FC3 PPC development tree / installing FC3 on ibook2001 + B&W PowerMacG3
by Markus Nicolussi
Hello!
i sucked the ppc-devel-tree to my hd, set u a NFS server for the downloaded
files and burned boot.iso (both, from the dirs "mac" and "pseries"). The
"mac" boot cd booted but it found no network device, and i don't know how to
set up the module-parameters which it's maybe requesting... The "pseries"
boot cd din't do anything. What does the "p" in pseries mean? Performa or
PowerMac?
all i know i took from the HOWTO at
http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/ibook/fedorappc.html
I couldn't by all efforts find more about this topic in the net...
in this HOWTO it says that one schould use the "sungem" driver for the
internal network device, but this doesn't help (maybe this tip applies only
for ibookG4s?)
Does anybody have experience with this topic and could give me a hint?
Thanks in advance
caio, nico.
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19 years, 5 months
Re: Yum update error message
by Luya Tshimbalanga
I suggest to find the mirror repositoru close to your location. You can find them at the download--> mirror link of official Fedora website.
Luya
----- Original Message -----
From: Elaine Normandy <fiveacres(a)stardel.com>
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases <fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
Subject: Yum update error message
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 12:48:18 -0700
>
>
> I am running a clean install of Fedora Core 3 RC5, and would like
> assistance on getting yum update to work. My current error message is
>
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up Repo: base
> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base
>
> (FC3RC5 is very slick, by the way. I am impressed.)
>
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19 years, 5 months
Re: Totem not playing DVD's
by Lee Connell
On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 16:29, Lee Connell wrote:
>I installed Totem via yum, I also installed libdvdcss from rpm.pbone.net
>and I still can't play dvd's, it complains that I don't have the
>appropriate plugins available, has anyone gotten totem to work? Any ideas
>to help me get it working as I'm excited that fedora/redhat finally added a
>dvd/media player to the distro.
Thanks guys for the response I will give it a go after work. Would be
really nice if the required plugins were available for download when FC3 is
released. How bout another quick questions: MP3 support, what is needed to
be able to play MP3's since this is an identical issue with playing DVD's.
Lee
19 years, 5 months
up2date --help
by Folke Lemaitre
up2date --help is STILL BROKEN
Submitted a bug report, mentioned it on this list, but nobody seems to care.
Or am I the only person having this problem?
Please try to reproduce it...
This one has a huge user experience value.
up2date --help gives me a traceback...
Can easily be fixed by changing file to filed in /usr/sbin/up2date line 89
19 years, 5 months
Gnome and geometry flags FC3 changes from FC2
by Tom Mitchell
I have a launcher to launch gnome-terminal with a specific
geometry on FC2 that works thus:
gnome-terminal -geometry=80x34
Moving things to FC3rc3 the geometry flag seems to be changed
to the double dash style -- flag thus:
gnome-terminal --geometry=80x34
Did I miss something? Is this only gnome-terminal?
This could be a moderately large change if it is more than
gnome-terminal? Off to review release notes I guess.
It is consistent with lots of things so I am not avert to the change
just surprised or I have been sleeping...
Later,
tom
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19 years, 5 months
handy iso upgrade rsync script
by Salane KIng
rsync usually will speed up the upgrading of iso files from one to another.
Since the test iso does'nt change their name here is a small script to help
the community.
#!/bin/sh
rsync -av --progress --partial --stats
sunsite.mff.cuni.cz::ftp/OS/Linux/Dist/Fedora.RC/3/i386/iso/FC3-i386-disc* /directory
of isos
the rsync line here is smart wrapped and should be on one line in your command
or bash script file.
here is my output of this command which is saved as the file "iso"
sh iso
SunSITE.MFF.CUni.CZ 2TB archive
receiving file list ...
4 files to consider
FC3-i386-disc1.iso
647069696 100% 628.29kB/s 0:16:45 (1, 25.0% of 4)
FC3-i386-disc2.iso
668514304 100% 1.25MB/s 0:08:31 (2, 50.0% of 4)
FC3-i386-disc3.iso
667525120 100% 1016.03kB/s 0:10:41 (3, 75.0% of 4)
FC3-i386-disc4.iso
398049280 100% 884.90kB/s 0:07:19 (4, 100.0% of 4)
Number of files: 4
Number of files transferred: 4
Total file size: 2381158400 bytes
Total transferred file size: 2381158400 bytes
Literal data: 371155464 bytes
Matched data: 2010002936 bytes
File list size: 101
Total bytes sent: 583981
Total bytes received: 371529134
sent 583981 bytes received 371529134 bytes 136130.64 bytes/sec
total size is 2381158400 speedup is 6.40
19 years, 6 months
Re: Should Fedora rpms be signed?
by Jef Spaleta
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 13:47:32 -0600 (CST), Satish Balay <balay(a)fastmail.fm> wrote:
> But unless you are saing: somehow the current non-gpg-signed packages
> are preventing such folks from doing the wrong things (listed above) -
> and 'gpg-singing' encourages them to do them - your text adds no
> substance to the discussion.
Fine ill repeat myself...again.
Yes... i firmly believe...that long term... as tools become more
signature aware and tools become more demanding that signatures be
present on consumable rpms, that signing throw away packages like
rawhide packages encourages people to use those packages out of
context, and encourages people to store individual rawhide packages
for later use on other systems, instead of encouraging people to using
a full rawhide collection.
We can argue about the techical definition of what gpg-signing
means...as originally conceived in the pgp/gpg methodogy, but is a
pointless thing to discuss... in the context of rpm package signing.
rpm package signing is NOT a full implementation of a gpg/pgp signing
system. rpm's lack of understanding of what a signed key is, greatly
impacts "trust"
as a quantifiable concept..and automatically elevates all signd
packages to the same "trust" status. Whereas mature general use
gpg/pgp implementations know what a sign signature means, and how to
calculate "trust" from signatures on keys. If you trust me, and i sign
someone elses key, that key earns a measure of trust from my
signature. gnupg understands this concept of the web of trust.. rpm
does not...that is significant in the context of how rpm package
sining has been used so far. Because there is a lack of trust metric
in rpm's implementation, packaging signing..by vendors..has
historically meant more than prescribed by a general gpg methodology
definition of signing. This isn't a matter of one or two really
really stupid users doing something really really stupid. This is a
matter of common peception as to what signing a package means, and
what vendors has historically wanted people to think signing a package
means... in the context of rpm's implementation of signing and not in
the context of gnupg's or pgp's general purpose implementation. And I
argue that historically... rpm package signing has meant more than
"built on this host" and that many vendors including Red Hat have
meant it to mean more than "built on this host." And i will argue
that until rpm get support for the trust metric concept using signed
keys, signing rawhide packages encourages people to "trust" rawhide
packages. Where "trust" is a quantifiable measurement based on key
signatures.
-jef
19 years, 6 months
Totem not playing DVD's
by Lee Connell
I installed Totem via yum, I also installed libdvdcss from rpm.pbone.net and
I still can't play dvd's, it complains that I don't have the appropriate
plugins available, has anyone gotten totem to work? Any ideas to help me
get it working as I'm excited that fedora/redhat finally added a dvd/media
player to the distro.
Lee
19 years, 6 months
What is up with ark ?
by Kim Lux
Should ark be able to open a .bz2 file ?
Is it just me or is ark seriously broken ?
Was fileroller the default compress/uncompress utility in FC2 ? When
did ark become the tool ?
What is the package name for fileroller ?
19 years, 6 months