Installed with disastrous results
by PCDEBB | Fedora-list
I decided to upgrade my Redhat 9 to Fedora Core lastnite (12/2/03 9:30pm).
Install seemed well until I rebooted. I simply got the word "GRUB" with a
blinking cursor. No selections, couldn't type anything at all. Thankfully
I created a boot disk, so I was able to boot into Fedora. Installing grub
was a disaster. It is now 5am, and I just now reached my windows desktop
after searching all over for a bootable windows cd to fix my mbr. The
install seemed so simple that even I could do it, but no such thing. Thru
the night it went from bad to worse to where the internet wouldn't even work
anymore. I went to many forums and asked around for help but got no help.
I went back and did a fresh install of linux, told it not to install any
bootloader, but I still got the grub screen. I went to various how-to's to
try an configure grub, no luck. I tried everything I can think of until it
literally brought me down to tears. I love being a tech chick and I really
want to get into this linux thing, but this experience has been very
discouraging.
At this point I'm considering removing all traces of linux off this system
for good, but I don't want to go out like that. I really want to know how
to fix the problem and learn from it. At this point I can still boot from
the floppy I think, but I'm scared to even reboot my system now, and I'd
rather have a menu choice to boot from instead of a floppy. (floppies tend
to find their way "reformatted" around here)
Can someone please steer a nice lady like myself in the right direction and
start over and fix my boot now? Can I even edit my boot.ini in windows?
Thank you very much
Deb
20 years, 6 months
Minimum system to support RedHat Fedora Linux
by Jim Taylor
I live in a rural area and am getting people interested in Linux. We're
thinking of starting up a Linux club, and I'd like to know of the
experiences of others in sizing a system to run Fedora -- that is, the
LOW END starter system suitable for a start-up Linux club.
There's a really nice computer components shop in the nearest city, and
I'd like to put together an example of the minimum starter system for
Linux, given that it would have graphics capability.
I was thinking of:
-motherboard with 2xUSB, serial port(s), and whatever else comes with
motherboards these days (low end) like integrated 10/100 Ethernet
- AMD processor, 700 MHZ (that seems to be the low-end in the shop I
visited)
- graphics adapter (2D graphics, maybe "gee-whiz gaming graphics" ?)
- 30GB hard drive
- basic tower case, 200 to 300 watt power supply, not-too-noisy fan
I have a used PC available for this purpose, but it has only 64MB RAM
and will barely boot the install CD in graphics mode, and it is VERY
SLOW, slow enough to discourage people from giving Linux a try.
And ideas and recommendations would be appreciated
Jim
20 years, 6 months
Re: Conexant HSFlinmodem + serial_core.c [was RE: conexant combo]
by William John Murray
>if ((tty->count == 1) && (state->count != 1)) {
>to
>if (((tty->count.counter) == 1) && (state->count != 1)) {
>
>It should compile fine... According to him, it's based/tested on FC1.
>[From http://freax.be/]
>
>I tried it.. and it does not work.. Does anyone have any workaround for
>this??
It works fine for me:) I change just this line, and re-run hsfconfig and
all works well. What was your error?
Bill
20 years, 6 months
Re: Installed with disastrous results
by dballester@kernpharma.com
Hi Deb:
This usually is related to changes in the number of disk partitions.
May be you have created/deleted partitions during upgrade?
Please, are you able to send the actual partition table? ( use fdisk
/dev/<your_disk> an 'p' option )
waiting your reply
David Ballester Montolio
Responsable Sistemas y Comunicaciones
Kern Pharma, S.L.
www.kernpharma.com
"My hardware is like Air Conditioned, runs better with windows closed"
GNU!
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I decided to upgrade my Redhat 9 to Fedora Core lastnite (12/2/03 9:30pm).
Install seemed well until I rebooted. I simply got the word "GRUB" with a
blinking cursor. No selections, couldn't type anything at all. Thankfully
I created a boot disk, so I was able to boot into Fedora. Installing grub
was a disaster. It is now 5am, and I just now reached my windows desktop
after searching all over for a bootable windows cd to fix my mbr. The
install seemed so simple that even I could do it, but no such thing. Thru
the night it went from bad to worse to where the internet wouldn't even
work
anymore. I went to many forums and asked around for help but got no help.
I went back and did a fresh install of linux, told it not to install any
bootloader, but I still got the grub screen. I went to various how-to's
to
try an configure grub, no luck. I tried everything I can think of until it
literally brought me down to tears. I love being a tech chick and I really
want to get into this linux thing, but this experience has been very
discouraging.
At this point I'm considering removing all traces of linux off this system
for good, but I don't want to go out like that. I really want to know how
to fix the problem and learn from it. At this point I can still boot from
the floppy I think, but I'm scared to even reboot my system now, and I'd
rather have a menu choice to boot from instead of a floppy. (floppies
tend
to find their way "reformatted" around here)
Can someone please steer a nice lady like myself in the right direction and
start over and fix my boot now? Can I even edit my boot.ini in windows?
Thank you very much
Deb
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20 years, 6 months
Also having problems installing new kernel
by Kevin Hanser
I've noticed that some other people mentioned that they couldn't install
the new kernel thru up2date... I'm also experiencing this problem. If I
try to use up2date, it tells me that it has an invalid GPG signature,
and the file was corrupted. I've also tried downloading the rpm
manually, and using the rpm commandline to install it. When I try that,
it complains:
error: kernel-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i686.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID
4f2a6fd2
error: kernel-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i686.rpm cannot be installed
thx!
k
20 years, 6 months
Problem mounting FAT32 hard drive
by AL
Any thoughts on this? I have a second hard drive located at HDD and it is a
single partition 80GB drive. When I try to mount it as root I get the error
"mount: fs type fat not supported by kernel." I currently have fat support
loaded as a module. It shows up when I do lsmod, but its not in the kernel.
At least it doesn't show up when I do a "cat /proc/filesystems."
Am I missing something?
-AL
20 years, 6 months
Re: nvidia install with new 2129.nptl kernel
by dballester@kernpharma.com
May be you can use rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs <nvidia_package> ?
HTH
Regards
David Ballester Montolio
Responsable Sistemas y Comunicaciones
Kern Pharma, S.L.
www.kernpharma.com
"My hardware is like Air Conditioned, runs better with windows closed"
GNU!
>
> Wolf, as I wrote , I can not remove the nvidia-module-kernel, rpm -e
> says it's
> not installed and rpm -U says it is.
> I'll try your suggestion but I dont like orphans in the system and
> would prefer to get the rpm out first.
>
> david
20 years, 6 months
K3b issue
by Roger Grosswiler
ah, forgot to say, that this concerns versions 0.10 and bigger as you have
to call k3bsetup via a kind of 'kcmshell k3bsetup' which is not integrated
in gnome.
Cheers,
Roger
20 years, 6 months
K3b issue
by Roger Grosswiler
k3bsetup is just working, if you installed kde completely. if you download
the rpm's and install it via gnome - there is no k3bsetup - so either for
me on gnome, no access to k3b as non-root-user
Cheers,
Roger
20 years, 6 months