Advice for "crossgrading" from 32 bit F11 to x64 ?
by linux guy
I do a lot of photo processing... things like generating 200 jpgs from
raw files at one go. My laptop has 4GB of RAM but is currently only
using 3GB because I am running a 32 bit kernel.
uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Fri Sep 25
04:30:19 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Sooner or later I want to upgrade to a 64 bit kernel and 8 GB of RAM.
Other than this article, I can't find any information on the subject.
http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/123800
I am looking to do the upgrade WITHOUT reinstalling Fedora. I've done
enough re installations in the past to know that I don't want to go
there.
Has anyone done crossgraded from 32 to 64 bit ? What advice do you have
to offer ?
Thanks
14 years, 7 months
liveusb-creator error
by SternData
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Hash: SHA1
What does this error mean? The files seem to be happily copied onto my
USB key, but....
f12.iso selected
Verifying filesystem...
Verifying ISO MD5 checksum
ISO MD5 checksum passed
Extracting live image to USB device...
Wrote to device at 9 MB/sec
Creating 471MB persistent overlay
Setting up OLPC boot file...
Installing bootloader...
Assertion (head_size <= 63) at dos.c:639 in function
probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
LiveUSB creation failed!
Assertion (head_size <= 63) at dos.c:639 in function
probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
- --
Steve
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Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
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HYcAl1j8jG1TeeJjp00zEgZkjevjfNk=
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14 years, 7 months
Questionable Status
by Gene Poole
I've very recently upgraded 2 of my machines. One machine was upgraded
from Fedora 9 to Fedora 11, and the other machine was upgraded from Fedora
10 to Fedora 11. On machine 1 I have 2-hard disks (both Seagate's - 500
GB and 1000 GB), on machine 2 I have 1-hard disk (Western Digital 320 GB).
All of the interfaces are SATA. The questionable status is that on
machine 1 the 500 GB drive is showing as failing and on machine 2 the 320
GB drive is showing as failing. Neither drive, under the old releases,
showed up as failing. How do I know that these drive are truly failing?
Thanks,
Gene Poole
14 years, 7 months
Re: fribidi error with abiword on F11
by Globe Trotter
>
> > > fribidi-0.19.2-1.fc11
> > > contains libfribidi.so.0 with the symbol
you
> refer to.
>
> > Clearly this is installed. But yum provides
> */libfribidi0*
>
> libfribidi.so.0 == libfribidi0*
>
> Since when?
>
But that was my point! The responder indicated it was. So,
how does one get around the missing symbol, as in:
abiword: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libabiword-2.6.so:
undefined symbol: fribidi_get_type
Best,
T
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14 years, 7 months
f11: Cannot add LDAP directory server to thunderbird-3.0b3
by Joachim Backes
Hi,
I tried to add a LDAP directory server to thunderbird-3.0b3, but after
having added the server by File->New->LDAP server in the address book
window (general and advanced tab) and clicking OK, no ldap server has
been added:
The server I tried to ADD IS:
Hostname: ldap.pca.dfn.de
Base-DN: ou=DFN-PKI,o=DFN-Verein,c=de
Port: 389
searchfilter: (objectclass=*)
It seems, that I'm doing something wrong.
Any help is appreciated.
Regards
--
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de>
http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes
14 years, 7 months
Printing from Open Office of Fedora 11
by Paolo Galtieri
This morning I configured 2 network attached printers on F11 using hp-setup.
When I tried to print to one of them I got an selinux alert.
SELinux is preventing hp (hplip_t) "name_bind" howl_port_t.
lpstat -t shows the following for the relevant printer:
printer HP_Color_LaserJet_2605dn disabled since Thu 01 Oct 2009 09:36:23 AM
MST -
/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed
The problem appears to be in the printer configuration. If you look at the
printer properties and the device URI is similar to this:
hp:/net/HP_Color_laserjet_2605dn?zc=hpcolorjet
where hpcolorjet is the host name of the printer you will get an SELinux
alert. If the device URI is similar to this:
hp:/net/HP_Color_laserjet_2605dn?ip=192.168.10.71
then you don't.
When I configured the printers using hp-setup for the 2 new printers I took
all the default options.
Is this a bug? What do I file it against. SELinux? hplip?
On a related note. In unix there used to be 2 commands, enable and disable,
which were used to enable and disable printers. What is the cups
equivalent? The man pages weren't to clear on that.
Thanks,
Paolo
14 years, 7 months
No hope installing Fedora 11 on Acer Aspire 5739
by Ambrogio
Hi all,
I'm trying to install and make operative Fedora 11 on my new laptop.
The model is Acer Aspire 5739g
lspci says a lot of 82801I controller,
nvidia corporation device 0652 rev a1
intel corporation wireless wifi link 5100
attansic technology corp device 1063 rev c0
I had no chance to install fedora with the CD, because anaconda can't
find free space.
Graphics interface didn't start, and with the text interface, I couldn't
able to resize the NTFS.
I made the resize by hands, and after that anaconda found a free space
and installed a minimal fedora.
I say minimal because I didn't choose software to install, and no X nor
desktop managers was installed.
I can't use network card and wireless card.
I updated kernel to 2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i686.PAE but no chance too to use
the network.
I can assign an IP to eth0 but ping doesn't work.
someone can help me solving this. I think if I can configure and use the
network, I will have a better chance to obtain a Fedora 11 working PC.
Tnx in advance
Ambrogio
14 years, 7 months
Crossgrading Fedora 11 from i686 to x86_64
by Matt McCutchen
I've been using the i686 version of Fedora on my laptop for 2.5 years,
and I recently learned it actually has an x86_64 processor, so I am
crossgrading to x86_64; I feel confident in my ability to solve any
problems that arise. While I imagine crossgrading per se is not
supported, I've hit a number of individual issues that would probably be
reasonable to fix anyway, chief among them RPM requirements that should
be architecture-specific using the method described at:
http://www.rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/ArchDependencies
Would it be reasonable for me to file all of these as individual bugs?
Would it be helpful to have a tracker bug for crossgrading?
--
Matt
14 years, 7 months
Grub, Dual Boot
by Jim
Dual booting with WinXP and Fedora 11.
Hard Drive 0 sda1 WindowsXP
Hard Drive 1 sdb1 /boot Fedora 11
Isn't the command grub-install /dev/sda what you do to write grub to
boot from
sda ?
I ran that command from fedora 11 but it still wants to boot from
WindowsXP .
14 years, 7 months