F13 install from netinst.iso ERROR: The installer has tried to mount image #1.
by Richard Shaw
I'm trying to install F13 on my netbook although I had a problem
similar to this when installing to my desktop.
I've got the F13 netinst.iso (i386) installed to a 1GB flash drive
using the livecd tools. It boots fine, anaconda runs, but right after
wiring the partitions and filesystems to disk I get this error:
The installer has tried to mount image #1, but cannot find it on the hard drive.
Please copy this image to the hard drive and click Retry.
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Isn't the netinst method supposed to be smart enough to go to the net
for the install files? I mean it's part of the name of the image!
I tired the "askmethod" way but then it wanted to download the
install.img as well which is already on the flash drive.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Richard
13 years, 11 months
VirtualBox-OSE and new kernels (rawhide)
by Paul F. Johnson
Hi,
Trying to get VirtualBox-OSE to run with the current rawhide kernel
(2.6.34-11.fc14.i686) and it's complaining that it can't find the
vboxdrv, vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp modules.
Has anyone got it running with newer rawhide kernels? I've got it happy
with 2.6.34-0.49.rc7.git0.fc14.i686.PAE on my main box, but nothing
newer.
TTFN
Paul
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Biggles was quietly reading his favourite book when Algy burst through
the door. Distracted for a moment, Biggles surveyed what had happened
and turned a page. "Algy old man" he said, clearing his throat, "use the
handle next time..." - Taken from "Biggles combs his Hair"
13 years, 11 months
Recover stupid mistake
by Mike Martin
Hi when I was trying (and failing) to get a bootable pen-drive, with
the F13 live image I accidentally did the following
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1
which returned nearly immediately and now I have no data on the disk.
The disk is 750 gig , of which about 400 is used. I am hoping that
only the partition table is gone, if not is there any way to recover
from my disaster
13 years, 11 months
Record "Stereo Mix" (what you hear) from PulseAudio
by Jorge Fábregas
Hello everyone,
I'm on Fedora 12 and I'm using an internal soundcard (HDA-Intel) which doesn't
provide, as an input source, the so called "Stereo Mix" (the audio that comes
out of your speakers). I simply would like to record from it for applications
like Audacity and recordmydesktop.
Apparently, one might achieve this by using PulseAudio (by grabbing the
audio stream from the originating apps before they reach your output device,
etc). I installed the "PulseAudio Volume Control" app but it isn't that much
different from the GNOME Sound Preferences. I couldn't find a way to manipulate
the application streams (no right-click etc). At this point I'm clueless :(
Is there an easy way to achieve this by using the default Fedora-12 sound-
system setup (without introducing Jack etc)?
Thanks!
Regards,
Jorge
13 years, 11 months
F13 installation via yum
by Luc MAIGNAN
Hi,
I want to upgrade my system from F12 to F13 and I don't have enough
space in /boot to use preupgrade.
I found several days ago a howto that explains how to install with yum
(even it is not supported...). But unfortunaly, I can't find it anymore.
Can someone tell me where it is ? Or give me an alternate howto ?
Regards
13 years, 11 months
preupgrade: not enough space again
by Alan Evans
Preupgrade is complaining that I don't have enough space in
/boot/upgrade. How much space is needed? Preupgrade is not telling me.
It *did* tell me that I could continue if I had a wired network
connection. I do have, so I continued; and then after finally
downloading all the packages (much time) and rebooting it apparently
couldn't find the driver for my network card. Bother.
Cancelling at that point and rebooting did bring back my F12, so that
was good. But I've cleaned out boot as much as I think possible and
still there's not enough space.
I thought this was done to death during the last upgrade cycle. And I
think I have a non-upgraded install of F12 on this machine, yet /boot
is still too small for preupgrade to work! Ack!
Will this work if I go buy a generic network card? Apparently the one
already installed (and that I'm using now) is no good for the
installer.
-Alan
13 years, 11 months
Power management capacity dialog removed in F13
by Sam Varshavchik
In F12, the left mouse button over the battery icon opened a dropped down
menu with a "Laptop battery" menu entry. Selecting the menu entry opened a
small dialog with the battery's details, specifically the battery's current
capacity, in watts, its original capacity, in watts, and its current charge,
in watts. Also its manufacturer's name. Basically, a few more details than a
single capacity percentage.
In F13, selecting "Laptop battery" from the same menu, does nothing. That
information is no longer being shown. Why?
Once a day, or so, F12's power management applet went haywire on me, and for
some reason insisted that my battery's capacity is somewhere around a
thousand watts. Its current charge still showed correctly, but because of
the huge capacity, the applet was showing the battery at a ridiculous 1-2%
capacity level. When that happened, I could always open the battery dialog,
get its actual charge in watts, and have a pretty good idea how much juice
there's left in my battery.
So far, F13's power management applet has not lost its mind, and is
apparently reading the battery capacity correctly, but if it goes bonkers
again, I won't have a good read on my battery.
Anyone know why the battery information dialog has been removed?
13 years, 11 months
Tex and F13 - help please
by Genes MailLists
I see that F13 still has texlive 2007 which is too old for me to use
and collaborate with my colleagues.
So I will install the rpm's from CPAN - the downside is for some reason
R requires the fedora texlive to install and I need R too ...
Can someone help me make and RPM or something that tells R the texlive
packages are already installed and not to keep trying installing them ?
On f12 i installed R from their downloads too .. but while texlive is
easy to manage using the updater, R is a pain in the back and the fedora
packages make life a lot simpler.
Thanks for any suggestions
13 years, 12 months
"yum grouplist" under Fedora-13
by Timothy Murphy
I recently installed Fedora-13 on my laptop from the KDE Live CD,
keeping my old /home partition.
I see that "sudo yum grouplist" gives a bizarre collection
of yum-groups I am said to have installed,
eg an odd collection of languages including Bhutani and Konkani.
Also "Authoring and Publishing" was said to be installed,
but does not appear to be.
Is "yum grouplist" obsolete?
Or was this a bye-product of my installation method?
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
13 years, 12 months
some i686 libraries for Fedora 13 x64 missing
by n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
I assume the missing i686 libraries for Fedora 13 x64 are in the
pipeline. This caused me a few minor headaches, but could be more like
migraines to those less experienced. Otherwise Fedora 13 seems fine, and
I'll start on kdevelop 4 usage, which I've been long anticipating.
Regards
JB
13 years, 12 months