SV: Installing F25

2016-12-06 Thread Martin S
Possibly, at the last attempt I actually did get grub installed. /Martin S Från: Terry Polzin [mailto:foxec...@gmail.com] Skickat: den 6 december 2016 17:40 Till: Community support for Fedora users Ämne: Re: Installing F25 It sounds to me as if the /boot on /dev/sda1 didn't completely

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-06 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 09:52:14 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > Sorry to have to say this, but "right mod" "not right mode" is BULL. > As long as the media is blank and in undamaged condition, then > the media is in the "right mode" for writing to it. PERIOD. Either consider yourself to be an expert on this

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-06 Thread Doug
On 12/06/2016 01:24 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/05/2016 09:48 PM, Doug wrote: On 12/05/2016 03:29 PM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 05 December 2016, Samuel Sieb sent: Also, I'm sure that dd is not going to run the finalizing step on the CD. /snip/ I have a CD with a file on it that i

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/06/2016 10:18 AM, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 12/06/2016 11:08 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> To clarify my position, dd is NOT broken. Technically it NEVER should >> have been able to write CDR (even with virgin or unfinalized media), >> but the responsibility for blocking that is on the drivers

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-06 Thread jd1008
On 12/06/2016 11:08 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/06/2016 09:40 AM, jd1008 wrote: On 12/06/2016 10:33 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/06/2016 08:56 AM, jd1008 wrote: On 12/05/2016 01:58 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/05/2016 11:45 AM, jd1008 wrote: dd does not HAVE to know ANYTHING about the

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/06/2016 09:40 AM, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 12/06/2016 10:33 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 12/06/2016 08:56 AM, jd1008 wrote: >>> >>> On 12/05/2016 01:58 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/05/2016 11:45 AM, jd1008 wrote: > dd does not HAVE to know ANYTHING about the layout. > The layout

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-06 Thread jd1008
On 12/06/2016 10:33 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/06/2016 08:56 AM, jd1008 wrote: On 12/05/2016 01:58 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/05/2016 11:45 AM, jd1008 wrote: dd does not HAVE to know ANYTHING about the layout. The layout is the format of the iso file which was created by the fedora pro

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/06/2016 08:56 AM, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 12/05/2016 01:58 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> On 12/05/2016 11:45 AM, jd1008 wrote: >>> dd does not HAVE to know ANYTHING about the layout. >>> The layout is the format of the iso file which was created by the fedora >>> project for f24 desktop release.

Does anyone have hdmi out working on Dell XPs 15 L502x with Fedora 25?

2016-12-06 Thread padraic7a
Hi folks, I have a Dell XPS 15 [L502x]. It comes with an Nvidia GeForce GT525 GPU card. It's an Optimus laptop so an Intel card powers the main display but the hdmi out port connects to the Nvidia card. I have never had the HDMI out work in Fedora and would like to rectify that. Before I go ba

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/06/2016 08:56 AM, jd1008 wrote: And you are wrong about configuring the drive. the drive is rather new, and the media is BRAND NEW and undamaged. Thus the drive is detected and recognized at boot time. There is no other "mode" in question, as long as the drive has not been written to and al

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-06 Thread jd1008
On 12/05/2016 01:58 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/05/2016 11:45 AM, jd1008 wrote: dd does not HAVE to know ANYTHING about the layout. The layout is the format of the iso file which was created by the fedora project for f24 desktop release. I am amazed at the lack of technical knowledge on the p

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-06 Thread jd1008
On 12/05/2016 01:37 PM, Andy Paterson wrote: On Monday 05 Dec 2016 12:27:37 Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/05/2016 12:14 PM, Andy Paterson wrote: Its tiresome reading this kind of "gui mindness" Who is talking about a gui? Everyone in this thread has been talking about command line tools. There

Re: Installing F25

2016-12-06 Thread Terry Polzin
It sounds to me as if the /boot on /dev/sda1 didn't completely get grub2 installed on it. If you couldn't list any files or directories on it I was going to tell you to boot into rescue mode from a CD and reinstall grub. On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Martin S wrote: > *Från:* Terry Polzin [m

SV: Installing F25

2016-12-06 Thread Martin S
Från: Terry Polzin [mailto:foxec...@gmail.com] Skickat: den 6 december 2016 17:19 Till: Community support for Fedora users Ämne: Re: Installing F25 >From your live CD can you mount /dev/sda1 and ls -l? Actually, to my utter amazement the thing actually now works. I’ve done ”exactly the s

Re: Installing F25

2016-12-06 Thread Terry Polzin
>From your live CD can you mount /dev/sda1 and ls -l? On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 11:01 AM, wrote: > 2016-12-06 09:35 skrev Terry Polzin: > >> What does the partitioning of the disk look like. >> >> Can you post an fdisk -l booted from a live CD? >> > > Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes,

Re: Installing F25

2016-12-06 Thread martin
2016-12-06 09:35 skrev Terry Polzin: What does the partitioning of the disk look like. Can you post an fdisk -l booted from a live CD? Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/

Re: Installing F25

2016-12-06 Thread martin
2016-12-06 15:35 skrev Terry Polzin: What does the partitioning of the disk look like. Can you post an fdisk -l booted from a live CD? I can check in a bit. I'm trying to let F25 use the entire disk which is extremely easy to do with Mint. I suppose you want the output of fdisk -l after "ins

Installing F25

2016-12-06 Thread martin
Now I've tried two disks from the Fedora site. Both the "proper" Fedora Workstation, and the Fedora Cinnamon spin. I get the same result with both - they go through the installation routine, ending with a statement that the installation is finished and I can start use the system. Upon reboot, r

Re: Installing F25

2016-12-06 Thread Terry Polzin
What does the partitioning of the disk look like. Can you post an fdisk -l booted from a live CD? On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 9:29 AM, wrote: > Now I've tried two disks from the Fedora site. > Both the "proper" Fedora Workstation, and the Fedora Cinnamon spin. I get > the same result with both - t

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-06 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 5 Dec 2016 12:49:38 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > Suffice it to say that this destruction of the dd functionality is NEW in > linux releases. As far as I can recall, it was not there until as > recently as "dd" has never included anything specific to optical drives and not tape drives either. I

Re: setup for localhost web (PHP) development

2016-12-06 Thread Gour
On Tue, 06 Dec 2016 07:47:34 +1030 Tim wrote: > You may strike problems using .local as a domain name. If you're just > doing it on the same machine, it'll probably be fine. My machine is not in the LAN, iow. single desktop machine, but this part is anyway easily solvable by using some other