 goes to the same place and XP is the first partition on the drive, so it "worked" a little bit. Hope nobody else finds this one! http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/ documents how to get around this (and how to fix it if it 'goes bad') Dana Lacoste -----Original Message----- From: Dana Lacoste To: 'fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com' Sent: 3/21/2005 1:27 PM Subject: FC4 Test 1 Install Report (Failed! BOO! :) So after a couple of years of using FC1 I thought I'd take my handy new laptop (thank you work!) and put FC4 on it. Here's a long-ish story of my install adventure. If you don't want to read the story, my fatal error is at the bottom, and I'm definitely open to suggestions on how to prevent or fix it! I don't know if I should enter it in bugzilla though: does anyone know what the specific issue is? I tried searching through buzilla but I couldn't find this issue.... Anyways, on with the story : Hardware is an IBM Thinkpad R50p. P4-M, ATI FireGL. 60G hard drive and 2G RAM. Shouldn't be any problems, now should there? Downloaded 4 CD ISOs, installed without any problems, picked my list of applications and installed away. I had a system with my work-provided Windows XP partition that I had resized with a rescue CD and qtparted and was planning on using half the drive for FC4, half for XP. System installed fine, no problems, rebooted, FC4 loaded, everything seemed to work fine, with only two "warnings" : - One of the system startup scripts failed. I couldn't tell which one though because it gave pages of errors. I'll figure it out some day: it didn't seem important to me :) - It went from disk 1 to 2 to 3 to 4, then BACK to disk 2. Why? Why couldn't it install the disk 2 packages (TeX stuff) the first time it was on disk 2? I could live with those though: EVERYTHING else worked perfectly, no problems, no issues. Graphics and sound and everything. I was very happy. So I decided to reboot into windows to see if I had been booked into any meetings in outlook (I know, use evolution, but I had spent a couple of hours by this point, so I thought I should check out windows. Windows started to load (off my grub option) then almost immediately failed and BSOD'd with an error "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297185 documents this error. Rebooting and trying "safe mode with console" showed that it wasn't able to access files off the disk, somehow, while booting (????) I said "OK" and did some more investigating. I tried the following : - Rerun qtparted to delete linux partitions - Rerun linux install without grub - Run Windows XP "Repair Console" It was this last that showed a hint: it saw the disk "C:" as a single partition of 60GB. Not a 30GB partition for Windows XP. So I thought "hey, grub is putting the partition table in a weird state." I reinstalled XP (problem went away) and reinstalled without grub. Same error, repeated. So I did some more investigating and this is my conclusion : PROBLEM: FC4 Disk Druid re-writes the partition table in a format (somehow) that Windows XP can't understand. SOLUTION: Don't use disk druid? (BUT if I don't do this, then how the hell do I install? The automated partition tool won't "automagically" use the existing partitions I created using qtparted. SEVERITY: STUPIDLY high. Completely trashes any XP installation (well, makes the partition table inaccessible to XP, effectively the same thing.) REPRODUCABILITY: Well, I'd really really like NOT to reproduce it, but I can tell in short order if it's messed up. If you know of a tool that will "restore" my partition table to the previous configuration, I'm willing to see if that will let me "fix" the problem if it messes up and run a few tests.... I'm open to suggestion and knowledgable enough to try pretty much anything if you're curious. I just don't happen to have a MBR/ partition table hex editor around (any suggestions? Besides "dd"? :) Thanks for any help or suggestions! Dana Lacoste -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list

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Installing Java Development packages
by R. Jensen 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

I have managed to install a basic workstation configuration of FC4 test1 from DVD and updated the system. (The messages about updating yum and gdm were very helpful). I am now trying to install the Java Development group from the DVD. It's a bit surprising that selecting that group only chooses 5 of 133 packages. I'm not sure what limitations exist in the installer. (Am I correct in it being called anaconda?) It seems like there are further groupings: xalan-j2 junit jdepend xerces-j2 in which the javadoc, manual, etc are separate packages. Is there a way that these second order groupings could be chosen (and maybe have a preference of whether javadoc, manual demo is standard or extra) instead of having to comb through the whole list? Also, there is no apparent ordering of this list of packages. The first item on my list of extra packages (in Java development) is xerces-j2-javadoc-impl and the last is ant-apache-resolver. The 11th from the end is xerces-j2-javadoc-other. It feels like I have to comb through the entire list of 133 items multiple times to make sure I have the java-related items I want. Is this a limitation of the tool, or simply an artifact of being a test1 release? Richard.

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FC4 Test 1 Install Report (Failed! BOO! :)
by Dana Lacoste 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

So after a couple of years of using FC1 I thought I'd take my handy new laptop (thank you work!) and put FC4 on it. Here's a long-ish story of my install adventure. If you don't want to read the story, my fatal error is at the bottom, and I'm definitely open to suggestions on how to prevent or fix it! I don't know if I should enter it in bugzilla though: does anyone know what the specific issue is? I tried searching through buzilla but I couldn't find this issue.... Anyways, on with the story : Hardware is an IBM Thinkpad R50p. P4-M, ATI FireGL. 60G hard drive and 2G RAM. Shouldn't be any problems, now should there? Downloaded 4 CD ISOs, installed without any problems, picked my list of applications and installed away. I had a system with my work-provided Windows XP partition that I had resized with a rescue CD and qtparted and was planning on using half the drive for FC4, half for XP. System installed fine, no problems, rebooted, FC4 loaded, everything seemed to work fine, with only two "warnings" : - One of the system startup scripts failed. I couldn't tell which one though because it gave pages of errors. I'll figure it out some day: it didn't seem important to me :) - It went from disk 1 to 2 to 3 to 4, then BACK to disk 2. Why? Why couldn't it install the disk 2 packages (TeX stuff) the first time it was on disk 2? I could live with those though: EVERYTHING else worked perfectly, no problems, no issues. Graphics and sound and everything. I was very happy. So I decided to reboot into windows to see if I had been booked into any meetings in outlook (I know, use evolution, but I had spent a couple of hours by this point, so I thought I should check out windows. Windows started to load (off my grub option) then almost immediately failed and BSOD'd with an error "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297185 documents this error. Rebooting and trying "safe mode with console" showed that it wasn't able to access files off the disk, somehow, while booting (????) I said "OK" and did some more investigating. I tried the following : - Rerun qtparted to delete linux partitions - Rerun linux install without grub - Run Windows XP "Repair Console" It was this last that showed a hint: it saw the disk "C:" as a single partition of 60GB. Not a 30GB partition for Windows XP. So I thought "hey, grub is putting the partition table in a weird state." I reinstalled XP (problem went away) and reinstalled without grub. Same error, repeated. So I did some more investigating and this is my conclusion : PROBLEM: FC4 Disk Druid re-writes the partition table in a format (somehow) that Windows XP can't understand. SOLUTION: Don't use disk druid? (BUT if I don't do this, then how the hell do I install? The automated partition tool won't "automagically" use the existing partitions I created using qtparted. SEVERITY: STUPIDLY high. Completely trashes any XP installation (well, makes the partition table inaccessible to XP, effectively the same thing.) REPRODUCABILITY: Well, I'd really really like NOT to reproduce it, but I can tell in short order if it's messed up. If you know of a tool that will "restore" my partition table to the previous configuration, I'm willing to see if that will let me "fix" the problem if it messes up and run a few tests.... I'm open to suggestion and knowledgable enough to try pretty much anything if you're curious. I just don't happen to have a MBR/ partition table hex editor around (any suggestions? Besides "dd"? :) Thanks for any help or suggestions! Dana Lacoste

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FC4-test1 installation problem (kernel panic)
by Stefan Pietsch 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

I have a problem installing fedora core 4 test1. It makes no difference if I use "linux noprobe" or "acpi=off" the error message is the same: "Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init" The hardware is a P4 3,2 on a MSI board with the Intel 915P chipset. However I can boot Knoppix 3.6 with the 2.6.7 kernel without problems. Stefan

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java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp_13rh problems
by Jacob Kroon 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Running Fedora Core test 1, with latest rawhide updates. I tried erasing the java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp_13rh RPM, but the post-uninstall script complains: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.98916: line 7: rebuild-security-providers: command not found error: %postun(java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp_13rh.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 127 Seems like "rebuild-security-providers" is provided by the package itself, so it's seems a bit wierd using it, because it has already been removed at this point... Couldnt find anyhing in bugzilla about this, should I put one in ? /Jacob Kroon

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crash on reboot
by Holger Burde 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Hi; I did a FC4 Test-1 install on a machine which worked with FC1-FC3. The machine installed ok rebooted and then crashed (segmentation fault) in modprobe (right after audio is displayed / its allways the same). Rebooting (worm / cold) doesn't change anything. Any idea what to try ? The Hardware is a PIII 500 with a asus board (P4S8X). No fancy stuff inside, matrox g200, 2 80 IDE GB disks, a 2940uw and two nics (intel). No Bios changes or something else in the last month ... -- Holger Burde <hburde(a)t-online.de>

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Dual booting FC3 and FC4T1?
by jery_wang 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Hey all: OK, I'm not exactly sure how to describe the problem I'm having, but I had FC3 installed on my first partition, and I had a swap partition, and some free space. So I installed FC4T1 into the free space, into a partition I created during the installl process. I didn't install grub, but added FC4T1 to the grub.conf from my FC3 install. This doesn't work, and somehow my FC4T1 install is picking up information from my FC3 install, like the user I created in FC3 is available in FC4. I have no idea what I'm doing here, but it seems like maybe there is a problem with the whole partition label scheme? Could anyone point me towards some info on how to dual boot fedora and fedora? -cjlesh -- This is an email sent via the webforum on http://fcp.homelinux.org http://fcp.homelinux.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=49534&topic_id…

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RE: What's Happening With Fedora Core 4 Test 1?
by Fred New 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

On 21. märts 2005. a. 14:35, Robert L Cochran wrote: > I was on a business trip when Fedora Core 4 Test 1 was released. I > disabled my mail delivery from this list during that time. Is there > anything I need to know about installing this release and > getting it to > work? I'm downloading the x86_64 version. Any pitfalls? > > Thanks > I'm not up on the x86_64 news, but I installed x86 yesterday. First, the NFS and hard disk installations don't work because the installer doesn't mount the iso files correctly. After installing, you will probably need to manually install sqlite and update yum. By "manually", I mean you can't use yum; download from the development directory and install using rpm commands. And then there is a problem with gdm that causes syslogd to go crazy and slows down your system a lot. So gdm should be the next thing you update. After that, your system will work a lot better and you can update the rest of your packages - several hundred megabytes worth. (I wish I had updated gdm before updating the rest of my packages; it was slooooow.) Fred

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