HOWTO install From FAT drives?
by Mac
Dear Friends,
I downloaded the FC2 (four iso files,MD5-checked) under windows environment, and want to install it without burning CDs. I tried to use loadlin.exe(for DOS) and grub to load the vmlinuz and initrd.img file(in the directory of /images/pxeboot),but failed.Here are the command line I tried:
loadlin vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=9216
(failed,unrecognized format)
grub>root (hd0,8)
grub>kernel /fedora/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz initrd=/fedora/images/pxeboot/initrd.img ramdisk_size=9216
grub>boot
(failed,Unable to mount root filesystem)
The FC2 Distribution don't supply a comfortable way for installing without CDs, since we cannot write the diskboot.img to a floppy. I think the only method is to use the vmlinuz and initrd.img, but I don't know how to.
Could anybody help me? And I want more info(usage,parameters,etc) on the two files, vmlinuz and initrd.img of all linux distribitions.
Thanks a lot.
Mac, Harbin China
macshy(a)tom.com
2004-05-31
20 years
have a look at this.. interesting stuff!
by Craig Tinson
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040527.html
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20 years
correct format?
by Craig Tinson
just saw this..
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[craig@craig]# ps -aux
Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See
http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.2 0.0 2116 464 ? S 01:33 0:05 init [5]
etc etc...
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I've used -aux with ps ever since I started to learn about linux (about
9 years ago with slackware)
I *have* noticed that it doesn't work too well when I go visit a client
of mine that has an old sparc running solaris though..
so what gives? never seen this error in previous versions of RH.. am
running FC2 on this machine now so is it a new thing with FC2?
just curious.. always figured the "-" for "options" was a perfectly good
way to handle things and seems to still be the de-facto on most
commands.. so why is "ps" so different?
Craig
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20 years
FC2: firefox won't run after installing search and mouse plugins
by Frank Rehwinkel
Just put FC2 on a second machine at home. It's great.
Kudoes to the developers and testers.
For days, I've had firefox installed and running fine.
I had used apt and synaptic to get/install the
package.
Firefox was made the default gnome browser. All good.
Very good.
Today I decided to load some plugins. I added about
eight search plugins and the mouse gestures plugin.
All as a regular user (i.e. not root). There was one
error message that popped to the screen during the
mouse gestures install which I think had to do with
not being able to write or create to a file. I didn't
note the error, thinking the install would just be
aborted. The next popup indicated the install had
completed successfully. So, wondering if it had or
had not installed properly, I closed my firefox
program and tried to start it back up.
But it won't start. The symptom, when typing firefox
in a shell, is that after a few seconds, it ends.
Nothing writen to stdout or stderr. Nothing pops up.
No new process created. If I try to start it from the
gnome panel, a see a "Starting Web browser" window
being created, but after a few seconds it disappears.
I've uninstalled firefox, and reinstalled it, to no
avail. I searched for a ~/.firefox directory. One
didn't exist. I've moved the ~/.mozilla directory out
of the way and the ~/.phoenix directory out of the
way, still no good. I uninstalled firefox again, and
moved the /usr/lib/firefox directory out of the way.
And reinstalled firefox. Still no good. I moved
/usr/lib/mozilla out of the way, and still firefox
just returns immediately.
I have not tried rebooting, but as this isn't Windows,
I wouldn't expect that to help.
What file/directory am I missing? Or what package
dependancy have I broken by uninstalling firefox and
reinstalling (all via synaptic)? I may have made the
problem worse during this debugging because firefox
won't start under my root login any longer either.
But admittedly I had installed the mouse gesture
plugin there too, but at least saw it work once as
root. That install didn't cause a file/directory
failure message to be printed. I did not install the
search plugins as root though. Now after the
uninstall/reinstall. Even root can't get firefox to
do anything.
-stuck
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20 years
Re: FC2: firefox won't run after installing search and mouse plugins
by Frank Rehwinkel
So after a reboot, firefox is working again.
For kicks, I tried to follow the same procedure as far
as getting the mouse gestures extension installed, and
this time with better results.
As an unprivileged user, the install failed, saying I
didn't have appropriate permissions to write to
mozilla/chrome directory. Error code:-202.
After restarting firefox, there was in fact no new
extension. But at least firefox could still be run.
Then as root I started firefox and installed the mouse
gestures extension which did work. Both the root's
firefox and my user's firefox show mouse gestures as
an installed extension now.
I'll chalk it up to a problem with the search
extensions that I had tried to install, and some bad
state left in the kernel, which didn't get cleaned up
until it was rebooted.
-Frank
--- Frank Rehwinkel <redback_frank(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> Just put FC2 on a second machine at home. It's
> great.
> Kudoes to the developers and testers.
>
> For days, I've had firefox installed and running
> fine.
> I had used apt and synaptic to get/install the
> package.
> Firefox was made the default gnome browser. All
> good.
> Very good.
>
> Today I decided to load some plugins. I added about
> eight search plugins and the mouse gestures plugin.
> All as a regular user (i.e. not root). There was
> one
> error message that popped to the screen during the
> mouse gestures install which I think had to do with
> not being able to write or create to a file. I
> didn't
> note the error, thinking the install would just be
> aborted. The next popup indicated the install had
> completed successfully. So, wondering if it had or
> had not installed properly, I closed my firefox
> program and tried to start it back up.
>
> But it won't start. The symptom, when typing
> firefox
> in a shell, is that after a few seconds, it ends.
> Nothing writen to stdout or stderr. Nothing pops
> up.
> No new process created. If I try to start it from
> the
> gnome panel, a see a "Starting Web browser" window
> being created, but after a few seconds it
> disappears.
>
> I've uninstalled firefox, and reinstalled it, to no
> avail. I searched for a ~/.firefox directory. One
> didn't exist. I've moved the ~/.mozilla directory
> out
> of the way and the ~/.phoenix directory out of the
> way, still no good. I uninstalled firefox again,
> and
> moved the /usr/lib/firefox directory out of the way.
>
> And reinstalled firefox. Still no good. I moved
> /usr/lib/mozilla out of the way, and still firefox
> just returns immediately.
>
> I have not tried rebooting, but as this isn't
> Windows,
> I wouldn't expect that to help.
>
> What file/directory am I missing? Or what package
> dependancy have I broken by uninstalling firefox and
> reinstalling (all via synaptic)? I may have made
> the
> problem worse during this debugging because firefox
> won't start under my root login any longer either.
> But admittedly I had installed the mouse gesture
> plugin there too, but at least saw it work once as
> root. That install didn't cause a file/directory
> failure message to be printed. I did not install
> the
> search plugins as root though. Now after the
> uninstall/reinstall. Even root can't get firefox to
> do anything.
>
> -stuck
>
>
>
>
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20 years
ATI Driver for FC2
by Clayton Rogers
Does anyone know a way of getting the ATI Radeon Driver Version 3.9 to
work with Xorg?
Regards
20 years
mplayer playing avi and wma files too fast
by Jose Maria Pagan
the other day i installed mplayer in FC2, for some reason it plays avis
too fast, just like pressing down a "fast foward" buton.
It works well playing mpeg and mp3 files.
The installation was done with yum install... (livna repositories) so
that should be ok
I use a M-audio audiophile sound card(Envy24chip) working with alsa
drivers.
thanks in advance :D
20 years
Xorg documentation ?
by Timothy Murphy
The Xorg ATI Rage driver only half-works on my Sony C1 laptop.
More precisely, it only works with DefaultDepth 8,
which seems to cause serious problems with some applications, eg Mozilla.
William Hooper kindly sent me an xorg.conf which does work with Depth 16,
but only with the screen size 1024x768.
This is almost unuseable on the small C1 screen,
where I use screen size 1024x480 with Virtual screen 1024x768.
For some reason this does not work, though I would have thought
it would be "easier" for the driver -
one just gets a black screen slowing changing to a blank white screen.
In any case, this seemed to me a problem which should be easy to crack,
so I tried looking for the Xorg documentation.
Does this exist?
I couldn't see any documentation at all at <http://www.x.org>.
[There doesn't even appear to be a man page for the "ati" driver,
so how does anyone know what options are available?]
And a quick view of the xorg buzilla was not reassuring.
There seemed to be a tiny number of people involved
in what must be a huge project.
My conclusion - which could easily be wrong,
as I know very little about the subject -
was that the change from XFree86 to Xorg is a serious blunder.
[I'd assumed that the XFree86 drivers would still be available to Xorg,
but it seems from comments I read that this is not so,
and that the two paths have diverged irretrievably.]
But to get down to specifics,
it is clear that the "ati" driver - or any driver -
must have a database of possible Modelines,
since eg William Hooper's xorg.conf did not specify a Modeline.
But where is this database?
And what line in xorg.conf leads to it?
Is it the ModelName "LCD Panel 1024x768"?
If so, what other ModelNames can one substitute?
If anyone can cast light on what to me is a very dark corner
I would be most grateful.
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20 years
Re: FAQ Question? Any FC2 programmers read this?
by Marc Lucke
mmm. Thanks for this comment. I should know better than to bite but I
just have to anyway - what's the point of being inflamitory? Why not
just make your point? Or buy a dog to kick - work of some of that agro -
you know, man? ;-) "developers forum": a forum for developers. Am I a
developer? No. Should I post to the developers forum? Well, I'll check
it out but I think that I might be forgiven for thinking that the
developer's forum is for developers... :-D hmm, if you can't find the
developers forum, then you probably shouldn't be posting there... On
Mon, 31 May 2004 02:46:44 +1000, Marc Lucke <marc(a)marcsnet.com> wrote:
>>
>> Stupid question - probably an RTFA one at that so sorry in advance -
>> would this list be looked at by any one of the Fedora coders? There are
>> many basic Q&As which is good but is there another place for me to ask
>> or relate my problem/s?
>>
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