Rescue HD setup procedure
by Mitsuho Iizuka
Hi
Is it valid way to have 'RESCUE HD' in /dev/hda2 as follows ?
I have FC3 in /dev/hdb1, and XP in /dev/hda1. Just grub booting
from vmlinuz and initrd.img in rescuecd.iso, can rescue linux
get to rescuecd.img ? May I confirm this before FC3 crush ?
mkdir /mnt/src
mkdir /mnt/res
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/src
cp /foo/bar/isolinux/FC3-i386-rescuecd.iso /mnt/src
mount -o loop /mnt/src/FC3-i386-rescuecd.iso /mnt/res
mkdir /mnt/res/boot
mkdir /boot/installer
cp /mnt/res/isolinux/vmlinuz /boot/installer/vmlinuz-resc
cp /mnt/res/isolinux/initrd.img /boot/installer/initrd-resc.img
:
editting grub menu.lst
and reboot....
// M.Iizuka
19 years, 5 months
Re: Recent Fedora Core kernels (plus my SPEC file for 2.6.8-1.541 with Athlon support)
by Dave Jones
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:36:23AM -0500, William M. Quarles wrote:
> Dave Jones wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > > C. If it doesn't hurt and it would probably help, I don't see what's
> > the > matter with making an Athlon-optimized kernel.
> >
> >A number of reasons.
> >- It's one more column in the matrix of supported kernels to worry about.
> > This may seem insignificant, but it takes quite a while to push
> > a kernel package through the buildsystem given how many variants
> > it spits out. On a busy day (like for eg, just before release), it
> > can take the better part of a day to get packages built.
> >- The gain just isn't worth it over the 2.4 kernels.
> > Now that the runtime optimisations get performed in 2.6, theres only
> > one thing thats missing that would be in an Athlon optimised kernel,
> > and thats the optimised copy_page/clear_page, which are really only
> > a win when a lot of data is being copied back/forth between the kernel,
> > and even then, only under certain usage patterns. I'll be surprised
> > if this shows up on any real-world application.
> <snip>
>
> Apparently the man who started this thread found his real-world
> applications.
I don't see any numbers. There's also nothing specifically
indicating that building for Athlon is why he saw a performance
win. If something else also got disabled (even inadvertantly),
that could also factor into it.
Dave
19 years, 5 months
Booting directly into X problems
by Sasa Stupar
Hi!
My system: I have two HDD on which are installed separetly winxp and FC2
with their own MBR's. MotherBoard is ASUS P4BGV-MX-EAYZ with built in
VGA i845.
I have installed FC2 and have problems to boot directly into X. I get
blank screen. However, if I first boot into winxp and then reboot into
linux X works.
This problem is only happening if machine was switched off for a couple
of minutes and more.
Another thing: if I boot to FC2 and choose "Interactive mode" then I can
also boot into X without any problems.
Is there anything to do (beside getting a new VGA card) to fix this
because I am about to remove winxp and I do not want to boot with
Interactive mode every day?
Regards,
Sasa
19 years, 5 months
Evolution 2.0 "Just Doesn't Work"; will not send
by Erik Hemdal
Situation: Fresh install of FC3, plus all updates on Dell Latitude D600
(Pentium 4, Intel 855 chipset)
Problem: Evolution refuses to send email; receives messages just fine.
Debugging steps:
Confirmed "server setup" with ISP.
No errors in any logs at all.
Confirmed that this setup works on an FC1 machine (works OK).
Verified that this hardware sends correctly (same laptop booted into
Windows XP -- no problem)
Attempted to adjust all possible authentication methods in Evolution (no
success).
Disabled iptables and SELinux controls - no joy.
Finally installed Thunderbird Mail: works perfectly.
I installed from healthy CD's and had no errors during installation.
Evolution 1.4 is just fine as well. I didn't find anything in the FC3
release notes, but I might have missed something.
I admit it got pretty late last night, so I probably missed something.
Anyone seen an issue like this? I've never seen a client simply refuse
to work without any errors/log messages/etc.
Erik
19 years, 5 months
is it good to be uptodate before you upgrade to fc3
by david smethurst
hi all
is it a good thing to do prior to upgrading from fc2 to fc3 to be
uptodate with all the latest updates?
or just let it do it all from the cdś?
thanks for your opinions
thanks
david
19 years, 5 months
Enlightenment FC3
by Mark Farmer
Has anyone got Enlightenment running on FC3 yet?
If so, what rpm(s) did you use & where did you get them? Looking on pbone only finds FC1 & FC2.
--
Mark Farmer
Linux System Administrator
19 years, 5 months
Fedora and Moneydance install Question
by Terry R. Grier
* These are the instructions on how to install moneydance. there are no
YUMs for it.
I need/want this program to work with Fedora 3.
I have followed this to the letter. and the files are in the folder.
But at the comand line when I type moneydance I get 'bash: moneydance:
command not found'
*
*I am just wasting my time here? .... or am I missing a step?
or ... are these instructions... no good? ....
*
*the program runs in Java. I followed the instruction on fedorafaq.org
and installed java first.*
*www.moneydance.com
*
*If this will not work... what program to people use for personal
finances? I truly enjoyed using this program.
T
*
Once you have downloaded the appropriate package, untar the file into
a directory on your system like so:
%> gunzip moneydance_*.tar.gz
%> tar xf moneydance_*.tar -C /usr/local
This will create the /usr/local/moneydance directory. We use /usr/local
as an example, Moneydance can be installed in any location.
** /Please skip this step if you are not installing the "Other" package.
/ If you downloaded the "Other" package above, you will need to create a
symbolic link named "jre" in the /usr/local/moneydance directory that
points to the location of Java on your system. For example, if your java
executable is at /usr/j2se/bin/java then you should create the link like
so:
%> cd /usr/local/moneydance
%> ln -s /usr/j2se jre
** You can now run Moneydance by executing the 'moneydance' script in
the new directory.
%> /usr/local/moneydance/moneydance
To make starting Moneydance from the command line easier, you can create
a symbolic link in your path that points to the moneydance startup script:
%> cd /usr/local/bin
%> ln -s /usr/local/moneydance/moneydance moneydance
For your convenience we have provided a moneydance.xpm file that can be
used with a desktop icon for launching Moneydance from a GUI such as KDE
or GNOME.
19 years, 5 months
AirPort Printing
by Lotsa Cabo
Any idea how to get a FC3 (connected via a wireless NIC) to print to a
printer hanging off of an AirPort Extreme's USB port? I ain't finding
nothin' worth while! =(
Thanx,
Ryan
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19 years, 5 months
Re: xcdroast and 2.6.x kernel in user mode
by Davor Herga
I am answering to myself and to all of you, who might be interesting in
> the "burning cd's as normal user" from kernel 2.6.8 and on.
>
> IT SIMPLY DOENS'T WORK. And it is a security issue in kernel.
>> As for now, with the kernel 2.6.8 and up, you can burn CD's with K3B or
>> XCDRoast only as root.
>
>
>> Davor.
>
>
You want to be funny, don't you? Just that nobody laughs. You are
telling no news and even about an obsolete issue. See my reply to your
mail. Maybe you ignore replies.
Alexander
Sorry, missed your earlier reply.
The problem is, that I have xcdroast-0.98alpha15 compiled and installed and cdrtools-2.01 also compiled and installed.
As hard as I try (Non-root mode is activated) I can't burn CD's in user mode, but it works perfectly well when loged in as root.
I have FC3 with 2.6.9-1.667 kernel and it simply doesn't work.
All I can think off, though I doubt it would help, is to install xcdroast and cdda2wav from the Fedora Core 3 RPMS.
Is this link - http://k3b.plainblack.com/index.pl/news2 - also obsolete?
P.S.
I do have a better sence for humour, really ...
19 years, 5 months
