Live USB: Persistent Overlay full so system won't boot. Snapshot Invalid

2014-06-01 Thread Rahul Nabar
I accidentally managed to fill up the live-rw overlay and now my system won't boot. It falls to the dracut emergency shell complaining that it cannot mount the root partition. Logs say: EXT-4-fs (dm-0): unable to read superblock SQUASHFS error: squashfs read data failed to read block 0x0 unable t

Re: Volume too low on F20 (32bit)

2014-06-01 Thread Someone
On 06/02/2014 09:23 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Hello, > > After a fresh install of Fedora 20, 32bit, and adding enough packages to > watch YouTube videos, I have sound (for both the YouTube videos and for > Clanbomber), but the volume is way too low, almost inaudible. > > I have a vol

Re: Adding minimal X windows

2014-06-01 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Sunday, June 01, 2014 02:53:52 PM Matthew Saltzman wrote: > I built a Fedora 20 system as a server, without a desktop. It turns > out, no X server is installed at all in that case. I'd like to add a > minimal X server without adding a complete desktop environment, so I can > log in remotely an

Volume too low on F20 (32bit)

2014-06-01 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, After a fresh install of Fedora 20, 32bit, and adding enough packages to watch YouTube videos, I have sound (for both the YouTube videos and for Clanbomber), but the volume is way too low, almost inaudible. I have a volume setting widget on the lower panel and I set volume to maxi

mailinglist issues (Was: Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?)

2014-06-01 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Ed Greshko writes: > On 06/01/14 10:14, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > > > Off topic. Is this email sent from your personal email server? > I am asking because Google shows a warning that they can't verify > if this message was sent by the wsrcc.com. > > You get this warning because

Re: Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?

2014-06-01 Thread Doug
On 06/01/2014 04:52 PM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 01 June 2014, Oliver Ruebenacker sent: For sure, I couldn't mount the Fedora DVDs, but I'm not sure whether Windows XP is supposed to be able to do that anyway. Yes, it can. They're just a bootable disc with files on them. Have you

mailing list errors (was: Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?)

2014-06-01 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Sudhir Khanger writes: > Off topic. Is this email sent from your personal email server? I am > asking because Google shows a warning that they can't verify if this > message was sent by the wsrcc.com. Sudhir, thanks for noticing and speaking up! Not totally off topic. The issue is that the ma

Re: Samsung ML-2165W printer help

2014-06-01 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 01 June 2014, Mike Wright sent: > Cups isn't being very helpful here either. Almost anything > administrator related tells me "Forbidden", but nowhere can I find a > way to "Login" to it. In past times, as soon as you tried to do something that required privileges, the CU

Re: Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?

2014-06-01 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 01 June 2014, Oliver Ruebenacker sent: > For sure, I couldn't mount the Fedora DVDs, but I'm not sure whether > Windows XP is supposed to be able to do that anyway. Yes, it can. They're just a bootable disc with files on them. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.

Re: Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?

2014-06-01 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, Yay, I was able to install 32-bit Fedora 20 with KDE on my old machine via netinstal CD, even in less than an hour. So far, runs fine, although certainly not blazing fast. I think the problem was that my optical drive is somehow limited in what it can do with DVDs. I very vaguely

Re: Adding minimal X windows

2014-06-01 Thread Derrik Walker v2.0
On 06/01/2014 02:12 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Sun, 2014-06-01 at 11:24 -0400, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote: I usually just intall xterm. It will get the minimum you need. If you want a window manager as well as min X, install it too ( I usually us fvwm for cases like that ). Installing xterm

Re: Samsung ML-2165W printer help

2014-06-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/01/2014 10:33 AM, Arthur Dent wrote: If it doesn't check that cups is running (as root: "systemctl status cups.service"). Just wanted to note that systemctl doesn't need root for that. You only need root to make changes, such as enable/disable/start/stop. -- users mailing list users@li

Re: Samsung ML-2165W printer help

2014-06-01 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > Check this list archives, I remember ranting against this printer and > SamsungĀ“s packaging of its linux drivers. The thread subject line was : "Samsung laser drivers for Linux - thinking aloud" https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/

Re: Adding minimal X windows

2014-06-01 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sun, 2014-06-01 at 11:24 -0400, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote: > I usually just intall xterm. It will get the minimum you need. If > you want a window manager as well as min X, install it too ( I usually > us fvwm for cases like that ). Installing xterm doesn't work. Apparently, for many of these

Re: Samsung ML-2165W printer help

2014-06-01 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Mike Wright wrote: > Note: there is no such named package and their is neither a file named > "cdroot" nor one named "autorun". Check this list archives, I remember ranting against this printer and SamsungĀ“s packaging of its linux drivers. As far as I remember, dri

Re: Samsung ML-2165W printer help

2014-06-01 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sun, 2014-06-01 at 09:39 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > Just bought the Samsung ML-2165W/XAC printer because it advertised Linux > support. Downloaded and installed the driver (it claims installation > successful). > > The user manual seems to be flat out wrong. The Linux install

Re: Samsung ML-2165W printer help

2014-06-01 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 06/01/14 12:39, Mike Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > Just bought the Samsung ML-2165W/XAC printer because it advertised Linux > support. Downloaded and installed the driver (it claims installation > successful). > > The user manual seems to be flat out wrong. The Linux install > directions seem

Re: Samsung ML-2165W printer help

2014-06-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.06.2014, Mike Wright wrote: > Just bought the Samsung ML-2165W/XAC printer because it advertised Linux > support. [] > Has anybody else had any success with this particular printer model? Just return the crap to Samsung. Don't waste time. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproj

Samsung ML-2165W printer help

2014-06-01 Thread Mike Wright
Hi all, Just bought the Samsung ML-2165W/XAC printer because it advertised Linux support. Downloaded and installed the driver (it claims installation successful). The user manual seems to be flat out wrong. The Linux install directions seem to be for Windows. " When

Re: Adding minimal X windows

2014-06-01 Thread Derrik Walker v2.0
I usually just intall xterm. It will get the minimum you need. If you want a window manager as well as min X, install it too ( I usually us fvwm for cases like that ). - Derrik On Jun 1, 2014 10:54 AM, "Matthew Saltzman" wrote: > I built a Fedora 20 system as a server, without a desktop. It t

Adding minimal X windows

2014-06-01 Thread Matthew Saltzman
I built a Fedora 20 system as a server, without a desktop. It turns out, no X server is installed at all in that case. I'd like to add a minimal X server without adding a complete desktop environment, so I can log in remotely and run system configuration tools. The documentation I've found sugge

Re: Caching nameserver for home network

2014-06-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 06/01/2014 08:00 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: I'm trying to set up a caching name server on a server on my home network. All the instructions I've been able to find online refer to the caching-nameserver RPM, but that doesn't seem to be available in Fedora 20. So my questions are: * W

Re: Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?

2014-06-01 Thread nomnex
> On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 07:35:43 -0400 > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Try LiveCD and see if it will boot without trying to install. And see bug comment 4 or 21 if you are low on RAM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708966 -- nomnex Freenode: nomnex Registered Linux user #505281. Be co

Caching nameserver for home network

2014-06-01 Thread Matthew Saltzman
I'm trying to set up a caching name server on a server on my home network. All the instructions I've been able to find online refer to the caching-nameserver RPM, but that doesn't seem to be available in Fedora 20. So my questions are: * What happened to caching-nameserver? * What (

Re: Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?

2014-06-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Try LiveCD and see if it will boot without trying to install. There is one possible issue in that the base is really i686 these days and you really might be too old of a processor. On 06/01/2014 07:19 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Hello, I downloaded and verified the DVD image for Fe

Re: Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?

2014-06-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 05/31/2014 04:36 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Hello, I need a new OS for an old computer, an about 10 years old x86. I upgraded RAM from 500MB to 2GB, though Windows XP reports 1.99 GB. I would have installed Fedora, but they say the requirements are at least 4GB RAM. Is t

Re: Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?

2014-06-01 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, I downloaded and verified the DVD image for Fedora 20, 32bit. Burned two DVDs already, but neither will boot. I get a black screen with a blinking cursor in the corner for a while, and then it will skip the DVD. If I disable all other boot devices, it will say no OS has been found.

Re: Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?

2014-06-01 Thread Roger
Just try - Fedora 20 installed fine on all 2GB RAM machines, I've tried. Yep, I too run Fedora 20 x86_64 on my 2gig memory desktop and on the 2 gig Dell 1520 laptop. Installed no problems, works a treat. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription o