Re: Is this the Linux list for beginners

2010-05-28 Thread Roger
On 05/29/2010 04:01 PM, Larry Brower wrote: > Mercury Rising wrote: > >> Linux seems a bit overwhelming to me, but I am determined to get it and >> learn it. Is this the right LISTSERV to be on? >> >> Elwin >> >> > It is the right list to discuss and/or get general help for issues > rel

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread David Boles
On 5/29/2010 1:40 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/29/2010 01:29 PM, David Boles wrote: >> >> Hi Ed. Peace? >> > I, for one, was never at war. >> Perhaps a problem on my part. If so I stand corrected. >> > I thought I was clear in that it wasn't your problem. It is a > limitation as to how the

Re: Is this the Linux list for beginners

2010-05-28 Thread Larry Brower
Mercury Rising wrote: > > Linux seems a bit overwhelming to me, but I am determined to get it and > learn it. Is this the right LISTSERV to be on? > > Elwin > It is the right list to discuss and/or get general help for issues related to Fedora. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproje

Is this the Linux list for beginners

2010-05-28 Thread Mercury Rising
Linux seems a bit overwhelming to me, but I am determined to get it and learn it. Is this the right LISTSERV to be on? Elwin -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http:/

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/29/2010 01:29 PM, David Boles wrote: > > Hi Ed. Peace? > I, for one, was never at war. > Perhaps a problem on my part. If so I stand corrected. > I thought I was clear in that it wasn't your problem. It is a limitation as to how the information is presented to you by gmail. As for the

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread David Boles
On 5/29/2010 12:59 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/29/2010 11:49 AM, David Boles wrote: >> On 5/28/2010 11:36 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >>> On 05/29/2010 10:58 AM, David Boles wrote: >>> I have seen what Raul posted so far. He has not written anything to me about that. I respect him.

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/29/2010 11:49 AM, David Boles wrote: > On 5/28/2010 11:36 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 05/29/2010 10:58 AM, David Boles wrote: >> >>> I have seen what Raul posted so far. He has not written anything to me >>> about that. I respect him. If he had I would respect his wishes. >>> >>>

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread David Boles
On 5/29/2010 12:01 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 23:38 -0400, David Boles wrote: >> You, as I recall, are one of the part time users that complained about >> the layout of the website. > > Your recollection is faulty. Could be. This crap thread has gone on much too long

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread David Boles
On 5/28/2010 11:38 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 22:52 -0400, David Boles wrote: > >> Honest all I was hoping for was no more names and friends united for a >> common cause. > > I'm certain that calling people assholes doesn't convey that message > whatsoever. > > This is co

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread David Boles
On 5/28/2010 11:36 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/29/2010 10:58 AM, David Boles wrote: >> >> I have seen what Raul posted so far. He has not written anything to me >> about that. I respect him. If he had I would respect his wishes. >> > So, you read what Raul has said...you understand he has indi

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/29/2010 08:15 AM, Dale J. Chatham wrote: > OK, I was an idiot. I took about 20 minutes yesterday looking for a way > to disable the floppy. Today, it jumped out at me. > > Doh! > > I might suggest that timing out the attempt to query a floppy and moving > on might be a wise for the develo

Re: Rocket Fedora 13 media artwork

2010-05-28 Thread Dick Roark
Initially, I didn't realize one could vote on it. Apparently only four people have voted, one of which is me. Maybe a VOTE HERE! tag would help. The artwork is very nice. On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Valent Turkovic wrote: > > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Valent

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 23:38 -0400, David Boles wrote: > You, as I recall, are one of the part time users that complained about > the layout of the website. Your recollection is faulty. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:/

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 22:52 -0400, David Boles wrote: > Honest all I was hoping for was no more names and friends united for a > common cause. I'm certain that calling people assholes doesn't convey that message whatsoever. This is coming from someone who agrees with your general sentiments

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread David Boles
On 5/28/2010 11:29 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 22:31 -0400, David Boles wrote: >> And what you said was well said. And you did it WITHOUT attacking >> anyone! How refreshing! >> >> :-) << that smile means that I am smiling. > > There isn't a single smiley in the rant yo

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/29/2010 10:58 AM, David Boles wrote: > > I have seen what Raul posted so far. He has not written anything to me > about that. I respect him. If he had I would respect his wishes. > So, you read what Raul has said...you understand he has indicated that the folks you pounced on where appropr

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Genes MailLists
> On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 21:25 -0400, David Boles wrote: I took your post as self referential ... O.S (ob :-) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedorapro

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/29/2010 10:52 AM, David Boles wrote: > > > Several, I can not say you, were not very nice to the person that > designed the site page. > I did say "recent". Meaning the discussion between Bill Crawford, Patrick O'Callaghan, and Tom Horsley where they are simply discussing terminology. Si

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 21:25 -0400, David Boles wrote: > > What on Earth are you talking about? This branch of the thread has > moved > > on from complaining about the web page and is now about what spins > > should be called in future. Get a grip. > > > I have a grip fella. But you people, you at

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 22:31 -0400, David Boles wrote: > And what you said was well said. And you did it WITHOUT attacking > anyone! How refreshing! > > :-) << that smile means that I am smiling. There isn't a single smiley in the rant you posted earlier, the one that starts with the line: SHUT

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread David Boles
On 5/28/2010 10:43 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/29/2010 10:20 AM, David Boles wrote: >> On 5/28/2010 9:45 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >>> On 05/29/2010 09:25 AM, David Boles wrote: >>> I apologize to all of the other users of this list for my language, before and now, but... you peo

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread David Boles
On 5/28/2010 10:45 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/29/2010 09:56 AM, David Boles wrote: >> On 5/28/2010 9:35 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >>> On 05/29/2010 08:56 AM, David Boles wrote: >>> On 5/28/2010 8:05 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: That makes two. You also deserve congratulati

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread David Boles
On 5/28/2010 10:21 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 28 May 2010 19:10:55 -0700 > Mike Fedyk wrote: > >> So please count to 10, or maybe 20 and realize that there are many >> circles of people outside and within fedora that don't watch all other >> parts of the whole. It just wouldn't scale that w

problems with nfs and autofs after upgrade to f13

2010-05-28 Thread Mike Martin
anyone having any issues with this this is my auto.direct (which worked perfectly on f12) /videos -rw192.168.0.3:/data i have tried this /videos -rw,-nolock 192.168.0.3:/data messages are May 29 02:28:29 localhost rpc.statd[3146]: Versio

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread David Boles
On 5/28/2010 10:28 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 05/29/2010 04:52 AM, David Boles wrote: >> SHUT UP! >> >> None of you was here when this was talked about? Since October? And now >> you want to bitch becasue the site does NOT fit YOUR needs. REALLY! >> > > [Snipped] > > Calm down. The threa

radeon to nvidia to radeon produces pain

2010-05-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
I'm on my third video card. The first was a radeon. After I zapped that one, I had it replaced with an nvidia card because it had AGP and I could find it. Having cooked or otherwise damaged that one, I replaced it with a VisionTek Radeon HD 3650. It was the AGP card I could find. Knoppix 5.1.0 runs

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/29/2010 09:56 AM, David Boles wrote: > On 5/28/2010 9:35 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 05/29/2010 08:56 AM, David Boles wrote: >> >>> On 5/28/2010 8:05 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> >>> >>> That makes two. You also deserve congratulations for doing your part. >>> That makes you part 't

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread Dale J. Chatham
OK, I was an idiot. I took about 20 minutes yesterday looking for a way to disable the floppy. Today, it jumped out at me. Doh! I might suggest that timing out the attempt to query a floppy and moving on might be a wise for the developers to do :) Dale On 05/28/2010 02:45 PM, jack craig

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/29/2010 10:20 AM, David Boles wrote: > On 5/28/2010 9:45 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 05/29/2010 09:25 AM, David Boles wrote: >> >>> I apologize to all of the other users of this list for my language, >>> before and now, but... you people are assholes! >>> >>> >> I hope you

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Sam Varshavchik writes: > Go into your BIOS setup. See if your BIOS believes that there's a > floppy drive hiding somewhere, and disable it. Ok, I just did that. I suppose it will take till f14 to see if that fixes things. It is curious that all other kernels (and we are talking at least f10 w

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread David Boles
On 5/28/2010 9:45 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/29/2010 09:25 AM, David Boles wrote: >> >> I apologize to all of the other users of this list for my language, >> before and now, but... you people are assholes! >> > I hope you do realize that that is a personal attack on individuals. I > am sure

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread David Boles
On 5/28/2010 10:10 PM, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:22 PM, David Boles wrote: >> On 5/28/2010 4:32 PM, Bill Crawford wrote: >>> On 28 May 2010 18:40, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 17:48 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote: Well, we aren't talking about de

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread David Boles
On 5/28/2010 9:35 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/29/2010 08:56 AM, David Boles wrote: >> On 5/28/2010 8:05 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> >> That makes two. You also deserve congratulations for doing your part. >> That makes you part 'two' for two. >> >> > No, that simply makes me one of two that

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/29/2010 04:52 AM, David Boles wrote: > SHUT UP! > > None of you was here when this was talked about? Since October? And now > you want to bitch becasue the site does NOT fit YOUR needs. REALLY! > [Snipped] Calm down. The thread has moved towards more constructive feedback and we do wan

Re: Omega live -

2010-05-28 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/29/2010 12:09 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Is there an Omega Live version of F-13 [for USB flash drive] to be > available and if so when? > I am hoping to do a initial release before next week. Rahul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subsc

Re: RSS for F13 updates

2010-05-28 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/29/2010 05:11 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > What's the appropriate contact to request new feeds at: > http://planet.fedoraproject.org/infofeed/ > > Should I file an RFE in bugzilla? > webmaster AT fedoraproject.org Rahul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe o

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 28 May 2010 19:10:55 -0700 Mike Fedyk wrote: > So please count to 10, or maybe 20 and realize that there are many > circles of people outside and within fedora that don't watch all other > parts of the whole. It just wouldn't scale that way. > > My recommendation is after the designer SI

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/29/2010 07:40 AM, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > My recommendation is after the designer SIG has hashed it over, > attempt getting feedback from the intended audience, and that audience > is the users list and then the general public. > Users list is just one among several possible places. As you

F13 hint for those with fat fingers

2010-05-28 Thread Tom Horsley
If, like me, you are inclined to make a fair number of typos when typing commands in bash, you might want to consider adding this to your .bashrc file: unset -f command_not_found_handle Otherwise, packagekit will apparently spend some indeterminate amount of time trying to help you out by find

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:22 PM, David Boles wrote: > On 5/28/2010 4:32 PM, Bill Crawford wrote: >> On 28 May 2010 18:40, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 17:48 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote: >>> >>> Well, we aren't talking about desktop vs netbook vs server but I guess >>> it's

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/29/2010 09:25 AM, David Boles wrote: > > I apologize to all of the other users of this list for my language, > before and now, but... you people are assholes! > I hope you do realize that that is a personal attack on individuals. I am sure Raul will, upon reading your message, respond. A

Re: "yum grouplist" under Fedora-13

2010-05-28 Thread Timothy Murphy
Tom H wrote: > yum groupinfo 'Administration Tools' Thanks. That does indeed list the packages in each group, and confirms that I do not in fact have installed the groups listed as such by "yum grouplist", after installing from the KDE Live CD. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/29/2010 08:56 AM, David Boles wrote: > On 5/28/2010 8:05 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 05/29/2010 07:56 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: >> >>> On Friday 28 May 2010 04:22 PM, David Boles wrote: >>> >>> Bittorent sucks. Period. >>> I am replying just t

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread David Boles
On 5/28/2010 8:17 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 19:22 -0400, David Boles wrote: >> On 5/28/2010 4:32 PM, Bill Crawford wrote: >>> On 28 May 2010 18:40, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 17:48 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote: Well, we aren't talking

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread David Boles
On 5/28/2010 7:56 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Friday 28 May 2010 04:22 PM, David Boles wrote: >> Bittorent sucks. Period. >> > > I am replying just to disagree with this part of your email. > >> A question. Bittorent exists because you are supposed to SHARE. Did YOU? >> share? >> >> One down byte

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread David Boles
On 5/28/2010 8:05 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/29/2010 07:56 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: >> On Friday 28 May 2010 04:22 PM, David Boles wrote: >> >>> Bittorent sucks. Period. >>> >>> >> I am replying just to disagree with this part of your email. >> >> >>> A question. Bittorent exists because

Re: "yum grouplist" under Fedora-13

2010-05-28 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Frank Murphy wrote: > >> take each one at a time: >> yum grouplist "Administration Tools" >> >> it will give you a list of pkgs. >> save that list to a file. > > It doesn't seem to tell me anything: > - > [...@carrie

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 19:22 -0400, David Boles wrote: > On 5/28/2010 4:32 PM, Bill Crawford wrote: > > On 28 May 2010 18:40, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 17:48 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote: > >> > >> Well, we aren't talking about desktop vs netbook vs server but I guess > >>

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/29/2010 07:56 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Friday 28 May 2010 04:22 PM, David Boles wrote: > >> Bittorent sucks. Period. >> >> > I am replying just to disagree with this part of your email. > > >> A question. Bittorent exists because you are supposed to SHARE. Did YOU? >> share? >> >

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Friday 28 May 2010 04:22 PM, David Boles wrote: > Bittorent sucks. Period. > I am replying just to disagree with this part of your email. > A question. Bittorent exists because you are supposed to SHARE. Did YOU? > share? > > One down byte / and one up byte is the standard. Did you upload at l

RSS for F13 updates

2010-05-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
What's the appropriate contact to request new feeds at: http://planet.fedoraproject.org/infofeed/ Should I file an RFE in bugzilla? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht writes: d...@chatham.org writes: I cannot get FC13 to install. I get a repeating /dev/fd0 error, which sorta makes sense since the machine doesn't have a floppy. However, it never gets past the error. Has anyone seen this one? Yes. Same here on my Asus M3A78T (AMD)

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
d...@chatham.org writes: > I cannot get FC13 to install. I get a repeating /dev/fd0 error, which > sorta makes sense since the machine doesn't have a floppy. However, it > never gets past the error. > > Has anyone seen this one? Yes. Same here on my Asus M3A78T (AMD) motherboard. It hung unti

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread David Boles
On 5/28/2010 4:32 PM, Bill Crawford wrote: > On 28 May 2010 18:40, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 17:48 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote: >> >> Well, we aren't talking about desktop vs netbook vs server but I guess >> it's immaterial. > > Uh, good point. Sorry. More like Ubuntu vs

Re: "yum grouplist" under Fedora-13

2010-05-28 Thread Timothy Murphy
Frank Murphy wrote: > take each one at a time: > yum grouplist "Administration Tools" > > it will give you a list of pkgs. > save that list to a file. It doesn't seem to tell me anything: - [...@carrie ~]$ sudo yum grouplist "Administration Tools" Loaded plugins: presto,

Re: "yum grouplist" under Fedora-13

2010-05-28 Thread Frank Murphy
On 28/05/10 21:21, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Tom H wrote: > >> To answer the initial query, are you sure that "Authoring and >> Publishing" in in the "Installed Groups" section and not the >> "Available Groups" section? > > As the OP, I can confirm this: > -- > I

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 28 May 2010 17:35:35 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I'm kind of liking Edition. It's certainly preferable to Spin in that it > actually means something to the general public. Especially since "Spin" is no doubt some kind of jargon derived from the observations that CDs spin around, an

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 21:32 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote: > On 28 May 2010 18:40, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 17:48 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote: > >> On 28 May 2010 03:54, Mike Fedyk wrote: > >> > >> > I agree. I think the word "edition" is better. Fedora KE (KDE > >> > Ed

Re: Setup a Floppy in Fedora 13

2010-05-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: [...] > Is the problem that your machine's BIOS doesn't know how to boot > from a CD-ROM? If so, then may I suggest you use Smart Boot Manager? > > http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Smart_Boot_Manager > > I've used it for years, and find it quite adequate for my needs. Ad

Re: Setup a Floppy in Fedora 13

2010-05-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Jim wrote: > On 05/28/2010 04:20 PM, Mike McCarty wrote: >> Jim wrote: >> >>> How do you setup a floppy in FC 13 fstab. >>> >>> I can boot off of a dos disk at startup, but I have a floppy that was >>> formatted by WinXP Pro and it won't boot up or mount -t ntfs-3g >>> /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-28 Thread Andre Robatino
Andre Costa gmail.com> writes: > I have a 9800 GT, and all I had to do for F13 was enable rpmfusion repo and install kmod-nvidia; after that Nvidia driver was already used on the next boot, but it didn't recognize my dual-head setup (which was expected). I tried using nvidia-settings (as root) to

Re: Setup a Floppy in Fedora 13

2010-05-28 Thread Jim
On 05/28/2010 04:20 PM, Mike McCarty wrote: > Jim wrote: > >> How do you setup a floppy in FC 13 fstab. >> >> I can boot off of a dos disk at startup, but I have a floppy that was >> formatted by WinXP Pro and it won't boot up or mount -t ntfs-3g >> /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy , ntfs-3g is install

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-28 Thread Andre Costa
Hi Steven, On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 16:59, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > Hello Everyone, > If the output of "/sbin/lspci | grep VGA" is: > 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] > (rev > a1) > > are the correct instructions for installing the proprietary NVidia dri

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Bill Crawford
On 28 May 2010 18:40, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 17:48 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote: >> On 28 May 2010 03:54, Mike Fedyk wrote: >> >> > I agree.  I think the word "edition" is better.  Fedora KE (KDE >> > Edition)  Fedora GE (Gnome Edition) etc... >> >> It is what Ubuntu are

Re: "yum grouplist" under Fedora-13

2010-05-28 Thread Timothy Murphy
Tom H wrote: > To answer the initial query, are you sure that "Authoring and > Publishing" in in the "Installed Groups" section and not the > "Available Groups" section? As the OP, I can confirm this: -- Installed Groups: Administration Tools Arabic Suppo

Re: Setup a Floppy in Fedora 13

2010-05-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Jim wrote: > How do you setup a floppy in FC 13 fstab. > > I can boot off of a dos disk at startup, but I have a floppy that was > formatted by WinXP Pro and it won't boot up or mount -t ntfs-3g > /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy , ntfs-3g is installed. > > I assumed it is a ntfs type file system . I

Re: Setup a Floppy in Fedora 13

2010-05-28 Thread Mike Guilmot
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Jim wrote: > > I assumed it is a ntfs type file system . > > I believe XP usually formats floppy drives as FAT, not NTFS. -- KR, Mike -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject

Setup a Floppy in Fedora 13

2010-05-28 Thread Jim
How do you setup a floppy in FC 13 fstab. I can boot off of a dos disk at startup, but I have a floppy that was formatted by WinXP Pro and it won't boot up or mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy , ntfs-3g is installed. I assumed it is a ntfs type file system . I want to dual boot WinXP p

Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-28 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
Hello Everyone, If the output of "/sbin/lspci | grep VGA" is: 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] (rev a1) are the correct instructions for installing the proprietary NVidia driver still located here: http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmo

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread Mike Guilmot
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:52 PM, wrote: > It's a relatively new ASUS motherboard, actually two of them. I looked > and looked and found nowhere. > > Usually it's in the first screen of the bios where you can disable the floppy drive. -- KR, Mike -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread dale
It's a relatively new ASUS motherboard, actually two of them. I looked and looked and found nowhere. > > > On 05/28/2010 11:42 AM, d...@chatham.org wrote: >> I cannot get FC13 to install. I get a repeating /dev/fd0 error, which >> sorta makes sense since the machine doesn't have a floppy. Howev

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread jack craig
On 05/28/2010 11:42 AM, d...@chatham.org wrote: > I cannot get FC13 to install. I get a repeating /dev/fd0 error, which > sorta makes sense since the machine doesn't have a floppy. However, it > never gets past the error. > > Has anyone seen this one? > > Help!!! > > :) > >Dale > > In

F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread dale
I cannot get FC13 to install. I get a repeating /dev/fd0 error, which sorta makes sense since the machine doesn't have a floppy. However, it never gets past the error. Has anyone seen this one? Help!!! :) Dale -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change su

Omega live -

2010-05-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
Is there an Omega Live version of F-13 [for USB flash drive] to be available and if so when? Bob -- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedora

Re: A question about yum

2010-05-28 Thread George R Goffe
Hi, I remember all those IEF messages and a TON of others. I liked the "Contact your Systems Programmer" but never said what to do if you were the Systems Programmer. And of course my favorite, "this page intentionally blank". With all the stress in the world, it's good to have this release in l

Re: F13 - VLC does not start

2010-05-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mike Guilmot wrote: > Hi there, > > Just installed VLC via yum: > > Installed: > vlc.i686 > 0:1.0.6-1.fc13 > vlc-core.i686 > 0:1.0.6-1.fc13 > vlc-devel.i686 > 0:1.0.6-1.fc13

Re: modprobe.conf?

2010-05-28 Thread jackson byers
$ uname -r 2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686.PAE my f12 also has an empty modprobe.conf. [by...@f12 ~]$ sudo ls -l /etc/modprobe.conf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 2010-05-10 10:27 /etc/modprobe.conf when rebooting (not often) I see warning messages re modprobe.conf being deprecated. But these warning msgs n

Re: Recover stupid mistake

2010-05-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike Martin wrote: > On 27 May 2010 19:18, Larry Brower wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Tom H wrote: [...] >> You may want to try testdisk. >> >> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download +1 I tried out testdisk on a disk with no problems a couple of yea

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 17:48 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote: > On 28 May 2010 03:54, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > I agree. I think the word "edition" is better. Fedora KE (KDE > > Edition) Fedora GE (Gnome Edition) etc... > > It is what Ubuntu are calling the Desktop / Netbook / Server > "versions" of

Re: Seagate USB disk does not automount

2010-05-28 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/28/2010 09:44 AM, Tom Diehl wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 2010, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > >> On 05/27/2010 09:48 AM, Tom Diehl wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have a new seagate external USB disk that does not mount when plugged in >>> to my F-12 machine. I can mount it by hand and access it normally. >>> >

Feature Request: GSS-TKIP (rfc3645)

2010-05-28 Thread Trever L. Adams
Is it possible to get this supported in Bind if it isn't already? Also, is it possible to get a ddclient like program that will register A and records for the machine in question with a DNS server that is configured in a conf file? Possibly have a way to set it up so it can detect if certain

Re: Fedora 13: abrtd dead

2010-05-28 Thread Bill Crawford
On 28 May 2010 04:52, Braden McDaniel wrote: >        May 25 20:45:30 bolt abrt[9286]: abrt daemon is not running. If it > crashed, /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern contains a stale value, consider > resetting it to 'core' > > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern just contains: > >        |/usr/libexec/a

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Bill Crawford
On 28 May 2010 01:10, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > You do this quite often and it is never quite funny despite the > persistent addition of a smiley at the end.  You can take any logical > statement and exaggerate it to the point of absurdity.  That doesn't > indicate anything meaningful. Actually, "

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Bill Crawford
On 28 May 2010 03:54, Mike Fedyk wrote: > I agree.  I think the word "edition" is better.  Fedora KE (KDE > Edition)  Fedora GE (Gnome Edition) etc... It is what Ubuntu are calling the Desktop / Netbook / Server "versions" of the product. Makes sense to use the same. -- users mailing list users

Re: Seagate USB disk does not automount

2010-05-28 Thread Tom Diehl
On Thu, 27 May 2010, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > On 05/27/2010 09:48 AM, Tom Diehl wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a new seagate external USB disk that does not mount when plugged in >> to my F-12 machine. I can mount it by hand and access it normally. >> >> Does anyone have instructions for adding udev

Re: Replying to digest with threading (was: Regarding Get Fedora page)

2010-05-28 Thread Darr
On Thursday, 27 May, 2010 @ 20:22 zulu, Todd Zullinger scribed: > I don't know if it will help you, but if you visit your list > configuration page and set the 'Get MIME or Plain Text > Digests' to MIME, the digest you receive should have > individual messages which you can reply to. The in-reply

Yahoo Mail Caveats (Was Re: A question about yum.)

2010-05-28 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Fri, 5/28/10, George R Goffe wrote: > Tim, > > I have been looking for replies but found none, that is why I re-posted. > In looking at the archive I see that some have not arrived in my inbox. > Sigh. I have been having troubles with yahoo classic for the past few > months, searching fail

Re: A question about yum.

2010-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 May 2010, Greg Woods wrote: >On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 10:24 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> we shouldn't forget the old concept of DWIM, >> meaning Do What I Mean > >I prefer the more advanced DWISM (Do What I Should've Meant :-) > Now that has got to rate a ROTFLMAO! -- Cheers, G

Re: K3b won't accept converted Wav files from MP3

2010-05-28 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 27 May 2010 15:57:58 -0400, Jim wrote: > FC12-x86_64 > > Used Sound Converter to convert MP3 audio files to WAV files , but K3b , > make Audio CD, won't accept converted WAV files for Burning. The audio > files were orignally wav files before they were converted to MP3s. > > This kind

Re: A question about yum.

2010-05-28 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 10:24 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > we shouldn't forget the old concept of DWIM, > meaning Do What I Mean I prefer the more advanced DWISM (Do What I Should've Meant :-) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription option

Re: "yum grouplist" under Fedora-13

2010-05-28 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 08:21 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Fri, 28 May 2010 12:19:12 +0100 >> Timothy Murphy wrote: >> >> > Is "yum grouplist" obsolete? >> > Or was this a bye-product of my installation method? >> >> I thought grouplist was

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 28 May 2010 10:22:26 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Not too sure I'd like that as it could be taken to imply greater > variation than is really there. Is one distro different from another > merely because of its desktop? As near as I can tell, the primary thing that identifies a distr

Re: F13: strange default for PDF viewer

2010-05-28 Thread Marco Guazzone
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: > Marco Guazzone wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've noticed that the default PDF viewer in >> "/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache" is GIMP: >> >> application/pdf=gimp.desktop;evince.desktop; >> >> In fact, when I try to open a PDF from firefox, it is

F13 Updates repo & DVD Installation issue

2010-05-28 Thread Joseph L. Casale
There is an open bug wrt to proxies, but when I attempt to enable the repo from all sorts of different hardware it fails with a metadata error but if I boot with vnc enabled, it always works? Anyone know if I missed this in BZ or is it unknown? Thanks! jlc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedora

Re: Rocket Fedora 13 media artwork

2010-05-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Valent Turkovic wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Valent Turkovic > wrote: >> http://fcoremix.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/rockets-artwork-for-fedora-13-media/ >> >> I remixed some Fedora graphics to create new CD/DVD labels. >> >> Hope you enjoy them, >> Cheers! > > No comments? Does it suc

Re: A question about yum.

2010-05-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 23:49 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 09:31 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > This thread lives again! Here's my favorite from a > > previous useless error thread: > > > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2007-April/msg03494.html > > There was this brilliant co

Re: F13: Do not mount CD/DVD when inserted into drive

2010-05-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Rick Stevens wrote: > On 05/27/2010 02:50 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Greg Woods wrote: >>> On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 21:12 +0200, Frank Elsner wrote: a CD or DVD gets automatically mounted when inserted into the cd/DVD drive. Where can I disable this behavier? >>> System -> Preferenc

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 23:43 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 08:47 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > So now we can talk about the edition of the release of the distro :-) > > ;-) Well, distro is the word that's always been used with Linux, for as > long as I can remember. Ubuntu dis

Re: Replying to digest with threading (was: Re: Regarding Get Fedora page)

2010-05-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 23:41 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 08:42 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Gmane also seems to have difficulty with proper reply threading, but > > maybe I'm out of date on that one. > > I can't say I noticed that when I looked at it quite some time ago. One

Re: F13 - VLC does not start

2010-05-28 Thread David A. Paredes Rios
Same problem here with vlc installed from Repos, using Fedora 13. regards. On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Mike Guilmot wrote: > Hi there, > > Just installed VLC via yum: > > Installed: > vlc.i686 > 0:1.0.6-1.fc13 > vlc-core.i686 > 0:1.0.6-1.fc13 > vlc-devel.i686 > 0:1.0.6-1.fc13 > > Dependen

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