unmounting floppies
by Gerhard Magnus
I'm running FC3 with a KDE desktop. Recently, I've been having problems
unmounting floppy disks. Regardless of whether I use the right mouse
button on the "Floppy" icon to unmount the disk or use the command
"umount /media/floppy" in a terminal window I get the message:
"/media/floppy device is busy" twice. (Why twice anyway?) I've tried
using the command "fuser /dev/fd0" to locate processes accessing the
disk and this gives me a pid -- but when I try killing the process a new
pid replaces it. The only way out seems to be rebooting... which just
doesn't seem right!
Is this a bug or something "hanging on" in my system? Does anyone have
a suggestion for troubleshooting this further?
19 years, 2 months
Re: fc3 - raid 1 setup problems
by rado
let me be a little more specific about this problem
I first choose automatic partitions...see what they do auto then I go
back to disk druid.
automatic showed partions and mounts @:
/boot 102mb
/ 114369
swap 512 (I have 512 Ram)
2 ide 120 gb wd drives: hdb hdc
in Druid:
>new>hdb1 only>software RAID>fill to 102mb>primary partition checked
>new>hdb2 only>software RAID>fill to 114369
new>hdb3 only>swap>fill to 512
new>hdc1 only>software RAID>fill to 102mb>primary partition checked
new>hdc2 only>software RAID>fill to 114369
new>hdc3 only>swap>fill to 512
>RAID>create device md(0) mountpoint = /boot >hdb1,hdc1 checked
>RAID>create device md(1) mountpoint = / > hdb2, hdc2 checked
that's bout it...chose next and we on the way...starts installing and
whammo...no disk space grrrrrrrrrrr ...system will reboot...just hit ok
I am discounting memory problems as this same box was running freebsd
for weeks at a time 24/7 w/no probs.
thx
John Rose
--
The only thing Micro$oft has done for society is make people believe
that computers are inherently unreliable.
19 years, 2 months
FC2: How to mount BSD partition?
by KokHow Teh
Hi;
I have made sure that I compile FC2 with BSD partition and
file-system support. However, I have not had any luck mounting a BSD
(OpenBSD) partition with `mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd /dev/hdb4 /mnt/tmp`
command. I am dual booting FC2 and OpenBSD. Any advice and insight is
appreciated.
Regards,
TEH
19 years, 2 months
OT: FC4 and Evolution
by Jamie Bohr
Does any one know what Evolution version FC4 comes with?
Users in my company would love to go to Evolution if the calendering
featured worked with our Exchange servers; right now accessing a
calendar on an MS Exchange server causes Evolution to hang. I have
posted this to this list as well as at least one other, no resolution
ever came about. My question is what version of Evolution does FC4
come with? I would like to find out if this version addresses this
issue.
Thank you for your time and response.
Jamie Bohr
19 years, 2 months
KDE Menu Editing Not Working
by E. M. Recio
I saw bob schaefer's email saying to "search the archive" but the
search function for fedora-list on the redhat website gives nothing
for "KDE" or "menu".
I try and edit the menu with kmenueditor but NOTHING changes.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-April/msg02895.html
Search for kde menu. Search results: kde : 0 / 0, menu : 0 / 0
Sorry, your search for kde menu did not find any results.
No documents were found containing "kde menu".
--
Cheers,
E. M. Recio
(AIM: PolywogSys)
19 years, 2 months
Re: Audio CD device
by Simon Slater
> > > On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:48:47 +1100
> > > "Simon Slater" <sslater(a)cybanet.net.au> wrote:
> > >
> > > > For audio CD's to play on FC3, I have soft linked /dev/hdc ->
> > > /dev/cdrom,
> > > > changed the permissions of /dev/hdc from 660 to 664 and all is well.
> > > > However after each boot the permissions return to 660.
> > > >
> > > > -Do I need a script to continually change this?
> > > > -Why do the permissions revert to 660? Is this udev??
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks
> > > > Simon Slater
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yes udev is changing the permissions. See
> > > /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions. Look for cdrom.
> > > You can create a local rules file 50-local.permissions in the
> > > /etc/udev/permissions.d directory and set your rules there. ie:
> > > cdroms/*:root:disk:0664.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Richard E Miles
> > > Federal Way WA. USA
> > > registered linux user 46097
> >
> > I created the 50-local.permissions file as suggested, but no
> joy. I also
> > substituted ...:root:... with ...:$local:... but again no
> success. I could
> > not see reference to the 50-local.permissions file in the man
> page. Should
> > the layout be the similar to 50-udev.permissions, with only the relevant
> > lines? Is a soft or hard link from /dev/hdc -> cdrom still
> needed with this
> > fix?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Simon
> >
> I never had to make a link from /dev/hdc to /dev/cdrom, the
> system did it. How
> did you make the link? Was it ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom? Here is
> how my link
> looks:
> [rmiles@localhost ~]$ ls -l /dev/cdrom
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Mar 2 01:21 /dev/cdrom -> hdc
>
> Was your cd reader not working? On FC3 systems it is mounted at /media.
> What does your /etc/fstab look like? Here is mine:
> # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
> LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults
> 1 1
> LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults
> 1 2
> none /dev/pts devpts
> gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults
> 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults
> 0 0
> none /sys sysfs defaults
> 0 0
> /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults
> 0 0
> /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto
> pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,managed 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto
> pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,managed 0 0
>
> --
> Richard E Miles
> Federal Way WA. USA
> registered linux user 46097
>
Thanks again Richard, however my specs are analogous to yours. Yet my
system does not make the link. The "ls -l /dev/cdrom" gives File not found.
I use "ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom", giving the same permissions as in your
reply.
The CD reader is working: FC3 was installed from there; CD Player runs from
root (which first gave the pointer to permissions); Music Player plays
tracks ripped via Sound Juicer. Also the cable is connected from drive to
card.
The fstab is essentially the same w.r. to /dev/hdc with the exception of the
fs_file being /media/cdrom. The mount options are the same but in a
different order. (I did not include the fstab output because I am mailing
from a windows laptop. The FC3 box does not have the modem working yet. It
comes after Samba is up, after the tape drive is going, after the CD.)
Pointing CD Player to /media/cdrom gives:
"Error Setting Device
does not point to a valic CDRom device. This may be caused by:
a)CD support not present (N/A)
b)You do not have the correct permissions to access the CD drive (This error
still given both before and after chmod 664 /dev/hdc)
c)/media/cdrom is not the CD drive" (works with /dev/cdrom when permissions
set).
I hope this points to a solution.
Regards
Simon.
19 years, 2 months
Website info request
by Age Bosma
Hi,
I want to start using Linux and at this stage Fedora is the one I would
like to give a try.
When browsing the website I found that 2 important things are missing:
- Package info
I wasn't able to find a page which gave me some info about what each
disc actually contains. Are all 4 disc necessary to be able to install
Fedora? Since the distribution is 4 disc big in total, providing this
info might reduce the amount of downloads if not all disc are realy
necessary.
- Support
There is no obvious location on the site with support info. I'm not even
sure this mailing list is the one I should send this stuff to. A page
with at least mailing list info would be handy to have.
At this stage there aren't any docs available about how to install/use
Fedora, only docs about how to write docs, am I right?
This was a bit confusing to me.
It might be usefull to say this on the website to prevent people from
getting confused or to prevent unnecessary digging in the site in case
they think it's "hidden" somewhere by accident.
Anyway, just my 2 cents ;-)
Also, when can any new docs be expected? Not that I need any at this
stage, installing Fedora isn't difficult at all but is there already a
way to have a look at some docs in "beta" (or even "alpha") stage?
Yours,
Age
19 years, 2 months
Dual Boot, Grub, FC3-WinXpSP2, 2 drives. No go.
by Nat Gross
Hi;
I installed FC3 on a WinXP-sp2 system, whose c: drive was NOT being used
(for real), or so I thought. And gave the entire drive, hda, to FC3. I
reasoned that since my winXP booted into drive E:, the second drive,
hdb, Grub would have no issues with booting Windows. However, although
it boots FC3 nicely, when I elect to boot xp, it displays 'rootnoverify
(hd1,0) chainloader +1' and stops. Due to the partioning of hdb (as
listed below), I have tried hd1,1 as well, with the same results.
The hardware is as follows:
Dell Intel 1.6ghz, 768 meg ram, 2 hard drives, 20gig and 60gig.
Disk info:
hda:
hda1 1-33, /boot, 259meg, ext3.
hda2 34-164 swap, 1 gig
hda3 165-2498, /, 18gig, ext3.
hdb:
hdb1 1-3633, 28.4gig, fa32. (not mounted, or touched with Linux.)
hdb2 3634-7299,28.7gig, Extended. ( ditto)
hdb5 3634-7299,28.7gig,ntfs. (don't know why its listed twice. whatever.)
The /boot/grub/grub.conf:
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
password --md5 blah
title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
title WinXP
rootnoverify (hd1,1)
chainloader +1
=========================
As noted above, I also tried rootnoverify (hd1,0) .
Thank you
-nat
19 years, 2 months
Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol 13, Issue 29
by rado
> Am Mi, den 02.03.2005 schrieb rado um 15:09:
>
> > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/x8664-multi-i...
>
> > this page referred me to the following:
> > software RAID Creating two or more software RAID partitions allows you
> > to create a RAID device. For more information regarding RAID, refer to
> > the chapter RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) in the Red Hat
> > Enterprise Linux System Administration Guide.
> >
> > ....and it's just not there...I could find no chapter there on
> > RAID...the only thing I did find was the beginner's sys admin
> > guide..just a short explanation of the diff, raids etc...NOT an
> > up-to-date HOWTO, shall we say on the specific operating sys. that we
> > talking about ...Enterprise or FC3.
>
> > john rose
>
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/admin-guide/s...
>
> The whole new set of docs for RHEL4 you find on:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/
>
> Alexander
yes, I already looked at that thx
the specific info I am looking for just is not there...how to handle the
md devices...
thx tho, Alexander
john rose
>
The only thing Micro$oft has done for society is make people believe
that computers are inherently unreliable.
19 years, 2 months
Hard-Drive
by dissel@estevancomp.ca
To all
I currently have Fedora Core 3 running on a Compaq 266 256M Ram - and I
tried to move the hard-drive to a mini-ITX machine - -system started
Fedora startup-splash appeared - to select the Kernal - then the system
restarts, this continues - Any suggestions??
DI
19 years, 2 months