Windows 7 to Windows 10 in a KVM success!
by Tom Horsley
I've been running a Windows 7 KVM virtual machine for
a while with a Fedora 22 host, and I found lots of
conflicting info on the web about the possibility
of installing the Windows 10 upgrade in a KVM.
After taking great care to preserve the original
Windows 7 image file, I gave the upgrade a whirl
and it seems to have worked OK for me.
Full story at:
http://tomhorsley.com/misc/windows10-kvm.html
Now it won't constantly badger me about upgrading :-).
8 years, 4 months
Language Problems - system is in English but commands work in Spanish
by Javier Perez
Hi
My system is supposed to be in English, but all the commands at the console
level give feedback in Spanish.
How can I troubleshoot this?
[root@bloody ~]# export
declare -x HISTCONTROL="ignoredups"
declare -x HISTSIZE="1000"
declare -x HOME="/root"
declare -x HOSTNAME="bloody.localdomain"
declare -x KDEDIRS="/usr"
declare -x KDE_IS_PRELINKED="1"
declare -x LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
declare -x LANGUAGE="en_US:es"
declare -x LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
declare -x LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
declare -x LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
declare -x LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
......
[root@bloody ~]# dnf update
Última comprobación de caducidad de metadatos hecha hace 1:21:53, el Sun
Dec 27 10:55:20 2015.
Dependencias resueltas.
Nada por hacer.
¡Listo!
This is weird!
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8 years, 4 months
An Exercise: Manually creating a new boot disk from an existing one
by Philip Rhoades
People,
I am interested to see if it is possible to boot on an existing disk -
say /dev/sda ("A") - and then manually create everything required on a
second disk - /dev/sdb ("B") eg:
- create the partition table and partitions on B
- dd the existing boot track(s) from A to a file and then dd that to B -
or create it from scratch somehow?
- rsync the the first level directories into the appropriate places on
the new drive and partitions (maybe by temporarily booting on a Live USB
so we are not copying from a running system?)
If this is possible, what else would need to be done on B so that when
drive A is removed, the remaining B (the new "A") drive will be able to
boot and run normally?
Thanks!
Phil.
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Philip Rhoades
PO Box 896
Cowra NSW 2794
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
8 years, 4 months
Re: An Exercise: Manually creating a new boot disk from an existing one
by Philip Rhoades
Timothy,
> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 10:36:36 +0100
> From: Timothy Murphy <gayleard(a)eircom.net>
> To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: An Exercise: Manually creating a new boot disk from an
> existing one
> Message-ID: <n5obf4$4st$1(a)ger.gmane.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
>
> Philip Rhoades wrote:
>
>> I am interested to see if it is possible to boot on an existing disk -
>> say /dev/sda ("A") - and then manually create everything required on a
>> second disk - /dev/sdb ("B") eg:
>>
>> - create the partition table and partitions on B
>>
>> - dd the existing boot track(s) from A to a file and then dd that to B
>> -
>> or create it from scratch somehow?
>>
>> - rsync the the first level directories into the appropriate places on
>> the new drive and partitions (maybe by temporarily booting on a Live
>> USB
>> so we are not copying from a running system?)
>>
>> If this is possible, what else would need to be done on B so that when
>> drive A is removed, the remaining B (the new "A") drive will be able
>> to
>> boot and run normally?
>
>
> Presumably you would have to (at least)
> 1. Correct /etc/fstab
> 2. Install grub on second disk
Ah yes, of course . . I might give it a go . .
Thanks!
Phil.
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Philip Rhoades
PO Box 896
Cowra NSW 2794
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
8 years, 4 months
no grub after installing fedora23
by Walter Cazzola
Dear Fedora Experts,
I' ve recently bought a new Dell Precision m6800 and today I was trying to
install Fedora 23 in dual boot with windows 7 (this was the OS originally
on the machine).
I' ve run the installer from the live CD and after a couple of wrong
attempts I successfully finished the installation process without errors or
at least apparently without errors.
I' ve restarted the machine I got into the following error message:
*file "/boot/grub2/i386-pc/normal.mod" NOT FOUND grub rescue>*
neither windows nor fedora boot.
Booting again from the live cd I got that ever the partition are there:
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 63 80324 80262 39.2M de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 81920 25710591 25628672 12.2G 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda3 25710592 201408511 175697920 83.8G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 201408512 1953523711 1752115200 835.5G 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 201410560 202776575 1366016 667M 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 202778624 307636223 104857600 50G 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 307638272 341192703 33554432 16G 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/sda8 341194752 351680511 10485760 5G 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 351682560 360071167 8388608 4G 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 360073216 368461823 8388608 4G 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 368463872 371609599 3145728 1.5G 6 FAT16
/dev/sda12 371611648 1953523711 1581912064 754.3G 83 Linux
where sda1-3 are the original windows partitions, sda5 is /boot and sda6 is
/
I' ve mounted the /boot partition and inside grub2 there is not i386-pc dir
nor the normal.mod file. I' ve tried to manually copy
/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod into /boot/grub2 but the only difference I
got is that the boot is stucked on
grub>
So what I have to do to fix the situation and be able to run both windows
and linux?
thank you in advance for your help.
Walter
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8 years, 4 months
firefox 42.0 does not play youtube video
by François Patte
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Bonjour,
Everything is in the subject....
I don't know exactly since when youtube videos can't be played in
firefox on my machine (fedora 21): I can see the first image of the
video, the slider works normaly, but the video is not played....
Is it a bug or do I need some extra plugin?
Thank you.
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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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8 years, 4 months
recent apache timeout changes?
by Tom Horsley
Anyone know if the default values for timing out
recently changed in some httpd update on fedora?
I used to be able to "stream" recordings to MX Player
on my tablet by just providing the video files as
http links.
Sometime in the last few weeks though, MX Player
started cutting off the recording after about 10 minutes
(as though it believed it hit the end).
I have just found every apache directive with timeout
and keep alive in the name and changed them all to
huge values, and MX Player is no longer having a
problem, so one of them must have changed default
values.
Just wondering if anyone knows which one (out of
nothing more than idle curiosity).
8 years, 4 months
Fedora on Shield Tablet
by Jeandet Alexis
Hi,
Does any one tried to install fedora on a Shield Tablet? I have a
jetson tk1 where it works well an the procedure is easy but I didn't
found anything for shield tablet.
Best regards,
Alexis.
8 years, 4 months
alt + above_tab changes work-spaces, how to disable?
by Digimer
Hi all,
With Fedora 23 using the "Power Alt+Tab" extension, <alt> + <~> and
<super> + <~> (~ == 'above_tab'), gnome cycles through the work spaces
instead of the other windows in the active application. This wasn't the
case in Fedora 22.
Does anyone know how to disable the workspace cycling? I tried looking
in dconf-editor -> org > gnome > desktop > wm > keybindings without
luck. I am not sure how to look into how extensions work, and I realize
this might be an issue with the extension instead of gnome itself. If
that is the case, any pointer on how to look into extensions would be
much appreciated, too.
Thanks for any help! This is making me pull my hair out...
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8 years, 4 months