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Re: USB Thumb Drive Installation
by Javier Perez 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

be careful. Depending on how you started Fedora, drive assignment can vary very much. lookup the file /var/log/dmesg (as root), or even better, execute: grep '/dev' </var/log/dmesg This should show all the devices mounted, you should be able to pickup from the list what device number was assigned to your USB pendrive. JP On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Stephen P Molnar <s.molnar(a)sbcglobal.net>wrote: > I am considering returning to Red Hat, actually Fedora, after quite a few > years of using SuSE/OpenSUSE. However, before taking down my main platform, > which my wife uses for surfing, I’d like to test Fedora 14 on my laptop. > This raises another consideration in that I use the laptop for consulting > and don’t want to endanger the Win 7 OS. > > > > What I have done is install (transfer(?)) Fedora 14 to a 8GB SanDisk USB > Thumb Drive. At this point I can boot the laptop from the Thumb Drive and > start the Fedora installer. I want to install Fedora on the Thumb Drive > without modifying the laptop MS Win 7 boot process. > > > > Now, finally my questions. The installer gives me the option of installing > Fedora on the following partitions: > > > > /dev/sda1 > > /dev/sda2 > > /dev/sdb1 > > /dev/sdc1 > > > > Am I correct in assuming the Thumb Drive is /dev/sdc1? Will the Win 7 > boot loader be modified by the Fedora installation? > > > > I have attempted searching the list archive without success. Any > assistance will be much appreciated. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a > fuzzy set > > Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic > and multivariate > > http://www.FoundationForChemistry.com > > > > -- > users mailing list > users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > -- ------------------------------ /\_/\ |O O| pepebuho(a)gmail.com ~~~~ Javier Perez ~~~~ While the night runs ~~~~ toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch.

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A former ubuntu user trying Fedora15
by Doron Bar Zeev 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/04/from-ubuntu-to-fedora-landing-on-foreign…

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checkinstall
by JD 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

Where can I get the most recent rpm for this? Fedora dropped it quiet a long time ago??

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Please Help Me Installing Fedora 14
by Shin Seung Won 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

Hello. I'm a student in Korea, and I'm in sixth grade. I'm not good at English, so please understand :) I have a DVD which Fedora 14 Installing ISO is burned, and I have a computer. CPU : Intel i5-2300 Motherboard : ASUS P8H67-M LX HDD : SATA3(6Gbps) 500GB VGA : NVIDIA GT240 And when I finish setting BIOS Booting Priority(Thanks to GUI BIOS), I put the DVD. 'Welcome to Fedora 14!' On the screen, and I selected the first menu(Install or upgrade existing ~~). I have installed Fedora 14 in my old computer, so I have seen the GUI Installing screen, but first, there was black background and white characters, saying something like 'limiting link to 1.5 ~~', 'failed to resume link', 'link is hard to ~, please be patient'(I can't memorize it). After some minutes, it said 'Greetings.' and something. Now, the screen turned blue, and there was a screen, but not GUI, and not CUI. I could only use keyboard, and when I selected the language, it asked to select one from /dev/sda1,/dev/sda2,/dev/sda5. I selected 'back', and I selected 'Local CD/DVD' because the installation image was there. But it said 'unable to find the ~~'. And I tried to find the driver of my DVD multi drive(I tried to find 'TSSTCorp' or 'SAMSUNG') , but there wasn't. How can I do? Someone said me to 'linux dd' in 'boot>' and something, but I don't have the driver CD. It seems that I have to install the SATA driver(for DVD drive), but the motherboard CD seems that it only supports Windows. Please help me!

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Anyone using a USB wireless dongle as access point on fedora?
by Tom Horsley 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

Everything I read tells me this may be possible with hostapd (which I see is in the repos), but that you have to have a wireless dongle that supports it, so I'm hoping some folks have actual examples of working product model numbers :-). (I'm hoping I can provide a wi-fi connection for my phone from my desktop at work).

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Can't dual-boot Fedora 14 on new MacBook Pro?
by Charles Ulrich 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

Hello, I'm trying to install Fedora (dual-boot) on a brand-new MacBook Pro. The live/installer CD runs flawlessly on the machine, which was a nice surprise. But after the install is completed, I cannot actually boot into Fedora. Here is what I did: 1. OS X by default ships with an EFI partition (/dev/sda1) and an HFS+ partition (/dev/sda2). I used Boot Camp in OS X to resize the existing OS X partition and reboot to the live CD. 2. Once the Fedora live CD is booted, I used the disk utility to delete the "Windows" partition (/dev/sda3) that Boot Camp created. This leaves the original EFI and OS X partitions plus a chunk (40G) of empty space at the end of the disk. 3. Run the Fedora Installer, telling it to automatically partition and install using the free space on the disk. It creates a 500M boot partition (/dev/sda3) and an LVM partition (/dev/sda4). 4. When the installer gets to the part about the boot loader, I go with the defaults, which is to install GRUB to the boot sector of the Fedora boot partition (/dev/sda3). After the install is complete, I would expect to be able to hold down the Mac's "Option" key to choose which OS to boot since /dev/sda3 has a boot sector, but only the OS X disk shows up. (What does Boot Camp do, then, besides resizing the disk?) I read somewhere that a boot loader called rEFIt would help, so I tried that. I installed it using the instructions on the project's website and rebooted. An option to boot Linux shows up in the rEFIt boot screen, but when selecting it, I get a black screen with an error message along the lines of "no operating system found." Further research suggested that rEFIt had to "resync" in order to find GRUB, even though I installed rEFIt after Fedora. I did that by going into the rEFIt "menu" and answering in the affirmative when it told me that a resync was necessary. Now, when I select Linux in the rEFIt boot menu, it only shows a gray-out penguin and nothing else happens. The lack of output makes the problem difficult to troubleshoot exactly what's going wrong. Maybe if I knew more about EFI, I could play around in the EFI shell provided by rEFIt. Anyway, has anyone here had success dual-booting Fedora 14 on a newer Mac, and if so, what procedure did you use? I'd like to install Fedora to the whole disk, but I'm reluctant to try that until I can get a dual-boot scenario to work. I you could, please CC my email address in any responses since I'm subscribed to the digest version of the list. Thanks for your time. Charles -- http://bityard.net

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Preupgrade questions
by Beartooth 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

Iirc, preupgrade (which I've been pleased with in the past) won't do anything, or at any rate won't install F15, until that is officially released; right? Also, I have a couple of odd minor issues on different PCs, relating to metacity a/o the monitor (HP w2207h) a/o the KVM switch between my PCs and the peripherals. Even with F15 abandoning metacity, and possibly also whatever is causing the other minor issues, my guess is that I'll be better off doing all fresh installs this time, except perhaps on one brand new PC.. In fact, I'm already in process of copying all my data to an external USB hard drive. I'm copying my home directory, /etc, /usr/bin (though not /bin), / usr/sbin, and /usr/share from each PC. Are those the ones I need? (Are any of them superfluous?) Fwiw, I''ve always done a lot of minor tweaking after each fresh install, getting two panels and an assortment of launchers into the places where my fingers can call them without my conscious attention; I'd like to skip that, if F15 and Gnome3 will let me. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

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[Errno 5] Input/output error
by Leon Legorreta 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

Hello, I hope you can help me, I have a problem to update my fedora 14, since wanting to update with "yum" sends me the following error: ---> Package xscreensaver-extras-base.i686 1:5.12-14. BC14 set to be updated ---> Package xscreensaver-gl-base.i686 1:5.12-14. BC14 set to be updated ---> Package xscreensaver-gl-extras.i686 1:5.12-14. BC14 set to be updated [Errno 5] Input / output error Verify the spaces of my LV's and well: [root@leon /]# df -h S.ficheros Size Used Avail Use% Montado en /dev/mapper/vg_leon-LogVol00 9,7G 475M 8,7G 6% / tmpfs 1003M 524K 1002M 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 485M 65M 395M 15% /boot /dev/mapper/vg_leon-LogVol01 9,7G 4,2G 5,0G 46% /home /dev/mapper/vg_leon-LogVol05 50G 31G 17G 65% /opt /dev/mapper/vg_leon-LogVol02 5,4G 72M 5,1G 2% /tmp /dev/mapper/vg_leon-LogVol03 13G 6,6G 4,9G 58% /usr /dev/mapper/vg_leon-LogVol04 3,9G 388M 3,3G 11% /var /dev/sdb1 466G 289G 178G 62% /media/SAMSUNG So I do not know what happens do not know why send me error "No space left on the disk" and "Disk Error: [Errno 5] Input / output error. " Appreciate your help -- Leon Legorreta

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Dang! DVD printing busted again...
by Tom Horsley 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

I don't print DVDs often enough to notice when it first broke, but I can't print them with fedora 14: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699241 If I boot my old fedora 13 partition, it works fine with the same hardware. Could be anywhere from the Qt libraries to cups or hplip. I hate trying to figure these out. Maybe I'll just leave my old fedora 13 partition around till the printer dies and always boot it to print a DVD :-).

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SELinux is preventing khidpd_0d620558 from write access on the socket Unknown.
by Lawrence E Graves 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

SELinux is preventing khidpd_0d620558 from write access on the socket Unknown. ***** Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests *************************** If you believe that khidpd_0d620558 should be allowed write access on the Unknown socket by default. Then you should report this as a bug. You can generate a local policy module to allow this access. Do allow this access for now by executing: # grep khidpd_0d620558 /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol # semodule -i mypol.pp Additional Information: Source Context system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0 Target Context system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 Target Objects Unknown [ socket ] Source khidpd_0d620558 Source Path khidpd_0d620558 Port <Unknown> Host JesusChrist.localdomain Source RPM Packages Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.9.16-16.fc15 Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Enforcing Host Name JesusChrist.localdomain Platform Linux JesusChrist.localdomain 2.6.38.3-18.fc15.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Apr 22 13:24:23 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 Alert Count 7 First Seen Sat 23 Apr 2011 01:10:35 PM MDT Last Seen Sat 23 Apr 2011 01:10:35 PM MDT Local ID 22003605-0f14-43ab-bb6b-a528ac18c632 Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1303585835.426:3428): avc: denied { write } for pid=3477 comm="khidpd_0d620558" scontext=system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 tclass=socket Hash: khidpd_0d620558,kernel_t,unlabeled_t,socket,write audit2allow #============= kernel_t ============== allow kernel_t unlabeled_t:socket write; audit2allow -R #============= kernel_t ============== allow kernel_t unlabeled_t:socket write;

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