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Go/NoGo Meeting
by Phil Dobbin 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

Hi, all. Would I be right in thinking that tonight (at 20:00 UTC) is the Go/NoGo Meeting to determine whether Fedora 18 is released next Tuesday the Eight? Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 5.8 & 6.3, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy & Spherical, Lubuntu 12.10, OS X Snow Leopard & Ubuntu Precise & Quantal

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is "Network Install" the same as "BFO"?
by John Picard 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-prerelease provides a gPXE -> BFO option which links to http://boot.fedoraproject.org, based upon BKO (boot.kernel.org) iPXE ... Is this the same as the "Network Install" option listed at http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options#formats ? Or what is the difference?

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Partitioning between SDD and HDD
by Javier Perez 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

Hi I am looking forward to rebuild my system. I want to buy a SSD to place all fixed, operating system files in there and use the HDD for my Data and variable operating system files. looks like /home and /var should go on the HDD. Can I have a small ramdisk to place /var/run or would it cause instability issues if I try to hibernate/sleep the system? This would be a desktop system, right now I am tripple booting Ubuntu/Win2k/Fedora on it. Another question, is it possible to combine the /boot partition of Fedora with the one of Ubuntu 12.04? I think both are using grub2 nowadays, or would it be asking for endless trouble? What partition scheme would you recommend? How big an SSD would I need? I look forward to a system that boots faster and works faster when starting up programs and such, and I want to minimize wear and tear on the SSD (I understand they have a limit on rewrites) -- ------------------------------ /\_/\ |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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KDE Network icon disappeared
by Timothy Murphy 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

I'm running Fedora-17 KDE. The network icon in the system tray in my panel has disappeared, and is not listed among hidden icons. This happened once before, and I seem to recall that some kind soul told me how to recover the icon. I tried yum-reinstalling NetworkManager (and kde-plasma-networkmanagement-libs) but that didn't seem to do the trick. Any enlightenment gratefully received.

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Ctrl+Alt+Backspace -
by Bob Goodwin 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

I have a new Fedora-18 64 bit XFCE Live install and and I find that ctrl+alt+backspace does not work. Is that expected? I need that function with my equipment. I have two Saitek illuminated keyboards the have done strange things when I switch the color/brightness since F-16. After the color/brightness is toggled to max I have to log out and in again using ctrl+alt+backspace. This on two different computers. On this F-17 box I can log out/in that way, not on the new F-18 install. How can I change that? Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box7

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Installing F18 Beta on Dell XPX 15z
by Chandana De Silva 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

Hello All, I am trying to install Fedora 18 Beta x86+64 on my Dell XPS 15z, and would appreciate any help. I am running this laptop on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. This needs the following parameters on the 3.2.34 and later kernels to make the screen work: *acpi_backlight=vendor dell_laptop.backlight=0* On earlier kernels, it was solved with; *acpi=noirq* The default installation does of Fedora `8 not work, it displays a noveau error message and hangs. *nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0xD581: i2c wr fail: -6* It went beyond this just once (not sure how/why), and failed with the following; *no medium found on /dev/sr0** **dracut: FAIL : Failed to mount block device of live image* Questions --------- How do I get to edit the kernel parameters at install time, so that I can try the acpi switches ? Do I need to give additional kernel parameters for dracut to read the DVD ? Also, has any one successfully installed F18 on the Dell XPS 15z ?

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