Unconventional F10 installation
by John Wendel
I'd like to install F10 on a tiny box that has only a compact flash disk
(ide interface) and a network interface. I tried cobbler, but it died
with some strange python runtime error, so a network install is out (I'm
too lazy to learn how to setup a PXE server).
Is it possible to do an install by running the installer as a regular
program?
If I can't use the installer, can I move the CF disk to another F10 box
and just copy the installation files. Is there any reason this won't
work? After the files are copied, is there anything needed besides a
grub install?
Thanks,
John
15 years, 1 month
Web cam recommendations?
by thomas cameron
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Howdy -
I travel a pretty fair amount - over 115 nights in hotels in 2008.
I use Skype on Linux (both Fedora and RHEL) and I would love to be able
to use the web cam feature so I can see my kids before they go to bed.
Anyone got a known good web cam for this? I've never owned a web cam so
this is completely new territory for me.
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Thanks!
Thomas
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15 years, 1 month
Fedora 10 login screen
by Margaret Doll
I tried adding
[greeter]
Browser=false
to /etc/gdm/custom.conf to change the login screen. This made no
changes in the screen.
Is there a gdmsetup or "Login screen setup" program? If so, in which
rpm is it located?
On Feb 4, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Margaret Doll wrote:
> How can I change the login screen? I either want to remove the
> partial list of users on the systems or extend the list to all the
> users.
15 years, 1 month
pf packet filter on F9
by Dave Feustel
Can pf be used on F9?
Would there be any advantage or disadvantage in doing so?
Thanks.
15 years, 1 month
Resizing NTFS partition to make room for FC10
by Tod Thomas
I know this is a little off topic. I did google around looking for the
correct forum to post this question but had little luck. If anyone can
make an informed suggestion I'd very much appreciate it.
I have a 150GB ATA disk, /dev/hdb, containing winxp. I'd like to move
the contents to an spare 80GB ATA disk, /dev/hda, to make room for a
full install of FC10 on the larger disk in preparation for ultimately
getting the winxp install running under a linux based VM.
From knoppix, I started by using ntfsresize to shrink the xp partition
down to 20GB. That worked suprisingly fine.
I then installed the smaller drive and used dd to copy over the image of
the xp installation: dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=10000000 count=2000
I rebooted and voila! it worked - sort of. The new disk boots xp but it
still, according to fdisk, thinks its 150GB. So I used fdisk to delete
and redefine the xp partition (primary, bootable type=7) with the new
size of the drive, 20GB. After rebooting xp came up but then started
quickly blue screening a message I couldn't read, and rebooting. This
repeated in a loop until I just rebooted. I tried the whole process
over again but this time specified 80GB to dd and fdisk, same disaster.
I tried everything again, but this time instead of fdisk I fired up
gparted to see if I could resize from there hoping that if it could some
magic would also fix the invalid sizing detected by fdisk. gparted
could see the drive but couldn't recognize it as having anything it
could work with. I highlighted the drive and the progress bar stayed gray.
So far it seems I can use the drive this way without causing xp any
problems. The issue is things just don't look right and I suspect it
will come back to bite me one day. I'm not an expert at manipulating
bits on a hard drive just yet. Could someone point me to my error? Is
what I'm trying do-able? If its a conceptual problem a little education
would come in handy too.
Thanks in advance - Tod
15 years, 1 month
totem not able to render youtube video
by Peter Teoh
I have been trying to view the youtube videos but have encountered the
following bugs in totem (F10, x86 32bit, 2.6.29-rc3 kernel), and have
almost updated exhausted all the resources I can find on the Internet
(let me know if u want any rpm -qa):
/root/kiv>** (totem:27303): DEBUG: Init of Python module
** (totem:27303): DEBUG: Registering Python plugin instance:
PythonConsolePlugin+TotemPythonPlugin
** (totem:27303): DEBUG: Creating object of type
PythonConsolePlugin+TotemPythonPlugin
** (totem:27303): DEBUG: Creating Python plugin instance
** (totem:27303): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for
org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name
'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name
** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-flv
** Message: Error: A Flash demuxer plugin is required to play this
stream, but not installed.
gstdecodebin.c(904): close_pad_link ():
/GstPlayBin:play/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0:
No decoder to handle media type 'video/x-flv'
** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|Flash
demuxer|decoder-video/x-flv (Flash demuxer)
** Message: PackageKit: xid = 77594627
** Message: PackageKit: Codec nice name: Flash demuxer
** Message: PackageKit: structure: gstreamer0.10(decoder-video/x-flv)
** Message: PackageKit: Did not install codec: The name
org.freedesktop.PackageKit was not provided by any .service files
** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found.
** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-flv
** Message: Error: A Flash demuxer plugin is required to play this
stream, but not installed.
gstdecodebin.c(904): close_pad_link ():
/GstPlayBin:play/GstDecodeBin:decodebin1:
No decoder to handle media type 'video/x-flv'
** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|Flash
demuxer|decoder-video/x-flv (ignoring)
** Message: All missing plugins are blacklisted, doing nothing
** (totem:27303): DEBUG: Finalizing Python plugin instance
Thank you very much.
--
Regards,
Peter Teoh
15 years, 1 month
Setting gnome-terminal default size
by Jonathan Ryshpan
Is there any way to make gnome-terminal have a default size of (say)
90 wide x 30 high, rather than the system default of 80x24? I am
getting tired of setting the size every time I start the system.
Thanks - jon
15 years, 1 month
My fedora freeze it
by Jose Severino
i have Fedora 10 with GNOME, and all my system freeze it after 10 or 20 minutes, what can i do?
i have a laptop HP Pavilion dv5-1147la
Sorry for my English
Thank you
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15 years, 1 month
linkage problem?
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
Now running F10. When I click on a link in an email that would normally go to
firefox, it is starting a fresh copy even though there is a copy running on
another window, AND it is opening two tabs of the new invocation in the new
copy of firefox, which of course opens on top of the window kmail is running
in.
When I was running F8, kmail simply handed the link to whatever firefox that
was running as it could just as easily been 2.0.0.19.
I note that in kontrol->file associations, there are often 2 copies of
firefox, presumably because when F10 installed itself, it installed 3.0.4
alongside the 3.0.6 install. I had yum remove the 3.0.4 version and then
relinked /usr/lib/firefox/firefox (the 3.0.6 install) to /usr/sbin/firefox
which I believe was the previous setup.
Any idea where to go looking for this? It is a bit of a PIMA.
Thanks all.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
I'll eat ANYTHING that's BRIGHT BLUE!!
15 years, 1 month
Re: Keyboard settings are lost after each reboot
by Danilo Câmara
> Dear All,
>
> After the last updates were installed, the settings of the layout of
> my keyboard does not survive to a reboot; I have to reset it to my
> language after each reboot. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul
Same thing happened here. Already seen in various machines, i386 and
x86_64.
The keyboards were configured during Fedora 10 installation and no
manual configuration in Xorg or GNOME. Everything was working fine until
last update. I guess the affecting updates were
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.5.3-13.fc10 or
xorg-x11-server-common-1.5.3-13.fc10.
Only affects the keyboard settings in the graphical mode (GNOME in my
case). Text mode still fine.
Regards
Danilo Camara
15 years, 1 month