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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Output text color (was dnf list color bad) (Samuel Sieb)
2. Bootable USB and a Windows ISO-file (Robin Lee)
3. Re: Bootable USB and a Windows ISO-file (Samuel Sieb)
4. Re: Bootable USB and a Windows ISO-file (Robin Lee)
5. Re: Bootable USB and a Windows ISO-file (Samuel Sieb)
6. Re: Output text color (was dnf list color bad) (Beartooth)
7. Re: Output text color (was dnf list color bad) (Samuel Sieb)
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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 11:43:01 -0700
From: Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net>
Subject: Re: Output text color (was dnf list color bad)
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On 7/5/20 10:52 AM, Beartooth wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Jul 2020 12:59:10 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> [....]
>> I'm pretty sure those are in /etc, not /etc/dnf. If they're in the
>> latter, can you confirm that and check what package provides them (rpm
>> -qf /etc/dnf/DIR_COLORS*)? I don't see anything providing them.
>
> You're right. My bad. They're in /etc. And I get # rpm -qf /etc/
> dnf/DIR_COLORS*
> error: file /etc/dnf/DIR_COLORS*: No such file or directory
But this is the wrong file anyway. The configuration for dnf colors is
in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf. See "man dnf.conf" for details, see the section
under "[MAIN] OPTIONS - COLORS".
> Am I remembering wrong? Istr that I could tell a given machine
> *once* that I want to see dot files, and it would *always* display them.
I don't know how you would do that. Maybe there's a config for ls or
you can add "-a" to the ls alias.
>> After you edit it, you must source /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh to pick up
>> the changes.
>
> "source" is a verb?? Sorry -- you lost me. What does it mean?
There's a bash command called "source" that executes the script file in
the current context. That means that any environment variables that are
set will stay in effect.
>> You can also copy the proper DIR_COLORS* file to your home dir to avoid
>> having a clean install overwrite your changes in /etc. The paths which
>> the colorls.sh script uses are:
>>
>> $HOME/.dir_colors.$TERM $HOME/.dircolors.$TERM $HOME/.dir_colors
>> $HOME/.dircolors
>>
>> The first one found is used.
>
> Sigh. The curse of the autodidact strikes again. I know that
> "HOME" in all upper case has a standard meaning, and I suppose
"TERM"
> must, too. But I can never remember what it is, nor where to look it up.
Those are environment variables. "HOME" contains the current home
directory and "TERM" contains the name of the current terminal emulation.
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Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2020 21:01:11 +0200
From: Robin Lee <robinlee(a)mailbox.org>
Subject: Bootable USB and a Windows ISO-file
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I'm trying to do a very simple task on my Fedora 32 desktop but somehow
I can't make it happen.
I've downloaded a Windows installer ISO-file from
microsoft.com that I
put on a USB-stick and tried to install Windows on physical machine,
but it won't boot from the USB. It shows up in the BIOS boot menu, but
it won't boot.
I've tried to install the same ISO-file in Boxes and that went fine.
I've tried both Brasero and Disk Image Writer, I've tried two different
USB-sticks and two different physical target machines.
What am I doing wrong? Or is this nefarious scheming by Linux to stop
people from experimenting with alternative operating systems?
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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 12:21:07 -0700
From: Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net>
Subject: Re: Bootable USB and a Windows ISO-file
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On 7/5/20 12:01 PM, Robin Lee wrote:
> I've downloaded a Windows installer ISO-file from
microsoft.com that I
> put on a USB-stick and tried to install Windows on physical machine,
> but it won't boot from the USB. It shows up in the BIOS boot menu, but
> it won't boot.
>
> I've tried to install the same ISO-file in Boxes and that went fine.
> I've tried both Brasero and Disk Image Writer, I've tried two different
> USB-sticks and two different physical target machines.
Boxes will make it a DVD drive, not USB.
Isn't Brasero only for writing to optical media? Anyway, I would just
use dd to write it to the flash drive.
In a terminal (change sdc to whatever your flash drive is):
sudo dd if=windows.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M status=progress
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Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2020 21:48:03 +0200
From: Robin Lee <robinlee(a)mailbox.org>
Subject: Re: Bootable USB and a Windows ISO-file
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On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 12:21 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 7/5/20 12:01 PM, Robin Lee wrote:
> > I've downloaded a Windows installer ISO-file from
microsoft.com
> > that I
> > put on a USB-stick and tried to install Windows on physical
> > machine,
> > but it won't boot from the USB. It shows up in the BIOS boot menu,
> > but
> > it won't boot.
> >
> > I've tried to install the same ISO-file in Boxes and that went
> > fine.
> > I've tried both Brasero and Disk Image Writer, I've tried two
> > different
> > USB-sticks and two different physical target machines.
>
> Boxes will make it a DVD drive, not USB.
>
> Isn't Brasero only for writing to optical media? Anyway, I would
> just
> use dd to write it to the flash drive.
>
> In a terminal (change sdc to whatever your flash drive is):
> sudo dd if=windows.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M status=progress
Same result.
Also tested creating a bootable USB-stick with a Centos ISO-file. No
problem.
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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 12:51:18 -0700
From: Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net>
Subject: Re: Bootable USB and a Windows ISO-file
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On 7/5/20 12:48 PM, Robin Lee wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 12:21 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>> On 7/5/20 12:01 PM, Robin Lee wrote:
>>> I've downloaded a Windows installer ISO-file from
microsoft.com
>>> that I
>>> put on a USB-stick and tried to install Windows on physical
>>> machine,
>>> but it won't boot from the USB. It shows up in the BIOS boot menu,
>>> but
>>> it won't boot.
>>>
>>> I've tried to install the same ISO-file in Boxes and that went
>>> fine.
>>> I've tried both Brasero and Disk Image Writer, I've tried two
>>> different
>>> USB-sticks and two different physical target machines.
>>
>> Boxes will make it a DVD drive, not USB.
>>
>> Isn't Brasero only for writing to optical media? Anyway, I would
>> just
>> use dd to write it to the flash drive.
>>
>> In a terminal (change sdc to whatever your flash drive is):
>> sudo dd if=windows.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M status=progress
>
> Same result.
>
> Also tested creating a bootable USB-stick with a Centos ISO-file. No
> problem.
Maybe that file can't be booted from usb. Are there any instructions
from Microsoft about how to do it? I know I have done it a couple of
times in the past.
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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 19:58:09 -0000 (UTC)
From: Beartooth <Beartooth(a)comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Output text color (was dnf list color bad)
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On Sun, 05 Jul 2020 11:43:01 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
[....]
> But this is the wrong file anyway. The configuration for dnf colors is
> in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf. See "man dnf.conf" for details, see the section
> under "[MAIN] OPTIONS - COLORS".
Well, as /etc/dnf/dnf.conf I see only this:
[main]
gpgcheck=1
installonly_limit=3
clean_requirements_on_remove=True
best=False
skip_if_unavailable=True
I'll make a separate post for the rest, with effusive thanks for
the clarifications.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 13:01:44 -0700
From: Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net>
Subject: Re: Output text color (was dnf list color bad)
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On 7/5/20 12:58 PM, Beartooth wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Jul 2020 11:43:01 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> [....]
>> But this is the wrong file anyway. The configuration for dnf colors is
>> in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf. See "man dnf.conf" for details, see the section
>> under "[MAIN] OPTIONS - COLORS".
>
> Well, as /etc/dnf/dnf.conf I see only this:
If you want to override the default values, you need to add them there
as described in the man page.
> I'll make a separate post for the rest, with effusive thanks for
> the clarifications.
Ok, if you can't figure it out, then I'll reply there.
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