BIOS problems, booting from external USB on some older computers
by Paul Johnson
I have external disks and on systems where the BIOS allows one to boot
from USB, I can start Fedora 7 on the external disk. I've got all the
Grub and other complications with disk labels and so forth worked out.
However...
I have run into a fleet of Dell GX260 systems and the BIOS does not
allow USB to boot. They do allow a CDROM to boot, however, and so I
started wondering if there is a way I could give users a CDROM that
would start the boot process and then hand over to the external USB
system. I don't want the rescue disk, really, because that asks the
users questions and requires them to interact as root with the system.
But some thing like that would be good..
Do you have any advice?
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University of Kansas
16 years, 9 months
evolution-2.10.2-2.fc7 crashes if you set a search folder with a relative date
by Tim
Can someone else see if their FC7's Evolution also crashes when trying
to set up a search folder that applies relative to a date?
Create a new search folder.
Pick the option to apply a rule for "date received".
Click on the button where you'd select a date.
That's when the crash happens for me. Evolution on FC6 works for me.
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2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386
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16 years, 9 months
Splash Screen
by tony.chamberlain@lemko.com
I really want to do this for KDE and Gnome, but first I am trying with KDE.
I took a splash screen and am trying to modify it. The one with the pictures
of things like the keyboard, a blue folder, the tools (settings), etc, which flicker
or darken as things get installed (e.g. the tools icon gets darker and blinks as
advanced settings are coming up, etc).
I noticed there is a splash_active_bar.png and a splash_inactive_bar.png.
>From what I can tell, at the beginning of system init, the entire splash_inactive_bar is
displayed, and then as a percentage of the system is up, part of the inactive bar is
replaced by part of the active bar, until the system is 100% up, and none of the
inactive_bar is displayed and all of the active is.
I tried replacing some of the icons with letters to spell a word, and made the backgrounds
different colors (inactive is light, and active is darker) and spread these letters out
the same way that the icons work.
Well, when the system comes up it seems to be working right, but part of the letters will be
darkened, and part not. And the inactive bar never seems to be completely replaced by
the active bar.
So maybe I don't understand it quite right. Has anyone had experience?
16 years, 9 months
file access attributes
by L
HI,
Could some one explain for what are the 's' or 't' attributes in the example
file access:
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 23084 Jun 6 00:40 /sbin/mount.cif
drwxrwxrwt 2 user home 4096 2007-08-29 15:34 win2000
Yuan
16 years, 9 months
Re: blank screen on boot in fc7
by frank.h.vanderlinden@us.army.mil
not shure where your asking me to enter it. im new to fc and trying learn. im guessing that is a boot level???
16 years, 9 months
F7 update problem
by Andras Simon
While trying to yum update this morning, I got
Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/include/popt.h from install of popt-1.10.2.1-1.fc7
conflicts with file from package popt-1.10.2-46.fc7
Apparently, yum is trying to update popt-1.10.2-46.fc7 with
popt-1.10.2.1-1.fc7, which looks strange to me.
Andras
16 years, 9 months
Problem updating rpmdevtools
by Fernando Apesteguía
Hi list,
I run an update today. The list of available packages included
rpmdevtools. The problem is that the transaction test failed with:
file /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths-worker from install of
rpm-build-4.4.2.1-1.fc6 conflicts with file from package
rpmdevtools-5.3-1.fc6
I use my system to create some .rpm packages so I aborted the install
to avoid system breaking. Anybody with the same problem? Should I
force the update?
I'm running FC6
Thanks in advance
16 years, 9 months
Mantis package bombs
by Charles Curley
I just installed mantis (mantis-1.0.8-1.fc7.noarch et al.). I turned
my browser to http://localhost/mantis/ and got:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /mantis/ on this server.
Apache/2.2.4 (Fedora) Server at localhost Port 80
And similarly for http://localhost/mantis.
So I go look at the configuration file, and it says to read a file
called README.Fedora. When I finally tracked that down, it said to
point your browser at https://localhost/mantis/admin/install.php. I
did so. After some gabble about certificates, I got:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /mantis/admin/install.php on this server.
Apache/2.2.4 (Fedora) Server at localhost Port 443
Now what?
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16 years, 9 months
How to configure sshfs ?
by Paul Johnson
I just learned that fuse-ssh allows one to mount drives via ssh. How
cool! As root, it works fine.
When regular users try it, it fails because they don't have permission
to /dev/fuse.
One option is to add users one by one to the fuse group in /etc/group.
But I don't have time to do that, and there are hundreds of users.
Can you tell me a way to allow all users who sit at the console to use
sshfs mounts? I tried to add the group user to the group fuse, but
got plenty of errors with that one. Maybe there is some hal or udev
thing you can tell me to do?
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Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas
16 years, 9 months