Expired Releases
by Will H. Backman
Problem: Release gets expired, but admin doesn't change the repository
for updates.
Possible solution: up2date already includes a re-direct. Perhaps re-
direct to fedora legacy repositories.
Possible solution: Create a final RPM that only includes a trigger to e-
mail root and print to the screen that the current distro is no longer
updated.
Crazy talk?
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Will Backman
Coastal Enterprises, Inc.
- A computer is a device used to convert data into error messages.
19 years, 8 months
Is it Fedora or VMWare
by Jim Bevier
I have installed VMWare workstation 4.5.2 on FC3-T2 using Kernel 2.6.8-1.584
on an Athlon 64. I have been able to get everything to work, but had one
major problem along the way. I have a 30 GB ide disk on /dev/hdb that I use
for VMWare physical images. Here is the fdisk -l output:
Disk /dev/hdb: 30.0 GB, 30020272128 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3649 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 621 4988151 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hdb2 622 3649 24322410 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 622 1386 6144831 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hdb6 1387 1600 1718923+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb7 1601 3649 16458561 83 Linux
This give me 16065 sectors per cylinder and 58621185 sectors on the disk.
When I configure VMWare to use this disk for physical images it creats a
.vmdk that defines the physical disk. Here is the original .vmdk file:
# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
CID=fffffffe
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="fullDevice"
# Extent description
RW 58633344 FLAT "/dev/hdb" 0
# The Disk Data Base
#DDB
ddb.virtualHWVersion = "3"
ddb.geometry.cylinders = "16383"
ddb.geometry.heads = "16"
ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"
ddb.geometry.biosCylinders = "1024"
ddb.geometry.biosHeads = "16"
ddb.geometry.biosSectors = "63"
ddb.adapterType = "ide"
As you will notice, the disk geometry is all wrong as well as the total
size. If I try to boot up the Windows 98 image on the disk, no image is
found. I am not sure where VMWare gets its information from in Fedora, but
it is wrong. If I modify the file to look like the following, everything
works fine:
# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
CID=dbcd9a3c
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="fullDevice"
# Extent description
RW 58621184 FLAT "/dev/hdb" 0
# The Disk Data Base
#DDB
ddb.toolsVersion = "5184"
ddb.virtualHWVersion = "3"
ddb.geometry.cylinders = "16065"
ddb.geometry.heads = "255"
ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"
ddb.geometry.biosCylinders = "16065"
ddb.geometry.biosHeads = "255"
ddb.geometry.biosSectors = "63"
ddb.adapterType = "ide"
I know there were geometry reporting problems in Fedora Core 2. Is this a
problem for Fedora or a problem in VMWare? Just trying to help out others
that might want to use physical images in VMWare.
Jim
19 years, 8 months
FC3 Test 2 on external USB hard drive.
by Marco De Lellis
I am having trouble with installation of FC3T2 onto an external USB
drive. I did it successfully with FC2 following the directions I found
at http://www.simonf.com/usb.
The trick was modify the initrd.img, adding the modules usbcore.ko,
sd_mod.ki, scsi_mod.ko, ehci-hcd; then a few lines added to linuxrc etc.
etc. A bit of work with a successful end.
Now FC3T2: the initrd.img is now made with cpio instead of an image
generated with dd and mke2fs... Anyway I made the image initrd with all
the modules (except usbcore.ko, which I suppose is linked statically to
te kernel), and I followed the same schema of the link above. The result
is this: kernel panic, VFS: unable to mount root on unknown...
The question is: that method is not valid for FC3? There is something I
missed?
Very grateful for any educative help.
Marco
19 years, 8 months
Arrow for NEXT in arabic should be pointing to left ?
by xerces8
Hi!
In GUI install of FC2t2 I choose the arabic language, just for fun. As
arabic script is right-to-left, all the GUI is also turned around left-right.
Except the arrow on the NEXT/PREV buttons are still "western". On the
"Next" button the arrow is pointing to the right, whil it would be more
consistent with the rest of the GUI, if it pointed to left.
I'm no expert, so if this is just OK, ignore this message.
Regards,
xerces8
19 years, 8 months
RE: cron as normal user - changed
by William John Murray
Hello there,
I see that a cron.allow/cron.deny combination
is now specifically required, but I am not sure how to make
it work correctly.
If I have a user 'myuser' who issues
crontab afile
the response is
You (myuser) are not allowed to use this program (crontab)
See crontab(1) for more information.
Now I 'touch /etc/crontab.deny'; and get:
cron/tmp.XXXXTBxTOG: Permission denied.
I am not sure where this file is not being written - perhaps
the protection on this need changing? Any ideas anyone?
Bill
19 years, 8 months
could openoffice.org-i18n be seperated into languages, or language groups.
by Rodd Clarkson
openoffice.org-i18n is huge, so it got me wondering, could this package
be separated into individual languages to try and minimize the size of
the download.
I would guess that for most people they only need a single language, or
a couple of languages at most, so having to download 115MB of package
just to get a couple of languages seems excessive, especially if an
update is issued.
Would this be possible? And should I file a bug proposing this (I
appreciate that this may not be actioned before FC3, but I still think
it's worth it in the future.)
Rodd
--
>From the pain come the dream
>From the dream come the vision
>From the vision come the people
>From the people come the power
>From this power come the change
- Peter Gabriel
19 years, 8 months
Re: SCSI DVD drive not recognized on fc3-t2 kernel 2.6.8-1.584
by William John Murray
Hi there,
I'm having trouble with the same issue.
* hwbrowser sees 'Yamaha CRW2100S as /dev/scd0'
* hwbrowser does not see this under SCSI..maybe that's OK?
* /sbin/lsmod | grep sg empty
* /proc/scsi/scsi:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00
Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW2100S Rev: 1.0K
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
How do I find the major/minor numbers from mknod please? And was
there a conclusion on which modules need to be loaded?
Thanks,
Bill Murray
19 years, 8 months
Hostname won't stick
by Michael Seney
Anyone ever have a problem with setting your hostname.
Here is the deal, I dual boot w/ Windows XP which is
ofcourse the first partition NTFS. Then there is a
Fat32 Middle Partition and then my ext3 / a swap and
/home which is ext3. For some reason it autonames my
hostname upon installation gecko? I think Windows uses
that? I wanted to make it something different and edit
the /etc/hosts and made the 127.0.0.1 newhostname
localhost. Used #hostname newhostname. Restarted X
server and it took until a reboot? Any ideas why it
wants to be gecko and doesn't like any other hostnames
I want to specify. * I just put FC3T2 on this system
and previously ran Debian Sarge with the hostname I
liked without a problem.
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19 years, 8 months
printing not working.
by Jim Cornette
I tried to print and found out that my HP DEskjet 810C printer would not
print. I also noted that Openoffice showed only a generic printer
available. When trying to print, my system went into a semmingly frozen
state.
I then launched system-config-printer and found only a red X and did not
see a way to add a printer manually. The program took a long time to
even launch.
I then opened hwbrowser and my printer is listed through this tool.
Also, I tried to print from gedit and mozilla with the same results. Of
course with no printer being setup automatically, this is not a
surprise. The slowdown on the system was there with thes programs also.
hal-0.2.98.cvs20040923-1
desktop-printing-0.14-1
cups-1.1.21-2
system-config-printer-0.6.112-1
The not needing to configure the printer was a reality before this FC3T2
installation. Also, I got the eggcups dialog problem yesterday and do
not have it today. Is there something that needs deleted to remedy this
failure?
JIm
19 years, 8 months