On Monday 01 June 2009, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 21:01 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
Well, its busy putting the finishing touches and the reboot to rawhide right now. It just asked for a runlevel 3 passwd.
And the first casualty is my accessory usb mouse, its dead and I am stuck with that totally worthless scratchpad, which I swear picks up the local radio station, its totally spastic if the hand isn't held so high above the keyboard when typing that its strictly one finger typing.
Gene, I think if you look at System -> Hardware -> Mouse in F11, there is a setting to disable the touchpad when typing. If you don't see that, or if you use KDE and it doesn't offer that option, check out syndaemon, which is the utility that accomplishes that. It's part of the synaptics driver package.
To do that, it has to recognize a doubletap or a left click on the scratchpad. It did neither. F10 disk in drive, boot from dvd try 2 now, it locked up when I tried to delete the existing LVM crap so I could partition it the way I wanted on the first try.
And it just did it again, would not delete the LVM stuff, claiming I had to define a root partition, so I went down to /dev/sda1, the ntfs partition, and clicked edit. And for the second time it is frozen solid. I was going to remove it as the xp install on that 30 gigs is of no more use to me, and set it up as a couple of linux partitions, starting with a 500 meg /boot.
Correction, it will wake up and let me move the mouse 2 or 3 inches, then freeze again for 2 or 3 minutes.
I've been bitching long and loudly (since FC2 TBE) about the fedora partitioning tools, and every increment in fedora finds an even more piss- poor, broken partitioning tool being supplied. Its LVM or there is the hiway to fedora, and from 2 personal experiences, one wrong byte on an LVM system=total loss. Reinstall from scratch, there is no repair facility, no e2fsck for lvm. Screw that...
I'll find a copy of gparted and fix it, then see if I can bypass that menu, really folks, but why the hell should I have to?
Humm, better yet, I have a kubuntu-8.04 disk around here someplace. Yeah, that's the ticket. And that will leave only this box running fedora 10 in my whole network.
-- Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs