FC6 i386 to FC7 x86_64
by Javier Perez
Hi
How do I go from a FC6 i386 system to a FC7 x86_64 system without data loss?
I had to change the motherboard of my MythTV system. Given the fact that
x86_4 support
was poor at the time I built it, I went i386 on the install. Now it looks
like x86_64 is better
supported and I want to move to a x86_64-only system.
I was able to upgrade from FC6 to FC7 in another system using yum only (I
think my
DVDwriter is toast, The FC7DVD came out a coaster). Therefore I'd rather use
the
yum/rpm way to upgrade. Nevertheless when I downloaded the x86_64 kernel,
rpm
refused to install/upgrade my current kernel to that version.
Is there a minimum set of programs that I have to update together to make
the switch to
x86_64?
Thanks!
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16 years, 10 months
linux IP watcher
by L
Hi
my ISP provides a non-statis IP. I am looking for a linux tool to watch ip
address change. that can monitor my public and local IP address. If IP
address changes it will send an email, to the address specified, with the
new IP address. This email also includes the computer name and time the
change occurred. This is useful for computers that have dynamically assigned
IP addresses, but need to be accessed remotely.
Hope some one can help
Yuan
16 years, 10 months
[F7] Most reliable RAID level
by Stuart Murray-Smith
Greetings list
What is the preferred/most reliable level to implement software RAID
on a Fedora 7 server?
I know there may be many answers to this, and I'm keen to get a consensus :-)
TiA, and have a great day!
Regards,
Stuart
16 years, 10 months
kmail problems after recent update
by Genes MailLists
After the latest kmail update (kdepim-3.5.7-3.fc7) I have 2 things which
no longer work:
(i) filters - set to run on 1 inbox (exchange imap) and move to several
folders on a different imap server.
They no longer get run.
(ii) it no longer is able to expand addresses from the corporate ldap
server.
sigh ... i _really_ need a reliable functioning email program ...
16 years, 10 months
FC6 + fglrx + xgl + dualhead + 2 desktops problem
by ArcosCom Linux User
Hi guys,
I had installed xgl and appears to be working.
Now the problem is that on the right screen don't load the desktop, I can
only view a black screen and the mouse cursor appears as a "X" over that
screen.
I can play with beryl on the laptop flat fine (1600x1050 with 24bpp), but
not with the external LCD (1280x1024 with 24bpp). The right screen
(external LCD) works fine witout XGL, and appears to work fine with Xgl,
but the secondary desktop is not loaded into the secondary screen.
With "ps aux" I can see 2 Xorg process and only one Xgl process.
Perhaps I need to make modifications into any gdm configuration files?
What files I have to modify? How?
Perhaps I need to make modifications into xorg.conf to adapt it for Xgl use?
Please, I need help about this.
I think my xorg.conf file is fine, it allow me to play fine with 2
desktops (1 desktop per screen) without Xgl and with fglrx and/or nvidia
drivers, and I can play fine (with the same xorg.conf file) with beryl
only in the other screen only can see the mouse cursor as an "X".
I think (as I can see in ubuntu forums) that I need to modify any gdm
files to force to load 2 Xgl servers, but I don't know how to do that.
Any help?
Regards
16 years, 10 months
Booting F7 Installation DVD
by Dave Cross
I have a Philips Freevents X51 laptop and I'm having real problems
getting the F7 installation DVD to boot.
It boots to the initial screen, where you press "enter" to start the
installation, but at that point it seems that the keyboard is
unrecognised. Pressing any key has no effect at all.
I've used DVDs burnt from downloaded ISOs and the DVD that came free
with this month's copy of Linux Format. But they all fail in the same
way. The same DVDs have worked successfully on other computers.
Some time ago I successfully installed FC6 from DVD on this laptop and
it's currently running Ubuntu which I installed from a magazine cover
disk. But I'm getting frustrated with Ubuntu and want to come home to
Fedora.
Any advice?
Thanks,
Dave...
16 years, 10 months
gnome-terminal's uglification in Fedora 7
by Sam Varshavchik
Whose bright idea was it to change gnome terminal (actually vte), so that
spaces are no longer underlined?
$ echo -e '\e[4mHelp me\e[24m'
The two words get underlined, the space character does not.
Does anyone realize just how many terminal applications use underlines to
visually indicate text-entry fields? Now, they all disappear, and everything
looks like crap.
I can't think of any valid reason for this change in behavior, since xterm
still gets it right -- the space character is underlined. I can't wait to
hear what was the urgent reason for this change that uglifies so many
existing terminal apps.
16 years, 10 months
A useful thing
by Karl Larsen
When I partitioned my big 160 GB hard drive the first two are too small.
I want to, with fdisk make the first 2 partitions into one which will be
15 GB and big enough for F7.
Doing this will screw up Grub of course, but I now know what to do. I
will edit /boot/grub/grub.conf so that the new changed partitions are
right based on what fdisk prints out. This will be simple knowing what
to do :-)
I want to put F7 in this new partition and that will be simple but I
will need to fix Grub again since it will be using F7 as the grub home.
Then the hard part. I like the FC6 kernel I am using now and want to use
it on F7 which will eliminate one big minus I had to F7. How do I yum
the FC6 kernel onto F7?
Karl
16 years, 10 months
yum whatprovides ??
by Jeffrey Ross
I tried using the command "yum whatprovides stddef.h" to locate the
include library last night. Yum when through its process and came up
with nothing in a fairly short order.
Am I not using the command correctly?
Jeff
16 years, 10 months
Grub and old hard drives
by Karl Larsen
For several years I have let the anaconda loader put the grub boot
message in the spot for such things on /dev/hda/. Fine, a couple of
years later I bought a much bigger hard drive and this Linux is on that.
But Grub is still using /dev/hda/.
These are both Western Digital hard drives and I have had good luck
with them. But the first to fail will be the oldest I expect. When that
happens Grub will fail. This is a real hard thing to fix :-(
So I have a plan. First read "Info Grub" and see how to put a Grub
boot in the boot section of /dev/hdb/. This I think is pretty simple. I
can do this today. But how to cause the file /boot/grub/grub.conf to use
this new boot point may be difficult.
Assuming this is possible I will let the list know.
Karl
16 years, 10 months