Re: fedora 28 installation causing problems for Debian Sid

2018-09-19 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2018-09-19 10:02 a.m., Frank McCormick wrote: I installed Fedora 28 on a second partition sda6 on my hd yesterday. It seemed to go well, but this morning when I booted into my regular system Debian Sid and tried to install Grub into the Debian partition sda5 it refused saying ext2 file syst

Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Debians installer?

2018-02-22 Thread David Wright
On Thu 22 Feb 2018 at 18:56:11 (+0100), Erwan David wrote: > Le 02/22/18 à 18:07, Roberto C. Sánchez a écrit : > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 04:15:43PM +, Indo Neh wrote: > >>There is a boot option in Fedora 'inst.gpt' which forces the Fedora 26 > >>Anaconda installer to recognize a drive

Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Debians installer?

2018-02-22 Thread Erwan David
Le 02/22/18 à 18:07, Roberto C. Sánchez a écrit : > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 04:15:43PM +, Indo Neh wrote: >>There is a boot option in Fedora 'inst.gpt' which forces the Fedora 26 >>Anaconda installer to recognize a drive as a GPT drive for the purposes of >>the Anaconda installer se

Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Debians installer?

2018-02-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 04:15:43PM +, Indo Neh wrote: >There is a boot option in Fedora 'inst.gpt' which forces the Fedora 26 >Anaconda installer to recognize a drive as a GPT drive for the purposes of >the Anaconda installer setting up the drive with a GPT partition table. > >

Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Debian?

2017-11-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 07:23:42AM +, Indo Neh wrote: > >Could this somehow be added to the Debian installer as this option is >useful for anyone who wants to set up a drive on a BIOS-based system as a >GPT drive without having to manually partition the drive after manually >se

Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Debian?

2017-11-07 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 07:23:42AM +, Indo Neh wrote: > Could this somehow be added to the Debian installer as this option is > I didn't realise people would get so stuck on names, by the 2nd email it > should have been obvious I meant this about Debian not Ubuntu. In your 2nd email you we

Re: Not really OffTopic - was {Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Ubiquity/Debian?}

2017-11-06 Thread Michael Stone
On November 6, 2017 7:12:37 PM EST, Richard Owlett wrote: >Why isn't query by user of a derivative [Ununtu] ask parent distro >[Debian] suggest a feature. Because ubuntu has its own installer. Since an end user typically doesn't know what parts of a derivative are straight from upstream and wh

Re: Not really OffTopic - was {Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Ubiquity/Debian?}

2017-11-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 06 Nov 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: > Why isn't query by user of a derivative [Ununtu] ask parent distro [Debian] > suggest a feature. Ubuntu uses Ubiquity. Debian does not. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Cheop's Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedul

Not really OffTopic - was {Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Ubiquity/Debian?}

2017-11-06 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/06/2017 03:26 PM, David Wright wrote: (Copied to the OP.) On Mon 06 Nov 2017 at 20:34:38 (+), Tom Furie wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 08:04:40PM +, Indo Neh wrote: There is a boot option in Fedora 'inst.gpt' which forces the Fedora 26 Could this somehow be added to Ubiquity a

Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Ubiquity/Debian?

2017-11-06 Thread David Wright
(Copied to the OP.) On Mon 06 Nov 2017 at 20:34:38 (+), Tom Furie wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 08:04:40PM +, Indo Neh wrote: > > There is a boot option in Fedora 'inst.gpt' which forces the Fedora 26 > > > Could this somehow be added to Ubiquity as this option is useful for anyone >

Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Ubiquity/Debian?

2017-11-06 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 08:04:40PM +, Indo Neh wrote: > There is a boot option in Fedora 'inst.gpt' which forces the Fedora 26 > Could this somehow be added to Ubiquity as this option is useful for anyone Wasn't the reply you received yesterday sufficient? You'll get on a lot better if you a

Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Ubiquity/Ubuntu?

2017-11-05 Thread deloptes
Indo Neh wrote: > There is a boot option in Fedora 'inst.gpt' which forces the Fedora 26 > Anaconda installer to recognize a drive as a GPT drive for the purposes of > the Anaconda installer setting up the drive with a GPT partition table. > > https://rhinstaller.github.io/anaconda/boot-options.h

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-03-08 Thread Graham
On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 19:30:29 -0500 Michael Pobega wrote: > Not to bring up an old thread (I'm bored here on the train, reading > through my archives of d-u), but why do people feel the need to tell > everyone when they are leaving? It's probably likely that they never arrived in the first place.

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-03-08 Thread Sjors Gielen
John Hasler schreef: I think that's a positive feature of the Debian BTS. People who are unable or unwilling to figure out how to use either Reportbug or the pointy-clicky Reportbug-ng are unlikely to file useful bug reports. I disagree with you there. If somebody sees a random application cra

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-03-08 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 03:52:54PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Probably because they want to let us know what in their opinion is wrong. > > They probably want to hear "Oh, thanks for that bug report, I just fixed > > that for you, now you can return!" We should take these messages and put the >

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-03-08 Thread John Hasler
Dotan Cohen writes: > So, have those items been added to this hyppothetical TODO list? Where is > this list on the intercords? In the Debian Bug Tracking System. > Some people just don't know how to file a bug report. And to be honest, > on Debian with no WWW bug reporting interface I just don't

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-03-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Probably because they want to let us know what in their opinion is wrong. > They probably want to hear "Oh, thanks for that bug report, I just fixed > that for you, now you can return!" We should take these messages and put the > individual pieces like "ATI and WiFi don't seem to work on Lenny AM

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-03-08 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Michael Pobega wrote: > Not to bring up an old thread (I'm bored here on the train, reading > through my archives of d-u), but why do people feel the need to tell > everyone when they are leaving? I mean, if it was someone who's names I > recognize from seeing often (Joey Hess and Celejar come to m

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-03-08 Thread Sjors Gielen
Michael Pobega schreef: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:22:08AM -0400, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: Well, a fun time (one week), sweating it up to make my ATI and Wifi work in Lenny AMD64 but nothing. With old fedora wifi works from the live cd and ATI with the update. No need even to try it with

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-03-07 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:22:08AM -0400, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: > Well, a fun time (one week), sweating it up to make my ATI and Wifi work > in Lenny AMD64 but nothing. With old fedora wifi works from the live cd > and ATI with the update. No need even to try it with my dell or my > Aspir

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-02-25 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: > I hardly find Debian a stable distro. Using debian testing for about 6 years now on all my servers, PCs and laptops, and constantly torturing my systems with packet installs/uninstalls/manual configurations and all kind of fiddling inside /etc/, I really don't ha

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-02-25 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Andrew McGlashan wrote: Hi, Jimmy Johnson wrote: If you like Fedora then you will love CentOS, in my humble opinion Fedora is no more than testing for Red Hat, while CentOS is Red Hat Enterprise. Umm, I think it would be more correct to compare Fedora with Debian SID -- Fedora is testing gr

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-02-25 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Jimmy Johnson wrote: If you like Fedora then you will love CentOS, in my humble opinion Fedora is no more than testing for Red Hat, while CentOS is Red Hat Enterprise. Umm, I think it would be more correct to compare Fedora with Debian SID -- Fedora is testing ground and the baby of Red

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-02-25 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: Well, a fun time (one week), sweating it up to make my ATI and Wifi work in Lenny AMD64 but nothing. With old fedora wifi works from the live cd and ATI with the update. No need even to try it with my dell or my Aspireone. So byebye Debian. I found on lenny many o

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-02-25 Thread Chris Davies
Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: > Well, a fun time (one week), sweating it up to make my ATI and Wifi work > in Lenny AMD64 but nothing. With old fedora wifi works from the live cd > and ATI with the update. No need even to try it with my dell or my > Aspireone. So byebye Debian. Be glad you have

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-02-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi, While bug reports are best sent using reportbug(1), reporting problems to the list can sometimes help as well. On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:22:08AM -0400, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: > Well, a fun time (one week), sweating it up to make my ATI and Wifi work > in Lenny AMD64 but nothing. Wit

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-02-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: > Well, a fun time (one week), sweating it up to make my ATI and Wifi work > in Lenny AMD64 but nothing. With old fedora wifi works from the live cd > and ATI with the update. No need even to try it with my dell or my > Aspireone. So byebye Debian. FWIW, my ati work

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-02-25 Thread Thierry Chatelet
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Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-02-25 Thread Aioanei Rares
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo < rodolfo.alca...@padep.org.bo> wrote: > Well, a fun time (one week), sweating it up to make my ATI and Wifi work > in Lenny AMD64 but nothing. With old fedora wifi works from the live cd > and ATI with the update. No need even to try it wi

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-02-25 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:22:08AM -0400, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: > Well, a fun time (one week), sweating it up to make my ATI and Wifi work > in Lenny AMD64 but nothing. With old fedora wifi works from the live cd > and ATI with the update. No need even to try it with my dell or my > Aspir

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-02-25 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo said: > So byebye Debian. Around here we have a saying, "don't let the door hit you in the a$$ on the way out." Means, "don't brag about it, just hurry up and go, for doG's sake!" Cybe R. Wizard -- Nice computers don't go down. Larry Niven, Steven Barnes

RE: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-02-25 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo [mailto:rodolfo.alca...@padep.org.bo] > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:22 AM > Subject: Fedora guy byebyes Debian > > Well, a fun time (one week), sweating it up to make my ATI and Wifi work > in Lenny AMD64 but nothing. With old fedora wifi works from the li

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-02-25 Thread Javier
Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo escribió: > Well, a fun time (one week), sweating it up to make my ATI and Wifi work > in Lenny AMD64 but nothing. With old fedora wifi works from the live cd > and ATI with the update. No need even to try it with my dell or my > Aspireone. So byebye Debian. > > I found on

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-18 Thread H.S.
Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: > >>> Is there any short install guide (like http://www.fedorafaq.org/) you >>> can suggest for a debian newbie? >> Maybe http://www.debian-administration.org/ > > Very fuzzy. You can read the former and be crystal clear into fedora in > 10 minutes. Im sure Debian

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/18/2009 05:51 AM, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: Am Dienstag, den 17.02.2009, 15:53 -0600 schrieb Ron Johnson: On 02/17/2009 03:00 PM, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: Downloaded netinst AMD64 but no GUI. Now, installing fglrx. netinst might not have a GUI installer? (The Lenny GUI looks

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 07:51:00AM -0400, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 17.02.2009, 15:53 -0600 schrieb Ron Johnson: > > On 02/17/2009 03:00 PM, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: > > > Is there any short install guide (like http://www.fedorafaq.org/) you > > > can suggest for a

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-18 Thread Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo
Am Dienstag, den 17.02.2009, 16:58 -0500 schrieb H.S.: > Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: > > Is there any short install guide (like http://www.fedorafaq.org/) you > > can suggest for a debian newbie? > There is http://www.debian.org/. > Plus, you can also consult http://www.debianhelp.org/. No, m

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-18 Thread Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo
Am Dienstag, den 17.02.2009, 15:53 -0600 schrieb Ron Johnson: > On 02/17/2009 03:00 PM, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: > > Downloaded netinst AMD64 but no GUI. Now, installing fglrx. > netinst might not have a GUI installer? (The Lenny GUI looks > exactly like the TUI installer, and isn't very d

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/17/2009 03:58 PM, H.S. wrote: >> >> Other than this, you will find this list very helpful. Searching google >> usually gives pretty good hits too. >> >> Coming from Fedora, it may be no useful to know that there is no >> runlevel (init x) command in Debian as there is in

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-02-17 23:07 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 17 February 2009 21:58:20 H.S. wrote: >> Coming from Fedora, it may be no useful to know that there is no >> runlevel (init x) command in Debian as there is in Fedora. Most common >> use for me of these commands was to restart the gui. In d

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2009 03:58 PM, H.S. wrote: Hello, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: Hi all, my first day on the list, usually, I use fedora, since fedora 1 (today's release is 10). Now, I'm trying Lenny. Downloaded netinst AMD64 but no GUI. Now, installing fglrx. Is there any short install guide (lik

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 21:58:20 H.S. wrote: > Coming from Fedora, it may be no useful to know that there is no > runlevel (init x) command in Debian as there is in Fedora. Most common > use for me of these commands was to restart the gui. In debian, almost > all such services are controlled sc

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I don't think Debian defaults to a GUI install, although there is one. Check the F-keys at the boot prompt. Lenny just became stable, the mirrors might be shaky. debian.org has manuals for instalations per architecture, those are extensive and suffice for newbies to the *nix world, so they'll sure

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread H.S.
Hello, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: > Hi all, > > my first day on the list, usually, I use fedora, since fedora 1 (today's > release is 10). Now, I'm trying Lenny. Downloaded netinst AMD64 but no > GUI. Now, installing fglrx. > > Is there any short install guide (like http://www.fedorafaq.o

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2009 03:00 PM, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: Hi all, my first day on the list, usually, I use fedora, since fedora 1 (today's release is 10). Now, I'm trying Lenny. Downloaded netinst AMD64 but no GUI. Now, installing fglrx. netinst might not have a GUI installer? (The Lenny GUI l

Re: Fedora Core 5 on a primary HD and Debian 3.1 on a slave HD

2006-07-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:33:01AM +0200, Dan wrote: > > Debian. Details depend on whether the FC5 bootloader is lilo or grub. > Joe, sorry to say that I cannot find out if I use lilo or grub on > FC5...do you know how to find out? > -dan > On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:58 +0100, Joe wrote: > > Dan wrot

Re: Fedora Core 5 on a primary HD and Debian 3.1 on a slave HD

2006-07-27 Thread Russell L. Harris
Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Details depend on whether the FC5 bootloader is lilo or grub. > Joe, sorry to say that I cannot find out if I use lilo or grub on > FC5...do you know how to find out? Just look in the directory structure for "/boot/grub". Or execute # find / -iname 'menu.

Re: Fedora Core 5 on a primary HD and Debian 3.1 on a slave HD

2006-07-27 Thread Dan
> Debian. Details depend on whether the FC5 bootloader is lilo or grub. Joe, sorry to say that I cannot find out if I use lilo or grub on FC5...do you know how to find out? -dan On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:58 +0100, Joe wrote: > Dan wrote: > > I run FC5 on one of my two HDs (the same machine). > > How

Re: Fedora Core 5 on a primary HD and Debian 3.1 on a slave HD

2006-07-26 Thread Joe
Dan wrote: I run FC5 on one of my two HDs (the same machine). How do I create a boot procedure where I can choose between the two OSes? If I try to install Debian on the slave HD the installation procedure 'wipes out' the FC5 boot. -dan Tell Debian not to install a bootloader at the appropria

Re: Fedora Core 5 on a primary HD and Debian 3.1 on a slave HD

2006-07-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 04:10:00PM +0200, Dan wrote: > I run FC5 on one of my two HDs (the same machine). > How do I create a boot procedure where I can choose > between the two OSes? If I try to install Debian on > the slave HD the installation procedure 'wipes out' the FC5 boot. > -dan Tell us w

Re: Fedora

2004-11-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 12:47:07AM -0800, ken keanon wrote: > Hi, > This Fedora project is developing along the same line as Debian i.e. > community-base, open-sourced. What's more, It is supported by RedHat. > > Anybody has any opinion about it? Is it better than Debian? > > Ken > Is an or

Re: Fedora

2004-11-25 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 12:47:07AM -0800, ken keanon wrote: > Hi, > This Fedora project is developing along the same line as Debian i.e. > community-base, open-sourced. What's more, It is supported by RedHat. > > Anybody has any opinion about it? Is it better than Debian? I think this pretty muc

Re: Fedora

2004-11-25 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: ken keanon To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 3:47 AM Subject: Fedora > Hi, > This Fedora project is developing along the same line as Debian i.e. community-base, > open-sourced. What's more, It is supported by RedHat. -

Re: Fedora

2004-11-25 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 00:47:07 -0800 (PST), ken keanon > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > This Fedora project is developing along the same line as Debian i.e. > > community-base, open-sourced. same as 1000's of other linux distro .. not a big

Re: Fedora

2004-11-25 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 00:47:07 -0800 (PST), ken keanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > This Fedora project is developing along the same line as Debian i.e. > community-base, open-sourced. What's more, It is supported by RedHat. > > Anybody has any opinion about it? Is it better than Debian

Re: Fedora Trademark guidelines. Don't use Fedora.

2004-07-23 Thread Silvan
> By that same token, someone using the Fedora name for a modified Fedora > distribution could POTENTIALLY make RH look even worse than it already > does. Umm... I mean... "could make RH look bad". :) I played with Ruddy Headware once. Installing Debian made it all go away. :) -- Michael McIn

Re: Fedora Trademark guidelines. Don't use Fedora.

2004-07-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 16:47, Karl Hegbloom wrote: > http://fedora.redhat.com/about/trademarks/guidelines/page5.html While I agree with the sentiment ("Don't use Fedora.") I don't agree with the reasoning behind it. I choose to not use Fedora because it is not well suited to what I do. The fact tha