Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] btrfs for Fedora 12 and 13 LiveCD/DVD ?
by dexter
On 25 April 2010 19:47, Alan Pevec <apevec gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Valent Turkovic
> <valent.turkovic gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> how to make Fedora 12 and Fedora 13 LiveCD/DVD that is btrfs formated
>> and not ext4?
>> What options need to be enables in kicstart file so that
>> livecd-creator makes btrfs iso images?
>
> Didn't try it, but should be enough to change fstype in fedora-live-base.ks
>> part / --size 3072 --fstype ext4
>
> Alan
CrossPosting:
A quick scan reveals adjusting fstype will not be enuff, btrfs uses
different userspace tools from ext[34] "btrfs-progs", so livecd-tools
will need a patch.
...dex
13 years, 7 months
Heads up re: Users of RalinkTech Chipsets
by JD
Hi All,
Kernel 2.6.35 now supports
RT2860
RT2870
RT2872
RT2883
RT3070
RT3071
RT3090
RT3390
RT3572
The device will be wlan0 instead of ra0
I just downloaded
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.35.3.tar.bz2
and built it and booted it.
It found my Ralink 2860 based mini-pci and
all is super-well.
You will need to modify your /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant
and replace ra0 with wlan0
Once you do that, you will need to System->Administration->Network
and activate wlan0, and save it.
That should create the ifcfg-wlan0 file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
and should also create hard links to it in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices
and in /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default
(unless of course these links are no longer needed).
If you had set up your wifi with a fixed ip address, you will need to
set that up too.
Once done, then
sudo ifup wlan0
and you are up and running.
I have so far discovered that these rtx00 drivers are driving
the card much much better than ralinktech's own driver.
For example, the signal to noise ratio is increased by a factor of 10!!!
No kidding!!! Factor of 10!
i.e. signal strength went from around 5 or 6 to 60!!!
Enjoy.
13 years, 7 months
gmail Video chat for fedora?
by L
Hi,
Google recently announced the availability of GMail Video Chat for
linux!, Unfortunately the sad part is that the released only for
Ubuntu and Debian based systems!
So the thing is we have a .deb. Is there a way we could get the .rpm
for installation? anyone have this convert to rpm?
thanks
Y
--
Linux Toys
http://linuxishbell.wordpress.com/
13 years, 7 months
hibernate, then start Windows [SOLVED]
by Greg Woods
This is in regard to the issue that, when Linux is hibernated, upon
reboot the thaw starts immediately and the grub menu is not presented.
I am now absolutely convinced this is not a BIOS issue, it is a kernel
or boot loader issue.
I worked around it by adding a level of indirection to the boot process.
To do this requires that you have at least one Linux partition that is
not / or /boot.
The basic idea is that Linux is booted with a chainloader, same as
Windows. So the main grub menu gives you a choice of Linux or Windows,
and both are implemented with "chainloader +1" stanzas. It works, but I
don't recommend trying this unless you are fairly familiar with how the
boot loader works, and are comfortable reinstalling the boot loader from
a rescue CD/DVD if something goes wrong.
The high-level instructions go like this:
1) In your extra Linux partition, create "boot" and "boot/grub"
directories.
2) Copy the contents of /boot/grub to this new grub directory.
3) Edit the boot/grub/grub.conf file in this new directory so that
Windows and Linux are presented as "chainloader +1" stanzas.
4) Install grub in the master boot record, pointing to this partition
5) Install grub in the first sector of your root partition, with the
usual kernel choices.
When this is done, at boot time you get a choice of Linux or Windows. If
you select Linux, the second boot loader comes up with the usual choice
of kernels. If Linux is hibernated, you can then boot and run Windows
just fine (my Windows install doesn't have a hibernate option so I
wasn't able to test hibernating Windows in this scenario). If you boot
again and select Linux, instead of getting the choice of kernels, it
immediately resumes the hibernated image. This is how I *want* it to
work, so I have left it this way.
Suppose you have this:
/dev/sda1 Windows
/dev/sda2 Linux root
/dev/sda3 Linux /local
Then /boot/grub gets copied to /local/boot/grub, then
edit /local/boot/grub/grub.conf so that you have something like this:
title Linux
root (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
title Windows
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
Then run:
# grub
[...]
grub> root (hd0,2)
grub> setup (hd0)
This loads the master boot record that points to /dev/sda2, the
chainloader configuration.
Now edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and remove the Windows stanza (you don't
need it here any more). Then run:
# grub
[...]
grub> root (hd0,1)
grub> setup (hd0,1)
This loads grub into the first sector of the Linux root partition,
pointing at that partition and presenting the usual choice of kernels.
This has worked great for me. I can now hibernate Linux, boot into
Windows, and later resume from the hibernated Linux image.
--Greg
13 years, 7 months
Missing symbol in libatk-bridge.so
by Paul F. Johnson
Hi,
Quite a few apps on my machine are refusing to work as there is a symbol
missing in libatk-bridge : g_module_make_resident
What do I need to install to resolve this problem?
TTFN
Paul
13 years, 7 months
Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12
by Quan Qiu
I installed fedora 12 (English version) on a Dell R300 server, as well as
SVN and Trac, after I imported files into Linux, all files named in Chinese
became black squares or question marks when listing them, and there were
additional strings "invalid encoding" attached after each filename. In
addition, Chinese font in Firefox looks not pretty, some are big, and some
are small.
I installed cjkuni-fonts, cjkunifonts-uming fonts, and also setup locale to
zh_CN.UTF8, but it didn't get me any luck.
Could anyone help me with this? I appreciate any response.
13 years, 7 months
TVTime loses focus after installing F13
by Bill Case
Hi;
I have a Hauppauge WinTv-HVR 1800 tuner with an analog Cable TV (NTSC -
Canada). In F12 I received a near perfect video picture from my cable
TV. In F13, the picture is black and white with various degrees of
interference lines depending on the tv channel.
I have played with (used) TVTime quite a bit in the last 3 or 4 years so
I am familiar with all the menu settings and the configuration file. No
matter what I try, I can't get the proper reception back.
I still have no analog sound for this tuner, but I see that as a
separate Alsa problem.
Any suggestions as to what I might be overlooking or might have
mis-configured with the video?
--
Regards Bill
Fedora 13, Gnome 2.30.2
Evo.2.20.2, Emacs 23.2.1
13 years, 7 months
SELinux
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
With fedora 13, when I use Math:GSL, I get an error message:
Can't load '/usr/local/lib/perl5/auto/Math/GSL/Errno/Errno.so' for module
Math::GSL::Errno: /usr/local/lib/perl5/auto/Math/GSL/Errno/Errno.so:
cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied at
/usr/lib/perl5/DynaLoader.pm line 200.
if I do not switch SELinux to permissive !!
IE I cannot use enforcing
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13 years, 7 months
Aren't upgrades demanding too much restarts?
by Andre Costa
Latest F13 upgrades include two packages that "require" a restart:
evolution-data-server and GtkHTML.
... ?! Is it really necessary to *reboot* because two desktop
components have been upgraded? Shouldn't a logout/login be enough?
This sounds like overkill, specially if you're the only one using the
computer (i.e. there are no other users using those libraries/services
besides you -- *if* you're using them). I don't even use Evolution!
Isn't there any more clever way of determining if a reboot is really
necessary? Or maybe at least the message should be less "demanding", I
don't know... it really seems unneeded.
I used to be proud of Linux only needing a reboot when the kernel (or
some key component) was upgraded. This is sadly feeling like "those
good old times" :-(
Regards,
Andre
13 years, 7 months
