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Boot fails
by Kevin Waterson 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

When I insert Disk one the machine begins to boot from the disk Then I get a message that says isoLinux Boot failed cannot find CDROM Where do I go from here? Kevin -- "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."

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FC4 installation doesn't work
by Juan 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hi. I bought the CDs from Linux central and they tested OK. I have FC3 installed in this box and its installation was a breeze. Now when trying to install/upgrade to FC4 I go through the Anaconda process till the moment it should begin to ask for the language. At this point the screen turns totally white so I can't keep installing. Is there a way to overcome this? Has someone had this kind of problem and solved it? Thanks in advance Juan

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2 hard disks and formatting
by िऩऩाद 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hi I have 2 hdds both 40gb. ( Say D1 and D2) I have 2 pc's (say P1 and P2) P1- new with P4,256mb ram CDR/DVD combo drive etc.and D1 is connected here P2 old IBM branded celeron 500 64 mb RAM 52x CD ROM drive BIOS does not support CD booting and D2 is connected here The P1 pc boots XP and FC3 as XP is used by my brother. Also I have installed 2 more distros on this. As the P2 pc does not have a FDD and CD boot is not possible I was not able to load any distros except ubuntu so it was lying idle for some time I removed D2 from the old PC P2 and connected in the P1 Pc The P1 Pc is detecting it as Primary master and Primary slave. Even FC3 recognises it as hdb. My problems 1.I do not remember what filesystem I have created on D2 although FC3 shows some partitions. I am unable to mount them. 2. Sometimes after booting FC3 or even Slackware when I run dmesg I get some errors of DisK_read io error 3.How do i format D2 and create partitions on the same 4.My D2 is showing as 32gb even though it is 40 gb. Can this be resolved by formatting it new Thanks and regards Ninad Bapat

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RPM, yum, smart, up2date will not load
by Ausband, Jeff 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

>> I installed smart, and done a smart upgrade. It downloaded all of the >> files and installed up to gnome-games and locked up on me. After >> restart I get: >> >> "error: 'rpm' python module is not available" >> >> Now I cannot use Yum, Smart and Up2date. >> >> Any suggestions? >Ouch! I'd try ># rpm -Uvh --force <URL_or_path>/rpm-python-4.4.1-22.i386.rpm >May have to add other rpm-*.rpm packages depending on what got clobbered. >Phil Thanks for the help and sorry about the newbie error. I've tried to force the upgrade of the rpm files but I can't get RPM to even start I get: Rpm: error while loading shared libraries: libbeecrypt.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such files or directory. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks Jeff

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RE: (OT) Bit Torrent usage ...
by Erik Hemdal 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

> Can anyone explain, in ordinary language, what possible > advantage it would give me over, say, wget? > > Mike I'll try to help. If you use a conventional tool, even wget, you are making one connection to a remote server. If that server goes down, or slows down, your transfer slows down too. Regardless of the bandwidth you have available, you are limited by the bandwidth of the remote server (or of the slowest link between you). Again, if the transfer is interrupted, you lose. You must start again. More than once, I've lost a complete Red Hat download because, after downloading 80% of (say) a CD image, the connection failed somewhere and all was lost. BitTorrent establishes multiple connections between your computer and others which have the files you want. The files are transferred in multiple pieces. If a single connection fails, you only lose a portion of the data you are transferring; the previously downloaded parts are still valid. Since you have multiple connections, you are less likely to overwhelm any one of them, and more likely to use all of the bandwidth you have to receive data. BitTorrent manages the incoming pieces and makes sure they are intact and correct. In payment for a more-efficient download, your system also turns into a server for the length of time you are running BitTorrent. So others are downloading from you at the same time you are downloading from others. Erik

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Realtime traceroute
by Kenneth Porter 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Does anyone know of a realtime traceroute that can be used to show anomalous routers? I'm having an issue while gaming in which I'll see my ping to an unrelated server suddenly and momentarily spike, which tells me that some router close to me is having a short-term issue. But because it's not a continuous problem, I can't tell where it's happening. Ideally I'd like a set of strip chart graphs showing ping times to all routers between me and a selected server, effectively a realtime traceroute that I can check when my ping shoots up. (I'm gaming on a Windows box while leaving a ping running to a different server on my Fedora box. When I get dropped from the game server by "connection issues", I use my KVM to switch to my Fedora screen and see a momentary jump from about 100 ms to 1000 ms in ping.) BTW, my residential router is a Linksys WRT54G running Sveasoft Satori Linux with QoS enabled. I'm not inclined to think that it's the problem. But there might be a spike in bandwidth elsewhere in my LAN that could be an issue. A measurement of packet loss at the Linksys could be useful, but I don't know how to look for that and am open to suggestions.

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(OT) Bit Torrent usage ...
by Mike McCarty 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

I see that the Red Hat site suggests Bit Torrent. I went to the website, and I don't see where it would help. And I don't understand the bit about "if you don't allow Bit Torrent to upload from your machine, you won't get improved download rates." They specifically state that it is a means for publishing things from one's own machine to the world. Can anyone explain, in ordinary language, what possible advantage it would give me over, say, wget? Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made from 100% recycled bits. I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you. I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that!

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OT: redhat worldwide: our development stopped before 1989
by Peter Zubaj 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/red-hat-europe-map

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usb problems after recent updates
by Chris Jones 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hi, I'm running FC4 on a laptop been experiencing usb problems since the last round of FC4 updates. Basically the symptoms are that if I plug in my usb mouse, which has worked find up to this point, the system goes into a cycle of 100% cpu usage for a few seconds, which then stops for a period and then restarts. The mouse does not work (It might for a few seconds but then stops). Thankfully the touchpad works OK... Does anyone else have this problem ? Any suggestions what to do would be greatfully received as this is rather annoying. -- +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dr Chris R Jones work : +44 (0)1223 337324 | | HEP Group (rm 882) fax : +44 (0)1223 353920 | | Cavendish Laboratory, home : +44 (0)1223 510711 | | Madingley Road, mobile : +44 (0)7900 564763 | | Cambridge, CB3 0HE email : jonesc(a)hep.phy.cam.ac.uk | +--------------------------------------------------------------+

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User has computer locked
by Stanley Davis 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Is there a way to unlock/logoff a user that has the computer locked without knowing their password? The computer in question is a stand alone computer. I know in the Windows environment that any administrator should unlock and signoff the current user. Is the same possible under Fedora Core 4? Also is there a way to limit when a user can be logged into a computer, for example user1 can only logon between 9AM and 3PM. --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page

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