Re: F42 live hangs at boot

On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 21:12 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > I burned a DVD. > cmp says the DVD is good. > Test and boot fails. > Boot without testing succeeds so far as I can tell. > Not sure whether installing from it is a good idea. The last time I installed Fedora (40, I think) I had to use th

Re: how to boot from USB on an HP EliteBook

Mash ESC at boot, it should get you into the bios. Then set the boot delay. On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > > On Mon, 12 May 2025, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > I also have an HP EliteBook 840 G3 laptop > > that currently has Windows 1

how to boot from USB on an HP EliteBook

On Mon, 12 May 2025, Michael Hennebry wrote: I also have an HP EliteBook 840 G3 laptop that currently has Windows 10 and F39. I'd been hoping to install F42 on both machines the same way. The laptop has no DVD drive. Alas, I no longer have any idea how I got F39 onto the laptop. It no longer bo

Re: F42 live hangs at boot

On Mon, 12 May 2025, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 12 May 2025, George N. White III wrote: See: The 3 should be a 2. That seems to imply that the solution is for me to build an install medium with a recent kernel or to wait for

Re: Fedora 41 to 42 upgrade

On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM Emmett Culley via users wrote: > > Does anyone know if the /usr/bin /usr/sbin snafu has been fixed in the latest > Fedora 42 repo? > > I am referring to the issue that messes with access to things like postfix's > sendmail via symlink. I don't know if it has been

Re: F42 live hangs at boot

On Mon, 12 May 2025, George N. White III wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 2:04?AM Michael Hennebry < HP Compaq dc5800 . Bought it used. One of the stickers mentions Vista. It will boot from USB. Once upon a time, I installed F39 on an SD card using a USB adapter. It will still boot from that card

Fedora 41 to 42 upgrade

Does anyone know if the /usr/bin /usr/sbin snafu has been fixed in the latest Fedora 42 repo? I am referring to the issue that messes with access to things like postfix's sendmail via symlink. Emmett -- Evolution as taught in public schools is science. No faith required. --

Re: F42 Server Installer problems

> On 12 May 2025, at 13:02, Robert McBroom via users > wrote: > > New system with 1.2T drive. Has Windows 11 on it. Split the drive with the > windows manager for 1.2T free space. The numbers do not make sense. That would leave no space used by windows. You need to tell windows to SHRINK it

Re: F42 Server Installer problems

On 5/12/25 9:02 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 08:01 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote: New system with 1.2T drive. Has Windows 11 on it. Split the drive with the windows manager for 1.2T free space. Trying to put f42 server on the free space. The installer options for cust

Re: F42 live hangs at boot

On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > On Sat, 10 May 2025, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > What kind of computer are you trying to boot on and how old? I've had > issues > > with older devices and USB. One in particular I had to burn a DVD to > > in

Re: F42 Server Installer problems

On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 08:01 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > New system with 1.2T drive. Has Windows 11 on it. Split the drive with > the windows manager for 1.2T free space. > > Trying to put f42 server on the free space. The installer options for > custom install won't enable. Only the

F42 Server Installer problems

New system with 1.2T drive. Has Windows 11 on it. Split the drive with the windows manager for 1.2T free space. Trying to put f42 server on the free space. The installer options for custom install won't enable. Only the automatic choice. Would typically make three partitions boot,root and home