Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-31 Thread William Mattison
> Look up S.M.A.R.T., though be aware that some controllers may not > co-operate, but that tends to be things like outboard USB interfaces, or > RAID. Ordinary hard drives plugged straight into the motherboard are > likely to be checkable. It's the hard drive, itself, that checks its > health an

Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-31 Thread William Mattison
I did "smartctl --all /dev/sda > smartctl_out.txt". I got over 200 lines of output. The most recent error reported in the output file is this one: === Error 66 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 13741 hours (572 days + 13 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, th

Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-31 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 31 May 2017, William Mattison sent: > I recall hearing and reading that the output of lithium batteries is > almost flat (better than any other type of battery), but then very > quickly drops (faster than any other type of battery) as it reaches > end-of-life. I can't say th

Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-31 Thread Joseph Loo
On 05/30/2017 09:09 PM, William Mattison wrote: > I wasn't fully convinced these problems are due to the battery. That's why I > listed the four things I found "odd". On the other hand, I recall hearing > and reading that the output of lithium batteries is almost flat (better than > any other

Re: Migrating an existing system with a different OS

2017-05-31 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2017-05-31 at 10:01 +0200, Walter H. wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using Windows with several virtual machines (VMware); > > is there a way to use these virtual machines with Fedora as host OS? Yes. There is a free-to-use version of VMware Workstation for Fedora. Check the VMware web page. You

Re: Migrating an existing system with a different OS

2017-05-31 Thread Rick Leir
Walter, Yes (I am almost certain, but you need to try it and see). For free or with a budget? I assume free. You are familiar with VMware so you will want to stick with that. An alternative would be KVM. You will want to install the VMware host software ESXi, I think it is free. The online

Migrating an existing system with a different OS

2017-05-31 Thread Walter H.
Hello, I'm using Windows with several virtual machines (VMware); is there a way to use these virtual machines with Fedora as host OS? Thanks, Walter ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lis

Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-31 Thread Rick Leir
Bill, Power supplies can fail at any time, and they are less reliable than any other parts in my PC's. PC's are more reliable if you leave them on, configured to go into sleep mode when left unused (this statement will spark a discussion). Most spinning disk drives these days support smartd