Re: hp - windows media creation tool

2023-04-29 Thread Kam Leo
t; ps.. Now to get hp to lower their prices! > > On Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 11:22 AM Kam Leo wrote: > > > > Your laptop should have a hidden partition that contains the OS recovery > data. What you want is the app to create a media recovery disk. The app > should be in the HP fold

Re: hp - windows media creation tool

2023-04-29 Thread Kam Leo
Your laptop should have a hidden partition that contains the OS recovery data. What you want is the app to create a media recovery disk. The app should be in the HP folder. On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 10:39 AM Luna Jernberg wrote: > -- Forwarded message - > From: bruce > Date: Fri,

Re: font longevity questions.

2022-05-10 Thread Kam Leo
Why not convert your files to PDF? You can embed all your fonts in each document and maintain your formatting, .i.e. the "look and feel".. On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 8:21 AM home user wrote: > Good morning, > > I have about 240 microsoft office word 2010 documents, all 9+ years old, > that I'm conv

Re: How do I de-blur a picture?

2019-07-23 Thread Kam Leo
Just asking, have you tried the tools in GIMP? On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 7:56 AM George N. White III wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 06:05, ToddAndMargo via users < > users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Fedora 30, x64 >> >> Anyone know of a way to remove the blur from this pic

Re: OT - Antivirus clean up USB

2019-05-26 Thread Kam Leo
Many moons ago, I used a collection of utilities for PCs issued under the banner of "Hiren's Boot CD". I believe the utilities were later made available for operation from a USB device. Do a web search to see if the collection is still available. On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 12:30 AM Tim via users < us

Re: downloading ALL Packages of a fedora release.

2018-01-14 Thread Kam Leo
Have you considered using wget?. On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 10:29 AM, JD wrote: > > > On 01/14/2018 10:52 AM, David King wrote: > >> On 01/14/2018 12:31 PM, JD wrote: >> >>> In my current situation, I would NEED to be >>> able to download all the Packages, save >>> them all on a thumb drive, and ma

Re: Problem with my home network

2017-04-24 Thread Kam Leo
Hi, I don't know how you setup your AIO printer. What I do is assign a fixed/permanent IP address for the printer that is outside of address range for the DHCP server function of the router. If your router auto-assigns addresses in the the range of 192.168.1.100 through 192.168.1.255, set your prin

Re: VMware Workstation vs KVM

2017-01-17 Thread Kam Leo
Why are you expecting stability when the host OS you are using is betaware? Use CentOS as your host OS and you might get better results. On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 8:01 AM, ProPAAS DBA wrote: > Hi All; > > > I'm running Fedora 25 on a laptop with 16GB of ram. I'm frustrated with > the VMware workst

Re: Very SLOW system update

2015-09-12 Thread Kam Leo
Found this answer at https://ask.fedoraproject.org : "dnf includes fastestmirror functionality in standard package (no plugin needed). You just need to enable it in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf by setting fastestmirror=1. It is disabled by default (man dnf.conf

Re: iso fedora 22

2015-09-04 Thread Kam Leo
1. Google search: "Fedora 22 Iso" 2. Found: https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/ Get both Live and Netinstall images from there. On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 6:19 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > Can I found the image: > Fedora-Workstation-22-x86_64.iso > > not the Live version > not

Re: VMWare

2015-07-04 Thread Kam Leo
I neglected to mention in the previous post that VmWare does not allow a 64-bit guest to run on a 32-bit host. On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Kam Leo wrote: > Check to see if your CPU has the necessary VT support features. Read this > article, Hardware and firmware requirements for

Re: VMWare

2015-07-04 Thread Kam Leo
processor is VT-capable. On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Nikkita Miles wrote: > Kam > > I downloaded the VMware software however when I tried to load the *.iso > file for Fedora I received an error. Will VMWare accept Fedora 64-bit file > for Windows 7? > > Nikkita > &g

Re: Fedora download and application

2015-07-04 Thread Kam Leo
Most first timers don't need to nuke their Windows installation, mess with re-sizing a hard drive, or hassle with dual booting. Most laptops and PCs are capable of running Fedora or any other OS in a virtual environment. Get and install the windows version of VirtualBox, VmWare Workstation or VmWa

Re: Wrong Screen Resolution after uninstalling nvidia packages from rpmfusion

2014-09-30 Thread Kam Leo
jd1008, have you tried creating a custom resolution? This ArchWiki page, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xrandr , shows the steps required. On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 10/01/14 07:06, jd1008 wrote: > > Should I build an Xorg.conf, based on this info? > > Also...

Re: how to clear YouTube ghost imagery from display without logging out

2013-11-15 Thread Kam Leo
What you experience is also known as "image persistence" or "CRT/screen burn-in". On a CRT I'm not aware of any fix. For an LCD display one recommendation is use a screen saver to alternate between an all white and all black image. If necessary use GIMP to create your images. You could also open up

Re: Gdm removed when sugar WM removed

2011-10-23 Thread Kam Leo
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sunday 23 October 2011 19:17:54 Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 10/23/2011 07:20 AM, antonio montagnani wrote: >> > A simple solution would be not disinstall GDM by default in any WM group >> > disinstallation: I guess that many people want to tr

Re: HP LaserJet P2055dn: Margins are not being respected

2011-09-12 Thread Kam Leo
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > Hello Everyone, >     Just recently my HP LaserJet P2055dn has started printing > everything as close to the top of the page as possible.  Everything else > on the page looks normal.  The documents that I have been using to test > this iss

Re: F15 Upgrade kernel won't run.

2011-08-28 Thread Kam Leo
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/28/2011 08:45 PM, Kam Leo wrote: >> By the way, the requirement for a larger /boot partition came about >> because files for preupgrade need to be stored there. It was a new >> requirement; one that the program should/

Re: Upgrading via DVD iso on a USB storage device.

2011-08-28 Thread Kam Leo
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 12:01 -0600, linux guy wrote: >> I want to upgrade from F14 to F15.  For whatever reason, the boot >> after running preupgrade fails if I try to do it that way. >> >> So now I would like to upgrade via the DVD iso. >> >>

Re: F15 Upgrade kernel won't run.

2011-08-28 Thread Kam Leo
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/28/2011 09:26 AM, Kam Leo wrote: >> You just gave an example of where preupgrade failed. It's amazing how >> people forget shortcomings in the program. > > So you consider it a failure of preupgrade if the targe

Re: F15 Upgrade kernel won't run.

2011-08-28 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/27/2011 08:46 PM, linux guy wrote: >> I used to upgrade that way.   I did miss the memo. > > So did I.  The first time I used it was to go from F9 to F11 (I skipped > F10 because it had so many install problems.) on my desktop.  Since > then

Re: F15 Upgrade kernel won't run.

2011-08-27 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:55 AM, linux guy wrote: > Commenting those lines out causes the F14 (non upgrade) kernel to run, > thus preventing the upgrade from completing.  Which is what I am > trying to achieve. > > In  case its been missed, I'm trying to upgrade from F14 to F15. > In case you mi

Re: Can keys off the numpad be configured for different functions based on NumLock?

2011-08-26 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I would like to configure some keys to have dual functions, such as > hjkl for the arrows and sdf for cut/copy/paste. Can the alphanumeric > keys be configured for different functions based on NumLock on/off? > This is the xev output for the nu

Re: error software update on a new installation

2011-08-16 Thread Kam Leo
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Peter Klaassen wrote: > I am an Ubuntu user and now testing Fedora. > I have 360+ updates of software after installation. > But I get the following error. > > could not add package update for fedora-release-rawhide-15-3(noarch)updates: > fedora-release-rawhide-15-3

Re: help needed on patitionning

2011-08-06 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Adam Tong wrote: > Hi, > > I cannot install fedora 15 in my new laptop. > > the laptop is preinstalled with win7 family edition. > > Had only one partition created a new one with a free win software "Minitool > partition wizard home edition". > > At the time of pa

Re: Power Outage, USB drive not mounting

2011-08-01 Thread Kam Leo
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:42:12 -0400 > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> Server is FC12 >> USB drive is EXT4 and labeled 2GHJTCB4 > > What does /var/log/messages say when you plug it in? > Another question: Have you verified that the USB port is still

Re: Obsolete RPMs

2011-06-28 Thread Kam Leo
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Dave Cross wrote: > I've upgraded a couple of systems from F14 to F15 using preupgrade. > Everything seems to have gone fine. > > I'm slowly getting used to GNOME 3 and I'm sure that it will make > sense to me one day. > > But it strikes me that there will now be a

Re: backup copy of F14 boots, but can't login

2011-06-27 Thread Kam Leo
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:41 PM, jackson byers wrote: > My backup copy of F14 boots, all looks normal, >  boot messages all "OK" > but then I can't login:  after entering my password > the screen recycles to the login screen, > and continues to do this if I keep trying. > [byers@f14 ~]$ uname -r >

Re: more serial port troubles

2011-06-24 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Mike Wright writes: > >> Sunday I'll go buy two connectors and wire my own 3-wire null modem >> cable: ground, tx, rx. > > With that, you have to turn hardware flow control off. > > I would also recomment crossing DTR with DSR and CTS, to g

Re: RPMfusion repository will not download

2011-06-21 Thread Kam Leo
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Lawrence E Graves wrote: > I am unable to install the rpmfusion repos. Please advise. > Error message says it cannot connect. 1. Do you mean that you cannot download the rpmfusion configuration file from http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration/? or 2. Yum fails to conn

Re: fedora 12 and no GUI

2011-06-15 Thread Kam Leo
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:01 AM, gary clark wrote: > The problem was lack of RAM I only has 256 increased to 1G and all is good. Many old boxes have been / are / will be headed to the scrape pile because of memory limitations. You are lucky that you can add memory. Good luck with F12 but don't e

Re: fedora 12 and no GUI

2011-06-14 Thread Kam Leo
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:11 PM, gary clark wrote: > Hi, > > There is no gdm file or gdm-password file in this /etc/pam.d directory? > My installations have moved beyond F12 so I don't have an unaltered system to help you troubleshoot your problem. However, if you do an internet search for "root

Re: ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:

2011-06-14 Thread Kam Leo
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Reid Rivenburgh wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Rich Emberson > wrote: >> I got the following when using Yum this weekend. >> I posted the message to http://yum.baseurl.org/report but have gotten no >> response. >> >> Running rpm_check_debug >> ERROR w

Re: fedora 12 and no GUI

2011-06-14 Thread Kam Leo
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:57 PM, gary clark wrote: > Hello, > > I was was Fedora 4 and then Fedora 9 and just jumped to Fedora 12. When the > machine boots up I have only text based system to login as root. What > happened to the GUI? > > Any answers would really help? They disabled it for sec

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-13 Thread Kam Leo
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Alan Cox wrote: >> The point is, you have to match the distro to the user, not the other >> way around.  If the OP isn't happy with Fedora, I hope he finds a distro >> he likes better. > > The primary end user Linux UI is Android. In that sense the argument is > ov

Re: /etc/sysconfig/desktop (sorry not the right thread just do not read the previous message and this one)

2011-06-04 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Adam Tong wrote: > > > > > - Original Message > From: Adam Tong > To: Community support for Fedora users > Sent: Sat, June 4, 2011 1:25:34 PM > Subject: Re: /etc/sysconfig/desktop > > Hi, > > you are right. HEre the new output: > > - > # yum list ker

Re: Preupgrade and first thoughts

2011-06-03 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Kam Leo wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Mark Eggers wrote: > > --snip > >> >> Also, updates are listed twice when running yum from the command line. >> For example: >> >> ---> Package parted.i686 0:2.3-8.fc15

Re: Preupgrade and first thoughts

2011-06-03 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Mark Eggers wrote: --snip > > Also, updates are listed twice when running yum from the command line. > For example: > > ---> Package parted.i686 0:2.3-8.fc15 will be updated > ---> Package parted.i686 0:2.3-9.fc15 will be an updated Perhaps too verbose but not e

Re: Boot loader after upgrade

2011-06-02 Thread Kam Leo
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Adam Tong wrote: > Here is the result of the first command: > > # yum list kernel > Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit > Available Packages > kernel.i686 > 2.6.35.13-91.fc14                                             updates > > > So in that case

Re: Boot loader after upgrade

2011-06-02 Thread Kam Leo
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Kam Leo wrote: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Adam Tong wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The thread is very old. The problem I posted was that I had Three choices >> instead of just 2 during startup. After upgrading from fedora 13 to 14 I >&g

Re: Boot loader after upgrade

2011-06-02 Thread Kam Leo
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Adam Tong wrote: > Hi, > > The thread is very old. The problem I posted was that I had Three choices > instead of just 2 during startup. After upgrading from fedora 13 to 14 I found > that I have fedora 14 and Fedora 13, in addition to other (i have a win > partitio

Re: name of java rpm? jre native fedora java

2011-05-31 Thread Kam Leo
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/01/2011 09:43 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> Oh, forgot to add >> >> What you really want is to do >> >> yum whatprovides *bin/java >> >> Ed > > Oh, and I think I was mistaken with my first answeras I didn't do > what I said you shou

Re: F15 - 640MB RAM Requirement Issue

2011-05-28 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/28/2011 01:22 PM, Kam Leo wrote: >> It's a trade-off. If you have a fast internet connection but a slow >> processor you might actually be better off downloading the full rpm >> instead of waiting for your proc

Re: F15 - 640MB RAM Requirement Issue

2011-05-28 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/28/2011 07:30 AM, Freak Trick wrote: >> Thanks! For the reply. But yum itself is horribly slow on F15 beta. > > This may not help now, but you should install the presto and > fastest-mirror plugins for yum.  Presto only downloads delta-rpms

Re: F14->F15 preupgrade fails

2011-05-25 Thread Kam Leo
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 10:32 +0930, Tim wrote: >> On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 17:22 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> > Big flamewar in Bugzilla: minimum install requirements for F15 >> > are, depending on who claims it, either 768mb or 1gb of

Re: Fedora 15 installer needs more than 512MB RAM

2011-05-25 Thread Kam Leo
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 05/26/2011 06:49 AM, Tim wrote: >> On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 05:51 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>> I would say, the average Fedora user has anywhere between 1 GB >>> and 4 GB of RAM and with every release,  the amount of people using >>> sys

Re: Fedora 15 installer needs more than 512MB RAM

2011-05-25 Thread Kam Leo
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 05/26/2011 02:46 AM, Kam Leo wrote: >> After reading the bug report I can only shake my head. >> >> 1. The problem was known at least a month before the release date. > > Yes.  As noted in the bug report,  a

Re: Fedora 15 installer needs more than 512MB RAM

2011-05-25 Thread Kam Leo
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Mike Williams wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> >> On 05/25/2011 10:44 AM, Kam Leo wrote: >> > It seems that the installer files >> > have gotten fatter and more memory is required. >> >

Fedora 15 installer needs more than 512MB RAM

2011-05-25 Thread Kam Leo
I tried upgrading my system using the DVD, Netinstall CD, and Preupgrade. Each time boot got stuck at the line "Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs. . . ". It seems that the installer files have gotten fatter and more memory is required. This is a known problem, http://fossplanet.com/f13/fe

Re: F14 install freezes due to disk problems

2011-05-14 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/14/2011 01:18 PM, Lewis NH2 wrote: > > Do you have any idea where to look at or what I can do? > > Try the Fedora full install DVD. If your computer doesn't have a DVD > drive download the CD set. (I think it fits on 6 CDs now, but you'll

Re: Fedora 14, 15 , No Video using Geforce 8400GS

2011-05-11 Thread Kam Leo
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:53 PM, james tate wrote: > Fedora 14 or 15 using a GeForce 8400GS on a Live cd, X won't start. > > Is this card a problem with the Nouveau driver ? > > How much RAM is installed on the system? You should have at least 256MB, preferably 512MB. -- users mailing list use

Re: Problems with Some MP3s in Rhythmbox

2011-03-30 Thread Kam Leo
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Dave Cross wrote: > On 29 March 2011 18:49, Richard Shaw wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > >> 3. Also, the codecs you're using aren't part of Fedora, since Fedora > >> has intellectual property issues with ugly codecs, so you might

Re: Separate /usr partition

2011-03-10 Thread Kam Leo
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Kam Leo wrote: > > > > It probably has less to do with the boot process and more with disto > > upgrading; i.e. less likely that user files get clobbered if /usr is > > separate. > > Nope. It has ev

Re: Separate /usr partition

2011-03-10 Thread Kam Leo
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: > I just noticed that ever since Fedora 11 the Installation Guide > recommends against having a /usr partition separate from the root file > system (though as recently as Fedora 12 the Example Usage still showed a > separate /usr). I've always

Re: fc14 upgrade fails, system now in partially-upgraded state...

2011-03-07 Thread Kam Leo
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I started an upgrade from fc13 x86_64 to fc14 x86_64, and the computer > locked up during the install. I thought the problem with the PC was > that it was locking up due to insufficient memory. I've added more > memory, but now the upgrade wo

Re: Problems with yum.repos.d

2011-02-16 Thread Kam Leo
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Kam Leo wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > >> On 02/16/2011 07:19 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> > On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 19:54 -0500, Jim wrote: >> >> F14 >> >> >> >&g

Re: Problems with yum.repos.d

2011-02-16 Thread Kam Leo
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > On 02/16/2011 07:19 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 19:54 -0500, Jim wrote: > >> F14 > >> > >> What is is wrong with this repos ? > >> > >> [playonlinux] > >> name=PlayOnLinux Official repository > >> baseurl=http://rp

Re: mp3 libraries for f14

2011-01-17 Thread Kam Leo
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 01/18/2011 12:20 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 01/17/2011 08:37 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 23:40:14 -0800, > >> Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >>> What do I install to get mp3 support for things like k

Re: Printing directly on DVD

2011-01-08 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Temlakos wrote: > On 01/08/2011 05:23 PM, Kam Leo wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> On Friday, January 07, 2011 08:04:30 pm Tom Horsley wrote: >> > I make no guarantees, I've only tried it on my

Re: Printing directly on DVD

2011-01-08 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, January 07, 2011 08:04:30 pm Tom Horsley wrote: > > I make no guarantees, I've only tried it on my C5580, but it has > > worked OK through several updates of hplip now, so things may have > > stabilized. > > This is nice. Now to try

Re: Printing directly on DVD

2011-01-07 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Alan Evans wrote: > Does anybody know how to print directly onto printable DVD media? I > have a HP printer with a tray specifically for holding the media. I've > tried everything I can think to actually print onto the disk. > > I've tried various-sized images in G

Re: recursively count the words occurrence in the text files

2010-12-31 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Thursday 30 December 2010 23:35:43 Bob McGowan wrote: > > On 12/30/2010 03:17 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: > > > On 12/30/2010 12:34 PM, S Mathias wrote: > > >> I just can't google for it: > > >> > > >> I'm searching for a "bash" "one line

Re: Change m...@every boot

2010-12-19 Thread Kam Leo
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 04:24:20 -0800 (PST) > S Mathias wrote: > > > Where should i put my script? > > Most stuff that you want to run at every boot can go into /etc/rc.local > > "rc.local" is the last script to be executed so placing the script th

Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition

2010-12-10 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Joachim Backes < joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote: > Hi, > > having the following question: sometimes it happens that after an > upgrade of a Fedora-x to a Fedora-y, the Fedora-y does not run correctly > (there may be a lot of reasons for this...). So going ba

Re: can't download fedora 64bit dvd iso file

2010-12-09 Thread Kam Leo
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > Dan, > > You could try using the "meat" of that link without the prefix: > > > http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-14-x86_64-DVD.iso > > which will actually initiate an FTP downloa

Re: F12 installation problem (wasRe: iso dvd)

2010-12-04 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Adil Adil writes: > > Hi, >> >> I burned the dvd as image with nero. >> > >> He re is the error message: >> >> /sbin/load_policy: error while loading shared libraries: >> /lib/libselinux.so.1: cannot read file data: Input/output error. >>

Re: Fedora-14-i386-dvd.iso, file corrupted

2010-11-14 Thread Kam Leo
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Vincent wrote: > Here is the result of the test. > > [vi...@vinny ~]$ cd Downloads > Show what files are in Downloads. Do an "ls -la". > [vi...@vinny Downloads]$ cd Fedora-14-i386-DVD > Repeat "ls -la" here. > [vi...@vinny Fedora-14-i386-DVD]$ sha256sum -c

Re: missing packages

2010-11-13 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:11 PM, JD wrote: > On 11/13/2010 11:48 AM, fred smith wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:56:31AM -0800, JD wrote: > >> yum check > >> reports missing packages. > >> Is there a way to yum install missing packages > >> without having to specify their names? > > I suppo

Re: Preupgrade with multiboot: can't find right target

2010-11-12 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:33 PM, John Pilkington wrote: > On 12/11/10 22:11, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > > > I don't think a preupgrade which skips three releases (10->14) is > > supported. Single upgrades (10->11, 11->12, 12->13, 13->14) generally > > work, but skipping intermediate stages is

Re: OT: vexing hw issue

2010-11-12 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: > I want to make a new Fedora box so I used an existing case and put into it > a > new ASUS motherboard and a dual core low power CPU (an AM2+) and 1 gig of > RAM > (512x2) and a new 450 watt power supply. The only front panel connection is > f

Re: Background task to download FC14 isos

2010-11-12 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Kam Leo wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Kam Leo wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Andras Simon wrote: >> >>> On 11/12/10, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> >>> > So I tried: >>

Re: Background task to download FC14 isos

2010-11-12 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Kam Leo wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Andras Simon wrote: > >> On 11/12/10, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >> > So I tried: >> > >> > wget -b -nv -r -l1 --no-parent -nH --cut-dirs=6 -A "disc?.iso&

Re: Background task to download FC14 isos

2010-11-12 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Andras Simon wrote: > On 11/12/10, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > So I tried: > > > > wget -b -nv -r -l1 --no-parent -nH --cut-dirs=6 -A "disc?.iso" > > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/14/Fedora/i386/iso/ > > > > and this only got the index.txt file > >

Re: F14 disc labels

2010-11-10 Thread Kam Leo
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > Someone went to a LOT of trouble creating CD and DVD label images for > Fedora 14 (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/MediaArt/F14). > Unfortunately the CD/DVD label blanks I use are Avery 5697. These appear > to have the same di

Re: serial8250: too much work for irq 19

2010-09-19 Thread Kam Leo
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > I installed F13 on my Dad's computer last night and ran into this > issue. The install itself went perfectly. I'm not sure what's > different between what services get run during install and regular > startup, but I can boot to the recovery o

Re: Can't tell which hard drive to install Fedora 13 OS to.

2010-09-17 Thread Kam Leo
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:56 PM, wrote: > Hi all, > > I am using a laptop with two hard drives in it, one which has Windows > Vista installed on it, and another physical drive which is a Data drive, > each of them are 150 GB in capacity. I wanted to convert my Data drive > into a disk that has

Re: F12 updates having a slow week?

2010-07-07 Thread Kam Leo
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Steve Blackwell wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 17:42:52 +0900 > Joel Rees wrote: > >> Yesterday, and, I think, the day before, yum update said no updates. >> >> The day before that, and today, less than 10 MB, when I'm accustomed >> to 60M or 120M or so. >> >> Slow we

Re: Help me troubleshoot this problem

2010-07-05 Thread Kam Leo
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:08 PM, JD wrote: >  On 07/05/2010 07:28 PM, awrobinson...@nc.rr.com wrote: >> JD  wrote: >>>    On 07/05/2010 06:44 PM, awrobinson...@nc.rr.com wrote: Rick Sewill   wrote: > On 07/05/2010 06:15 PM, awrobinson...@nc.rr.com wrote: >> Geoffrey Leac

Re: Help me troubleshoot this problem

2010-07-05 Thread Kam Leo
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:15 PM, wrote: > > Geoffrey Leach wrote: >> On 07/05/2010 03:28:20 PM, awrobinson...@nc.rr.com wrote: >> > >> > Geoffrey Leach wrote: >> > > On 07/05/2010 01:27:01 PM, awrobinson...@nc.rr.com wrote: >> > > > I am trying to install Fedora on a PC I built. I had

Re: Locking Network printer to 12.168.1.99

2010-07-03 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Jim wrote: > On 07/03/2010 02:30 PM, Greg Woods wrote: >> On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 14:19 -0400, Jim wrote: >> >> >>> Everytime I turn the printer off, then on Router DHCP will reassign >>> 1.100 or 101. >>> >> >> This has to be set in the router's configuration. Most r

Re: [SOLVED] Re: need other mirror fot F12->F13 preupgrade

2010-07-03 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: > Quoting JD : > >>   On 07/03/2010 11:58 AM, Dave Stevens wrote: >>> I am trying to preupgrade F12 x86_64 to F13. My installer tries to use >>> ftp://ftp.nrc.ca/pub/systems/linux/redhat/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/install.i

Re: Locking Network printer to 12.168.1.99

2010-07-03 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Frank Cox wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 14:19 -0400, Jim wrote: >> How would I lock the IP address of my Network Printer, Device URI: >> lpd://192.168.1.99/PASSTHRU   , so a Linksys WRT54GL router wouldn't >> change it. > > Most routers have a setting somewhere

Re: How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

2010-06-24 Thread Kam Leo
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 09:35 +0100, John Austin wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 02:06 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: >> > I'm moving /, /boot and swap from a conventional hard drive to an SSD. >> > >> > Both drives are 160 GB in size. >> > >> > >> I

Re: bad HD sectors

2010-06-19 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Peter Langfelder wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:04 PM, JD wrote: >> > >> Well, I am not actively using the disk. Too risky. >> I am trying to find out if there is reasonable doubt >> as to what the smartd is reporting as if the are recent >> errors. >> At this

Re: Restart F-13 download?

2010-06-17 Thread Kam Leo
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Bob Goodwin wrote: >>    I downloaded about 600 megs of Fedora-13-i386-DVD.iso starting from >>    http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-all  and a thunderstorm came >>    along and blocked my path to the satellite.

Re:

2010-06-07 Thread Kam Leo
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Sateesh kumarb wrote: > > I Am Sateesh, >   Please Help me, How to install Fedora Inside Windows7 For Dual booting. >    I have an fedora cd But can't Boot. First step is to get into your BIOS (press DELETE, F!, etc. during boot) and set up device boot order such t

Re: F13 - goodnewws and bad news

2010-06-04 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 15:42 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> 2. For more than 15 years I have found that the GUI partition >> installer hard to use and in F13 it is even more impossible to use. >> This is mainly  because the various options are hard to di

Re: Who sees massive flickering?

2010-06-01 Thread Kam Leo
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 17:03:00 -0400 > Tom Horsley wrote: > >> (I'm pretty sure this is new with the move to fedora 13, >> I don't think I saw it on fedora 12 - not that bad anyway). > > Yep. I just briefly booted back to fedora 12. Same hardware,

Re: Fedora 13 Installation frustrations

2010-05-26 Thread Kam Leo
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > > I had to let you know how I passed a night of no sleep to install Fedora13. > > My Configuration. > disk hd0,  XP on 1st half,  Fedora12 on second. > Disk hd1  W7 on 1st half,  storage (fat32) on second half > > CPU memory 4 gigs, ATI

Re: Installing Linux on sdb ??

2010-04-19 Thread Kam Leo
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Jim wrote: > On 04/19/2010 06:16 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>> Cut to the chase: install Windows first. It will probably want to install >>> itself on the /dev/sda1 partition. >>> >> Actually sda1 and 2 by default... >> > But can Windows 7 be installed on sdb1 a

Re: "No more mirrors are available" popup box

2010-03-21 Thread Kam Leo
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Gregory Hosler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/22/2010 12:13 AM, Adalbert Prokop wrote: >> Am 18.03.2010 14:10, schrieb Gregory Hosler: >> >> Hi! >> >>> I have a local repository configured in my yum repos, so this >>> applet/de

Re: Sorbet on Fedora's future

2010-03-20 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: > For a while, I've been arguing with very knowledgeable people here > that there are way too many bugs in Fedora, bugs that either hinder a > pleasant user experience or plainly break systems to the point that > one wonders if he's not being h

Re: Changing the DHCP address of a machine on my Local LAN

2010-03-06 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > I have a LAN at home of 4 machines. Up to yesterday all of them were > getting their ip addresses from the DSL router I have at home. Suddenly > one of the machines (an F12 machine) began to use ATT's DHCP server to > get its ip address. > >

Re: RLIMIT_DATA problem: NOTABUG?

2010-03-05 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote: > I tried to prevent buggy programs from bringing my system to a halt by > setting an RLIMIT_DATA with "ulimit -d", but I discovered that the limit > has no effect due to a glibc behavior.  I reported this as a bug: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.

Re: Update broke network

2010-03-05 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >     Hello, > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Mr Gabriel wrote: >> Was the kernel updated? Maybe rollback to your previous kernel, and then do >> a yum update. > >  I updated to a new kernel, but I am still using an old one (from a >

Re: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder For Fedora version 9

2010-02-24 Thread Kam Leo
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:51 AM, AnneMarie Robinson wrote: > Where do I find MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder? How do I install it? > Thanks. > > Get the fluendo mp3 decoder at http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-mp3-decoder/ Installation information is available at http://fedoraproject.or

Re: Help Diagnose Slow Disc Access

2010-02-23 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Mike McCarty wrote: > Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: [snip] > I downloaded said software, and burnt a CD-ROM. I ran the diagnostics > on both discs (both are WDs, but of different sizes). The smaller > one passed both a "quick" test, and an "extended" full surfa

Re: F12: Yum/Software Update hangs

2010-02-21 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 02/20/2010 08:44 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> --- On Sat, 2/20/10, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> >> >>> Seems to me, that Yum/Software Update programs >>> hangs from time to time. >>> >>> With Yum, a remote connection would sometimes ha

Re: yum/kernel download problem ?!?

2010-02-21 Thread Kam Leo
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 7:34 AM, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > I have had this problem since last Tues. > It is similar to some reported here but not exactly the same, it seems > to me.  So if anyone has suggestions, please feel free to advise me. > > ]$ uname -r > 2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.x86_64 >

Re: looking for motherboard recommendation

2010-02-13 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Danny Yee wrote: > You're right, and if I were just fixing my existing system I would buy > expansion cards - though the motherboard I have doesn't have that many > slots, so getting both a video card and a sound card onto it is only > just possible. That is a lim

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