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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 months
NFS causing slooooow boot
by Valent Turkovic
Hi,
I'm building custom Fedora remix with some packages from RPMFusion and
updated Fedora packages. Last Live USB image I created booted really
slow (over 5 minutes). I tracked down the issue to nfs service. Even
when this ISO image is used for installing Fedora to HDD the same
issue is present.
After stopping nfs service boot time was around 30 seconds!
Did anybody else experience this issue?
Cheers.
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14 years, 6 months
reorganizing /home's
by Michael Hennebry
I'm dual booting F9 and F11.
There is a partition that mounts on F9:/home and on F11:/home.
I suspect that my ~/.* directories are stepping on each other.
I want to reorganize so that the to-be-former home partition
mounts on F9:/homes and on F11:/homes.
F9:/home would be a symbolic link to /homes/F9.
F11:/home would be a symbolic link to /homes/F11.
User fred would have home directories with canonical names
/homes/F9/fred and /homes/F11/fred .
Each would have a symbolic link to /homes/fred,
his old home directory.
Once upon a time, I would boot from a live CD,
reorganize the directories, and edit the fstabs.
IIRC fstabs now get rewritten at boot time.
Mere hand editing won't do the trick.
What will do the trick?
Also, is there a way to use labels instead of those awful UUIDs?
I concede their usefullness if one has
a lot of disks or a lot of turnover.
I have four disks.
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14 years, 6 months
xine mplayer fc11 x64
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
Trying to install mplayer I get the conflicting package:
rpm -Uvh /tmp/faad2-libs-2.7-1.fc11.x86_64.rpm
warning: /tmp/faad2-libs-2.7-1.fc11.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256
signature: NOKEY, key ID 8fcff4da
Preparing... ###########################################
[100%]
file /usr/lib64/libfaad.so.2.0.0 from install of
faad2-libs-1:2.7-1.fc11.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
libfaad2-1:2.7-16.fc11.x86_6
rpm -qf /usr/lib64/libfaad.so.2.0.0
libfaad2-2.7-16.fc11.x86_64
It seems that libfaad.so.2 be delivered by 2 different pacakges !
Are they the same ?
Should I just use --nodeps ?
Thank.
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14 years, 6 months
evolution to exchange server
by L
Hi,
I am looking for information how to connect evolution to MS exchange
mail server. The institute switched the mail server to MS exchange.
The temporary solution is outlook on XP on VirtualBox, but this is
not preferable. Any help is great.
L
14 years, 6 months
CF and Swapless Fedora
by Marco Devillers
Hi all, I own a Macbook Air and have been running FC9 for a while on that,
it is my development machine.
The HD committed suicide.
Now, I think I'll opt to replace the HD with a CF in SATA mounted drive.
Two questions:
1. How big should the CF be?
2. How can I change Fedora such that it will use part of the ram memory for
swap?
All responses appreciated, thanks.
14 years, 6 months
Going from ODF to MSOffice
by Paul F. Johnson
Hi,
The powers that be want me off my nice clean and completely functional OS onto
that pile of ik from MS and part of that is getting my stuff from ODF to
Office (not sure if it's 2007 or 2003).
I know that I can export as MS Office, or do a bulk import of MS Office to ODF
via OOo, but can't do a bulk ODF to MS Office convert.
Is there a way to do this? Don't mind if it need another package.
Please don't say OOo is available for Win32 - I know it is, but the powers
that want me on Office :-(. Anyone who says Office2007 SP2 can import ODF,
please don't. It can't correct. It makes a mess of it!
TTFN
Paul
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14 years, 6 months