smb-shares
by Sturla Holm Hansen
I'm having probles when using nautilus to browse smb-shares, either on
another linux-box or on a windoze-box, it takes ages to connect, then
I'm asked for a password and then it takes ages again.
Finally I get a list of the shares on the box, when double-clicking one
of them it takes ages AGAIN, but when I'm finally inside a share things
seem to be working fine....
Any ideas?
Sturla
19 years, 10 months
Problem mounting FAT32 hard drive
by AL
Any thoughts on this? I have a second hard drive located at HDD and it is a
single partition 80GB drive. When I try to mount it as root I get the error
"mount: fs type fat not supported by kernel." I currently have fat support
loaded as a module. It shows up when I do lsmod, but its not in the kernel.
At least it doesn't show up when I do a "cat /proc/filesystems."
Am I missing something?
-AL
20 years
Problem mounting FAT32 hard drive
by AL
Any thoughts on this? I have a second hard drive located at HDD and it is a
single partition 80GB drive. When I try to mount it as root I get the error
"mount: fs type fat not supported by kernel." I currently have fat support
loaded as a module. It shows up when I do lsmod, but its not in the kernel.
At least it doesn't show up when I do a "cat /proc/filesystems."
Am I missing something?
-AL
20 years
Fedora Project: Announcing New Direction
by Michael K. Johnson
Red Hat and Fedora Linux are pleased to announce an alignment of their
mutually complementary core proficiencies leveraging them synergistically
in the creation of the Fedora Project, a paradigm shift for Linux
technology development and rolling early deployment models.
We are <...> *thud*
One two ... one two ... testing, is this thing on?
Hello, this is, um, the Engineers speaking. We are still really excited
about the project, but this time we have more than just dates. We hope
fedora.redhat.com will answer lots of your questions, and are sure it
will pose a few new ones.
Why Fedora?
Red Hat has a lot of experience in building solid dependable core
distributions while the Fedora Linux Project has lots of experience in
building effective infrastructure and policy to create many high quality
add on packages. Both groups decided to merge the two projects and build
outward using our shared experience, and to use the name "Fedora Project".
We don't pretend the merge will be smooth or immediate, but we firmly
believe that working with the Fedora Linux Project will get external
projects and add-ons up and running better and faster than we could on
our own and we are proud to be working with them.
The Fedora Project is something special. It enables Red Hat and the
community to work together to provide the community with rapid rolling
releases and to get new technology into the hands of developers.
With the solid establishment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat
now has a platform for predictable change and high quality support
for customers, and for our ISV and IHV partners. Fedora is about
the community, about cool new technologies, and extending existing
Red Hat tools in a collaborative community. Our new up2date, for
example, supports YUM and apt-get repositories.
Fellow Fedorans, a new dawn is upon us, let us begin.
Please note:
The http://rhl.redhat.com/ web site has been renamed
http://fedora.redhat.com/ and the mailing lists have all been renamed:
rhl-list(a)redhat.com -> fedora-list(a)redhat.com
rhl-beta-list(a)redhat.com -> fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com
rhl-devel-list(a)redhat.com -> fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com
rhl-docs-list(a)redhat.com -> fedora-docs-list(a)redhat.com
Your subscriptions have been preserved, moved over to the new names
for the lists.
michaelkjohnson
"He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book."
Linux Application Development -- Ben Franklin
http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad/
20 years
Severn and Gnome 2.4
by Kreg Steppe
I have Severn basically updated with Rawhide.
Gnome 2.4 is great, however has anyone else had a problem with windows
being sticky to the mouse?
I mean I click on a title bar to change focus, and I move the mouse the
the window is in a move state following my mouse around until I click
once again then it drops.
Any Guesses?
Thanks
Kreg
20 years, 1 month
Fedora and the System Administrator
by Erik Williamson
Hi All,
I've looked around, read most of the archives on this list & have seen
the topic sort of mentioned, but not directly... so here goes:
I've got about 120 machines (servers & workstations) running 7.3 and 9.
I was going to roll RH9 out department-wide, but then realized that
it's end-of-life is scheduled for April 2004, which is smack-dab in the
middle of the semester.
I've recently been asked/told to limit OS releases to every 2 years. I
feel that this is fair.
I've looked into RHEL; my "higher-ups" are VERY squeamish about paying
for anything. I'm contemplating switching to another distribution with
longer life-cycles, but I'm very comfy with RHL, and don't want to switch.
(finally) My question is this: What is the anticipated life-cycle for
Fedora releases? I know that there will be core updates every four
months - by 'core' I gather this means kernel, gcc, glib, X, etc... but
how long will a core release last - is it based on popularity/stability?
I've seen lots of talk about other companies that provide support for
end-of-life RH releases, and can assume that it will continue with
Fedora, but for a university with a $50M+ defeceit this year, paying is
not an option.
Any thoughts/views would be greatly appreciated -
Cheers & Thanks!
Erik.
--
e r i k w i l l i a m s o n erik(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca
system admin . department of computer science . university of calgary
20 years, 2 months
NVidia on Severn2 -> It works.
by Rodrigo Del C. Andrade
First thing that happened when I installed the beta was the lack of X,
'cause I have a GeForce4, so if ppl are goin to install and use a NVidia
models GeForce or Tnt (I cant garantee for quadro or others), this info
will come in handy.
Here is how I installed NVidia drivers on Severn release 2:
Download the latest driver:
wget
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-4496/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0...
If you try to run this as is, you will only got an error when it tries
to recompile a module for our kernel acusing diferent compilers, so lets
do this at comand line:
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run --add-this-kernel
Gotta thanks the NVidia programmers for that one.
After it all done you can run the new installer:
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2-custom.run
and everything should be fine. Update /etc/X11/XFree86Config you it
wasnt already prepared for their drivers and have fun with your bug
hunting with the possibility to watch dvds on tv-out during breaks :)
Vantroy
ps: Is this the definitive logo for Fedora Core? It is kinda ... basic...
ps2: I upgraded from Shrike and couldnt select pckages. Thats bad :(
20 years, 2 months
Re: Bugzilla filing
by Jef Spaleta
Charles Curley wrote:
> * Do I file on Red Hat's bugzilla or fedora's?
As of now last i heard
severn is at redhat's bugzilla. Fedora.us's bugzilla is just for
add on packages still being maintained separately by the the people
working at Fedora.us. The structural support for the move from RHL to
Fedora isn't all there yet.
>* Red Hat's Bugzilla "version" field has no entry for severn. Which
> version do I file it under?
Product:
Red Hat Linux Beta
Version:
beta1 if its severn beta 1
>* Should I use "openoffice" or "installation" in the component field?
that's a bit tougher...you might want to search through previous bug reports
of a similar nature and see where they are placed. Even if its not
clear, its best to report it and if the developer tells you its in the
wrong place, you can refile it where they suggest.
I would also suggest that any further questions about the test/beta
releases that you are going to have should be directed to
fedora-test-list mailing list. Not that this question is off topic here,
and the announcement this week was more than enough information to
dominate the discussion on every possible list like a tidal wave. But
now that the mental flood waters are receeding and the next test/beta
iso set is coming out...it would be good to have fedora-test-list become
focused again on the beta/test discussion..leaving some of the more
general questions about the non technical beta/test issues of Fedora for
this list here.
-jef
20 years, 2 months
Re: Fedora and the System Administrator
by Jef Spaleta
Erik Williamson wrote:
> I've recently been asked/told to limit OS releases to every 2 years.
> I feel that this is fair.
You might want to sit down and make sure there are no breakable objects
nearby.
http://fedora.redhat.com/about/rhel.html
Fedora Project:
Update Lifetime 2-3 months after next release
Now...before you go into a hulkish rage. Look at
http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/terminology.html
Fedora Legacy definition.
If you are interested in seeing Fedora Legacy support for your boxen to
the tune of the 2 year span you are interested in....you need to be part
of the discussion and part of the community legacy effort sooner rather
than later.
Other options of course is to talk to Red Hat sales about working out
some licensing options. I'm pretty sure Red Hat a rep has been on the
fedora mailing list saying they are willing to talk about .edu about
discussing things.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-September/msg00133.html
-jef
20 years, 2 months
Is the Print Support and OpenOffice Yes/No really honored
by Matheesha
Hi,
I am asking this as I've just seen that some are experiencing issues
with disabling the firewall. While I was installing Fedora Test 2 I
chose not to install printing support and yet cups is installed and is
active. Both Cups and the Cups libraries are installed. I am a newbie to
Linux so I am not sure if Cups was installed as it may be required for
some other reason. The same goes for Open Office. I chose not to install
any Office/Productivity apps and yet Open Office libraries are
installed.
Is this expected behaviour?
Thanks
M@
20 years, 2 months
