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mount: special device dev/hda2 does not exist
by THUFIR HAWAT 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

mount -t vfat dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2/ mount: special device dev/hda2 does not exist this is on a dual boot system: hda1 windows 2000 hda2 fat32 hda5 fedora How do I mount the fat32 partition from FC3, please? Thank you, Thufir Hawat -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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How can I see NTFS patition in FC which is in the same disk
by Kumara Jayaweera 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hi, Greeting to List, Can anybody tell me how Ican see/browse my NTFS partitions in FC1 which is in the same disk. I downloaded some source file for linux in my Windows partition that can not see from FC1 Pls help me Mohan

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linking problem in FC3
by Mathias Gibbens 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

When I create a link from /dev/hdd to /dev/dvd for a DVD player, it works fine. But when I restart my computer, /dev/dvd disappears. Why does this happen, and how can I stop it? -Mathias There's More Than One Way To Do It http://www.perl.org http://www.hopechristianacademy.org http://www.wheels-to-work.org

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RPM run problem (trying to install the Mplayer GUI)
by Jared Buck 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hi all, I am having some issues with trying to install the Mplayer gui. On the site where the RPM files are based, I have downloaded the GUI RPM and the skin file, and then run the command: rpm -Uvh mplayer-gui-1.0pre6-1.i386.rpm mplayer-skin- default-1.4-1.noarch.rpm But when I run that command, I get the error message: warning: mplayer-gui-1.0pre6-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 75aa026a error: can't create transaction lock How do I fix this problem? Both of these files need to be RPM'ed together because they depend on each other. Jared

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Interesting problem.
by Kyle Lagonegro (Student-Lagone37) 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Okay so I've downloaded the 4 files I need for FC3, but oddly enough I have them saved on my computer, and can not move them to a CD... Windows (Of course) is showing me an error screen. Anyone had this problem when they were trying to switch or have any clue what I may have done wrong? I downloaded the second set of four files on the first link from the Download section of the Fendora website. They are ISO files, and the error message reads "Windows encountered a problem when tring to copy this file. What do you want Windows to do?" "FC3-x86_64-disc1.iso" "Tyoe: ISO File" "Date Modified: 1/28/2005 10:01 AM" "Size: 637 MB" Then my choices are "Retry" and "Cancel" Click Retry just pops the same message up, over and over again. Thanks for the help... I'm looking like quite the noob already on this site... Hehe

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sendmail and sm-client very slow to start
by Jonathan Berry 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hi all, I did a quick search and didn't see anything like this mentioned yet. I noticed the other day that when my machine booted, sendmail and sm-client took a very long time (about 3 minutes) to start. Tests with a booted system show that it is not just happening on boot. They just take that long to start. I've done some investigation and found that sendmail is hanging with the command: /usr/bin/newaliases and then again at: initlog -q -c '/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h' I'm actually not sure where this second command comes from, as I don't see it explicitly in /etc/init.d/sendmail. sm-client seems to hang at a similar initlog command. I'm running /etc/init.d/sendmail with #!/bin/bash -x to see these commands. The newaliases program itself takes about 1 minute to run. Running strace seems to reveal why; it hangs at the noted position in the strace: ....selection from strace.... rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0x2a96542cd0, [], 0x4000000}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_DGRAM, 0) = 3 fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/dev/log"}, 16) = 0 sendto(3, "<18>Feb 1 21:52:25 sendmail[656"..., 101, 0, NULL, 0) = 101 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [ALRM], [], 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x552ab38360, [], SA_RESTART|0x4000000}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 alarm(60) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ALRM], [ALRM], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ALRM], [], 8) = 0 # the program hangs right after printing "pause(" below pause() = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- alarm(0) = 0 alarm(0) = 0 rt_sigreturn(0) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) stat("/etc/mail/service.switch", 0x7fbfffb2f0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) ....end from strace.... I can post the entire strace somewhere if it might be relevant. It sets an alarm for 60 seconds, which must eventually time out. Anyone know what is going on here? $ rpm -qa sendmail sendmail-8.13.1-2.x86_64 I haven't changed any configuration files, exept for a recent alais to send root's mail to me. The problems happened prior to that change though. I don't know when this started, but I think it must be a recent development. sendmail isn't mentioned in /var/log/yum.log, so maybe from a kernel upgrade? I can try an older kernel and see if that speeds things up if that might be relevant. I'm currently running kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 x86_64. Any ideas? Has anyone else seen this? Jonathan

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core 3 hangs
by solarflow 99 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

I am having a problem booting core 3 on this 1 computer. It boots fine up to the point where it says: Switching to a new root and, it just sits there. Does anyone have any ideas what could cause it to hang there? low ram? I disabled selinux, and everthing else, upgraded the kernel, but it still hangs. Thanks... _________________________________________________________________ Designer Mail isn't just fun to send, it's fun to receive. Use special stationery, fonts and colors. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht… Start enjoying all the benefits of MSN® Premium right now and get the first two months FREE*.

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install core 3 on a laptop that has xp already installed
by Charles Li 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

I was trying to install core 3, but the installer saids not free partition. The laptop has a 80GB harddrive formated by XP, it had around 40GB of free space. What are my options. Thanks. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

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KickStart fedora core 3 minimal exclude @base group
by Matt Higgins 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

I am attempting a minimal fc3 install <500 MB, I was shooting for <200MB. Looking at the @core package group from comps.xml. My calculations show this group to be about 130MB and its description tag reads "<description>Smallest possible installation</description>". However the "Minimal Install" from the installer is about 530MB. With some research it looks like, the minimal install is not just @core but also @base and @dialup. I can easily exclude @dialup by setting the uservisible tag to true and unselecting this package group. When I try the same for @base it does not show up in the package selection list? So my questions are these 1. Is it possible though some ks syntax to exclude a default package group from my kickstart config ? i.e. -@ PackageGroup ? If this were possible I may be able to try -@base and -@dialup leaving only @core. 2. Is it possible to not use any package group at all and simply select the packages I want ? In this case I would just list out all the rpms in the @core group and thats it .. possibly some extras. 3. Is there a way to create your own core package group.. this would sever the same purpose as number 2 but possibly make it more flexible. Note I know you can create your own extra package groups my goal is to modify the existing @core group. Some other things to note.. I would like to have the kickstart totally unattended. I basically have the install unattended with PXE,TFTP,NFS,DHCP but .. I need to tweak the packages. -Matt

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networking howto wanted
by Duncan Lithgow 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hi all, After searching for a bit i decided I didn't know what I was searching for and certainly wasn't finding it. I have one nice computer and one old one. I want to be able to use this nice one from the old one. I don't know what that type of networking is called so i haven't been able to find out how to do it. A couple of links would really help me out here. cheers, Duncan

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