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moving to linux
by Ron Watson 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

I just installed fedora 2, the fedora 3 anaconda would crash when it looked at my partitions, put in 2.6.9, then updated last night to 2.6.10.... I have fat32 and ntfs partitions, w98 and w2k installed but oopsie, i told it to put the boot loader on main disk and w2k won't load. tried to mount them and doesn't know about ntfs. How do I add ntfs support to kernel or restore the windoze boot loader to "C:"? -- === Ron Watson === rw(a)compukitty.com === Nisi potestatam dabis, non habebunt.

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proposed installer change...
by Jack Howarth 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Have the Fedora developers ever considered modifying the installer to allow for an installation method similar to the Archive and Install approach used by Apple in MacOS X? http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/archiveinstall.html I believe most Fedora users would find such an installation option very helpful since you could be certain to retain the key configuration settings for Linux and the user accounts while making certain that the major system directories were effectively given a clean install. Jack

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Fedora 2 install over NFS
by Ben Halicki 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hi all, just wondering if anyone has any experience with a FC2 install over NFS? I have tested it on a few machines and for some reason seems to be ridiculously slow. Unusual? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ben.

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Re: browser plugin support under FC3
by Angelo Machils 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Jonathan schreef: > Angelo Machils wrote: > >> > > >>> > Hello! >>> > >>> > I'm running FC3 x86-64 on a AMD 64 3000+ system, but I can't seem to >>> > manage to install browser plugins under either Firefox (version 1.0) >>> > or Mozilla. I do the manual install after the automatic fails. The >>> > install goes okay, but after it I still don't have the plugin. >>> > I'm trying the trail version of CrossOffice (for Quicktime) and >>> > allthough the program standalong works, the plugin doesn't. I have >>> the >>> > plugin in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and copied them also to >>> > /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins. >>> > I have done the /usr/sbin/prelink -ua tip I found on the internet for >>> > FC3, but nothing seems to work. >>> > >>> > What am I missing here. Installing plugins wasn't so difficult on my >>> > FC2 (i386) system. >>> > >>> > Thanks in advance, Angelo >> >> >> >> Firefox for Linux x86_64 has a quirk. You can't install the 32-bit >> versions of some plugins, most notably flash player, maybe others, >> because flsh player is still for 32-bit Linux, I don't exaclty know why >> it will not work on an x86_64 system, I think it is becuase of some of >> the libraries requried by it that may not have all the required >> components the plugin needs (maybe it is due to the intrinsic >> differences in sizes of integers and the like). > > > > > This is not a quirk, but the fundamental way things work. You can run > 32-bit apps on an AMD64 processor with an x86_64 OS, but you cannot > mix 32- and 64-bit in the same program. So 64-bit Firefox cannot use > 32-bit plugins. That is why 32-bit programs need the 32-bit libraries > installed. The processor has two distinct modes for 64- or 32-bit and > code for plugins is too close to the code for the program for the two > to be different architectures. > So, in response to Angelo, if you want to use plugins for which there > are only 32-bit versions right now (like flash and java), uninstall > 64-bit Firefox and get the 32-bit version and your plugins will work > just fine (go to your local mirror and pick up the RPM). Also, make > sure you *soft link* to the plugin. Don't copy it to > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ or it still will not work (by the way, > Firefox has its own directory seperate from Mozilla). If you want, > you can run 32-bit Mozilla and 64-bit Firefox, or vise-versa if you > want both a 32- and 64-bit browser. I don't think you can have both > versions of one installed, though. At least yum didn't like that > idea. 32-bit Firefox runs great for me though, so I think I'll just > stick with it until 64-bit plugins have come around. > > Jonathan > Oeps, had the wrong subject line in the previous reply, sorry about that. Thank you for the reply. There is Firefox 0.9 and Mozilla 1.7.3 (both 64-bits) installed already. How can I remove for example Mozilla (when I do a rpm -qa mozilla I get a whole load full of RPM's) and/or replace it with a 32-bits version? What directory does Firefox use for its plugins?? Thanks in advance, Angelo

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Unmounting Filesystem problems after removing USB drive
by Dan Kovacik 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Dear Sirs- I have two Maxtor USB drives that I use for backups. I swap the drives in rotation. Today I did not umount the drive before pulling the power and yanking the USB cable. The new USB drive can still be mounted and written to ... but ... df is showing the drive to have 0 bits available (100% used), and the best part ... taking down the machine hangs with the last line reading: "Unmounting Filesystem [OK]" which I'm beginning to think is not OK. This problems has persisted through at least 2 power cycles, and the other drive has been locked in a safe until next year. How can I get df to realize that I have a new USB drive? Thanks, Stan

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Re: FC3 Installation Method dialog? install from hard drive
by THUFIR HAWAT 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

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new user needing advice
by Gyles Parry 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

I am new to Linux and have installed Fedora from a dvd on Linux Format on a 20Gb partition as a secondary OS to WinXP Pro while I get used to it. I need to learn a bit about the Linux enviroment, and to be able to fully move across from Microsoft, I need to be able to use the programs that I use primarily on my degree: Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Director, Flash, Microsoft Visual Basic. Is there a way that I can use these programs within Linux and produce cross platform output files. If the answer to the above is yes, are there any really good books that anyone could recommend that give a good overall explanation of Linux in general. Regards, Gyles

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Simple database application...OO.org?
by Arthur Pemberton 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

I was under the impression that OpenOffice now provides a database application. Am I incorrect? Or is this app just not provided with Fedora? Or can I just not find it. Please advise. Thank you.

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Gnome Stock Ticker Applet
by Dan Trainor 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hey, all - I got bored and started playing around, and I found the Gnome Stock Ticker Applet. I can't find a whole lot of documentation on it, and from the looks of it's webpage, I don't think I'd find much there, anyway. My question is, is this supposed to monitor just the different markets, or individual stocks? If just the individual markets, anyone know of an applet that will ticker individual stocks on individual markets? Thanks -dant

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fc3 new install not recognizing gigabit NIC
by Donald Raikes 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

TIA, Don Raikes Hello, I posted a somewhat vague question earlier, so here are teh details. I just purchased a new pc pentium IV 3.0ghz and it came with a 10/100/1000 NIC onboard the motherboard. I installed fc3 kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 on it. Fedora is not recognizing the NIC at all. I did lspci and got the following informatin: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.: Unknown device 4361 (rev 17) I googled for Marvell technology group and discovered that I should be using teh sk98lin driver, so I added teh following to my /etc/modprobe.conf file: alias eth0 sk98lin I then did a rmmod eth0 rmmod sk98lin modprobe eth0 I got no response to any of these commands. Next I tried: ifconfig eth0 and got: eth0: error fetching interface information: device not found I also did a modinfo on sk98lin and got: filename: /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.741_FC3spksmp/kernel/drivers/net/sk98lin/sk98lin.ko author: Mirko Lindner <mlindner(a)syskonnect.de> description: SysKonnect SK-NET Gigabit Ethernet SK-98xx driver license: GPL vermagic: 2.6.10-1.741_FC3spksmp SMP 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4 depends: srcversion: 511B14479B0351A2F2C3D8C I did go to syskonnect.com and download their latest sk98lin driver and tried to install it, but it generates an error while trying to compile: /tmp/Sk98IIMnMPGPmRfmACgkTUacZ/all/sky2.c:1519: warning: implicit declaration of function `pci_dma_sync_single' I'm now stumped. Any suggestions gratefully accepted. _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

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