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how to boot from USB on an HP EliteBook
by Michael Hennebry 14 May '25

14 May '25

On Mon, 12 May 2025, Michael Hennebry wrote: > I also have an HP EliteBook 840 G3 laptop > that currently has Windows 10 and F39. > I'd been hoping to install F42 on both machines the same way. > The laptop has no DVD drive. > Alas, I no longer have any idea how I got F39 onto the laptop. > It no longer boots from USB and there is not a lot of other options. Anyone know how to bbot from USB? -- Michael hennebry(a)mail.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called Hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called Software." -- Mi Neaugh Gno

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Audio not working after updates F42
by Frederic Muller 13 May '25

13 May '25

Hi! I installed F42 yesterday and the sound was working at first. Now that I've copied my old files and updated everything I have no sound. How can I figure out what's going on and eventually fix it (that'd be nice). Thank you. Fred

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android & linux
by Bob Marčan 13 May '25

13 May '25

There is a whole bunch of SW to use a microphone and a speaker on your phone. What i want is opposite . My phone should use my microphone and speakers on my Linux. Is there anything like this too? BR, Bob

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F42 live hangs at boot
by Michael Hennebry 13 May '25

13 May '25

I downloaded Fedora-Workstation-Live-42-1.1.x86_64.iso and followed directions to check the checksum. dd'ed the file to /dev/sdf . At the time, that was a USB adapter for an SD card. cp'ed /dev/sdf to f1.iso . cp copied more than was dd'ed, so I interupted it. cmp told me Fedora-Workstation-Live-42-1.1.x86_64.iso was an initial string of f1.iso . When I tried to boot from the SD card, I got Trying to boot from CD-ROM Trying to boot from USB device GRUB hang I have also tried using the boot menu. When I tell the boot menu to use the USB device, it doesn't. It just boots from the hard drive as if that was what I told it. What is going on? What do I try next? -- Michael hennebry(a)mail.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods

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Postfix/sendmail
by jarmo 13 May '25

13 May '25

Could someone explain what means this systemctl status postfix ● postfix.service - Postfix Mail Transport Agent Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/postfix.service; enabled; preset: disabled) Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d └─10-timeout-abort.conf Active: active (running) since Tue 2025-05-13 11:04:24 EEST; 3s ago postfix.service enabled preset;disabled? I can see this in my another system, where sendmail is in use. I have done systemctl enable postfix systemctl start postfix And same there with sendmail.. This preset is disabled, what that means? Jarmo

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Fedora 41 to 42 upgrade
by Emmett Culley 12 May '25

12 May '25

Does anyone know if the /usr/bin /usr/sbin snafu has been fixed in the latest Fedora 42 repo? I am referring to the issue that messes with access to things like postfix's sendmail via symlink. Emmett -- Evolution as taught in public schools is science. No faith required.

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F42 Server Installer problems
by Robert McBroom 12 May '25

12 May '25

New system with 1.2T drive. Has Windows 11 on it. Split the drive with the windows manager for 1.2T free space. Trying to put f42 server on the free space. The installer options for custom install won't enable. Only the automatic choice. Would typically make three partitions boot,root and home. How do I see the free space?

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sub for dump/restore?
by ToddAndMargo 11 May '25

11 May '25

Hi All, I have two servers affected by: restore: <name unknown>: ftruncate: Invalid argument https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2359295 This is pretty critical to me. And pretty much anyone using dump/restore. The maintainer seems to be ignoring this. Is there an ext4 sub for dump/restore that is maintained by the repo? Many thanks, -T

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is xroach safe?
by ToddAndMargo 10 May '25

10 May '25

Hi All, Yes, I am or was 12 years old at one time. Any way to tell if this is infected or just a fun game? (I used it years ago on Solaris. Total fun.) https://fedora.pkgs.org/41/rpm-sphere-x86_64/xroach-12.6.97-2474.1.x86_64.r… Many thanks, -T

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Deepin Desktop Environment
by Earl Ramirez 10 May '25

10 May '25

I don't use Deepin but I find this a bit interesting and would like to share it with those that use it. https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/09/opensuse_ditches_deepin/ Kind Regards Earl

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