Re: help installing f16

2012-04-21 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012, Mike Wright wrote: It is not a vm taking down the host. It is I who must shutdown every vm in order to boot onto "bare metal" without a hypervisor. That is required because livecd technology will not install into a virtual machine. The only way I know to install into a

Re: help installing f16

2012-04-21 Thread Mike Wright
On 04/21/2012 12:39 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.04.2012 21:15, schrieb Mike Wright: On 04/21/2012 12:06 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.04.2012 21:02, schrieb Mike Wright: i have not tried but how should the "live cd technology" even know that it runs in a VM? I can't speak with auth

Re: help installing f16

2012-04-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.04.2012 21:15, schrieb Mike Wright: > On 04/21/2012 12:06 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> >> Am 21.04.2012 21:02, schrieb Mike Wright: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I downloaded the f16 install DVD (6.5 hours) and have been trying to >>> install it to an lvm partition that is part of >>> a Xen box.

Re: help installing f16

2012-04-21 Thread Mike Wright
On 04/21/2012 12:06 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.04.2012 21:02, schrieb Mike Wright: Hi all, I downloaded the f16 install DVD (6.5 hours) and have been trying to install it to an lvm partition that is part of a Xen box. Two days later I'm asking for help. Hope this doesn't sound like a r

Re: help installing f16 -> bott with "noefi" / "nogpt"

2012-04-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.04.2012 21:02, schrieb Mike Wright: > Created 10g mount point / ext4 and 1g swap. Press . "Partitioning > Errors. You have not created a bootloader > stage 1 target device". Just peachy. What does it want? Where is that > done? Tried adding a /boot partition that > will never be use

Re: help installing f16

2012-04-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.04.2012 21:02, schrieb Mike Wright: > Hi all, > > I downloaded the f16 install DVD (6.5 hours) and have been trying to install > it to an lvm partition that is part of > a Xen box. Two days later I'm asking for help. > > Hope this doesn't sound like a rant but I'm very frustrated. This

help installing f16

2012-04-21 Thread Mike Wright
Hi all, I downloaded the f16 install DVD (6.5 hours) and have been trying to install it to an lvm partition that is part of a Xen box. Two days later I'm asking for help. Hope this doesn't sound like a rant but I'm very frustrated. This is a description of what I've been going through with

Re: syslogd in F-16 -

2012-04-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.04.2012 19:36, schrieb Bob Goodwin - Zuni: > On 04/21/2012 01:19 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: >> Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: >>> DD-wrt has a logging function which I am unable to make work per: >>> http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Logging_with_DD-WRT since it >>> apparently

Re: syslogd in F-16 -

2012-04-21 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 04/21/2012 01:19 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: DD-wrt has a logging function which I am unable to make work per: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Logging_with_DD-WRT since it apparently needs syslogd which has been replaced with syslog-ng if I unders

Re: syslogd in F-16 -

2012-04-21 Thread Todd Zullinger
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: DD-wrt has a logging function which I am unable to make work per: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Logging_with_DD-WRT since it apparently needs syslogd which has been replaced with syslog-ng if I understand what I've found. That page is referring

syslogd in F-16 -

2012-04-21 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
DD-wrt has a logging function which I am unable to make work per: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Logging_with_DD-WRT since it apparently needs syslogd which has been replaced with syslog-ng if I understand what I've found. Is there a way to deal with this

Re: nouveau tv-out

2012-04-21 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 04/19/2012 08:40 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Konstantin Svist writes: I tried connecting a laptop s-video out to a tv last night but couldn't see a software option for it anywhere. Most laptops have a key combination to activate external video. Running Fedora 16 x64 XFCE with nouveau drive

Re: ifcfg-ethX voodoo for a second IP on the same interface

2012-04-21 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Ed Greshko writes: On 04/21/2012 01:41 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > You're right about the doc and NetworkManager... I had to set it to no > > and bring down the service to make it work... But then I'm using F17 > > beta so maybe NM is broken??? No, AFAIK, NM won't handle that type of configuration

Cross-grading from i686 to x86_64: it is possible (but unsupported)

2012-04-21 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Hi, after reading a lot of advice about not doing it, and only a couple of reports from guys who did it, I finally decided to try to cross-grade my Fedora installation from i686 to x86_64. Everyone says you should just reinstall; they probably do not value their customizations. My system has been