F7 on EeePC : how to connect??
by Beartooth
I have what I think is one of the earliest EeePCs; a label on the back
says ASUS 701 -- model number??
After a lot of trouble, I got it to triple-boot Puppy, Eeedora, and
Fedora 8, two of them from geek sticks. Then when I tried using them all,
I soon found that for anyone with large trifocal fingers and arthritic
eyeballs, about its only worthwhile use would be sitting in waiting
rooms.
So I fitted it and its peripheral paraphernalia into a suitable
receptacle, and kept that handy. But it happened that I had no occasion
to use it for several weeks.
When I did, the battery had gone dead, just sitting there.
Once I got it usable at all again, two of the three boots were
unusable, and the other was my least favorite.
Yesterday I installed Fedora 7, from a live CD in an external USB
drive -- twice. After the second install, which wouldn't boot, I tried
booting it with the puppy stick inserted -- and it booted, but to Fedora.
But it can't seem to find the ethernet cable which is plugged right
into it. (Come to think of it, anaconda never asked me its usual routine
questions about connecting.)
How do I get the fool thing to connect??
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Fedora 7, 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6;
Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
15 years, 8 months
Removing mess in desktop
by Timothy Murphy
Occasionally when I leave an application
it leaves a "mess" - jumbled content -
in the desktop where it was running.
This doesn't really matter, as when I run an application
which opens a window in that desktop
it simply covers the mess.
Nevertheless, is there any way of "cleaning" a desktop,
apart from re-booting?
(I'm not sure if re-starting X does the job.)
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
15 years, 8 months
Re: how to hide nfs share absolute path to the clients
by Gianluca Cecchi
I confirm that the actual path is invisible now to the clients, using what g
suggested:
On the nfs server I have
df
/dev/drbd0 20635024 4964288 14622532 26% /drbd0
/drbd0/nfs 20635024 4964288 14622532 26% /nfsapp
and
/etc/exports
/nfsapp 10.1.1.0/255.255.255.0(ro,all_squash,mp=/drbd0,async)<http://10.1.1.0/255.255.255.0%28ro,all_squash,mp=/drbd0,async%29>
while fstab of client is
nfsserv1:/nfsapp /nfsapp nfs defaults,noauto 0 0
and a df command on it now gives:
nfsserv1:/nfsapp 20635040 4964288 14622560 26% /nfsapp
So the original path is not visible at all to the client.
Thanks again g (whoever you are... ;-)
Gianluca
15 years, 8 months
Proxy Settings
by Leon Vergottini
Hi
Can you guys please help me. I have tried now several ways to get yum going
from behind a proxy server. In fact I have locked my account on 14 domain
controllers today on our enterprise network.
I ahve tried adding the the proxy settings in the yum.conf file as per
certain forums. I have tried the export http_proxy option. Still none is
working.
Regards
15 years, 8 months
accessing kickstart floppy files during install
by Gianluca Cecchi
Is it possible?
I'm using a dvd based installation, using an ext2 kickstart floppy, where I
type
linux ks=floppy
during install
The installation proceeds and completes.
I would like to put some customization scripts inside the floppy and copy
them to the system during install.
They would be used on the target system after installation and they require
user input to complete, that can be different across installations.
I have no network connectivity during install.
Any hints on how the floppy is mounted when anaconda copies the ks.cfg file
to hard disk and if it is accessible during install in %pre or %post phase?
It seems that it is suddenly unmounted...
I could try to detect which device name it is the floppy and then manually
mount it during the %post section, but perhaps there is a smarter way...
Thanks,
Gianluca
15 years, 8 months
"Permission Denied" error for root user when perms are 0775?
by R. G. Newbury
Weird problem.
I downloaded an svn version of mythtv, cd'd to the folder, and tried to
run './configure --help', Got a 'Permission Denied' error.
I am root and the permissions were and are 0775...chmod changes nothing,
even trying 0777.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on? The directory is on a 'rw'
partition, since I just downloaded to it, using a script. But the
configure script itself will not run. I changed the first line from:
#!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash > no change.
And bash *is* in /bin and executable, owned by root.
I'm stumped....
Geoff
15 years, 8 months
Where is php installed
by Sanjay S Nair
Hi
I want to add gd to php. For that i want to know the installation location
of php
Could anybody tell me the default installation directory of php and apache.
Thanks
15 years, 8 months
Re: To yum or not to yum
by Petrus de Calguarium
Thanks, Rahul.
It's nice to finally hear something about what a Fedora user is supposed to do.
I had read stuff about new keys and stuff, but it didn't seem to apply to the
general user, but nothing definite about how to proceed was ever said.
15 years, 8 months
how to hide nfs share absolute path to the clients
by Gianluca Cecchi
Hello,
I have a file system /fs
I want to export a directory /fs/nfsdir and all its subdirectories.
As on the client side /etc/fstab is world readable, I would like not to show
the absolute path of the server side.
Is this possible with any kind of directives at client and/or server side?
So that /etc/fstab on the clients would be
nfsserver:/nfsapp /nfsapp nfs defaults 0 0
but actually /nfsapp is mapped to /fs/nfsdir on server.
I would also like to avoid links if possible.
I only found mp=path option server-side, but it seems for other means.
I also see something like "Optional mount point" in a web based config
manual..... but don't find an option part into the man page
Any hints?
Thanks,
Gianluca
15 years, 8 months